Performance Testing Services
Bring a coach with you to your next swim workout and we’ll video record you. A coach will provide immediate feedback on your technique in the pool or in open water. Drills and workouts will be prescribed to you based on the session spent in the pool or open water. Video analysis is also available. Being able to watch yourself will give endless feedback about your position in the water and what improvements can be made.
Our pricing for a swimming assessment is $25/15 minutes, or $90/hour
SpinScan™ Pedal Stroke Analysis Test
SpinScan™ Pedal Stroke Analyzer is an exclusive feature of CompuTrainer and Velotron that helps you increase power and efficiency. The multi-color torque graph represents one full 360° revolution divided into 15° segments. The left/right leg percentage power splits give you the feedback needed to pedal in "circles". It will identify "flat" or "dead" spots in the pedal stroke where optimal power is not transferred to the drive train. A dynamic bike fit utilizing SpinScan™ is an excellent way to take the subjectivity and guesswork out of the bike fit process. And the ATA (Average Torque Angle) displayed on the Polar Graph helps you adjust your position for optimum power.
Our pricing for SpinScan™ Pedal Stroke Analysis Test is $150
Contact us about your chance to use the SpinScan™ Pedal Stroke Analysis Test
Power Test
Power is the ability to apply maximum force quickly and economically. It is the combination of force and speed-skills abilities. It is a product of how hard a cyclist pushes on the pedals and how fast they pedal. Testing for power (as well as heart rate and cadence with power) will accurately quantify your training load to train efficiently and race competitively.
This lab experience will give you estimated variables to use while training out in the field. While power (in watts) is the actual exercise stimulus, heart rate is the response to a stimulus. However, in the lab, we can determine estimated heart rate to power variables to determine your most efficient power to heart rate response, as well as cadence to power response. For real data out on the field, a Power Tap is the most powerful tool you can have. Lab data gives you information in a controlled setting, which can be transferred to training in the field. Moving one more step to using a Power Tap, you can train on the field and receive real data with field variables that can effect training variables, such as wind, elevation, dehydration, etc.
Ultimately, monitoring and evaluating power output during training will provide the most objective feedback about one's performance. In the end, accurate and reliable feedback is a critical aspect of any training program.
Physiological Base / VO2 Max testing
This physiological test will determine a number of very valuable training factors for you. This test will be able to accurately determine VO2 Max, anaerobic threshold, heart rate training zones, caloric output and resting metabolic rate.
The first value this test will determine is the maximum amount of oxygen you are capable of taking in at any given time. It measures your body’s aerobic potential. This numerical value represents the ability of your lungs, heart and circulatory system to deliver oxygen to working muscles; as well as determine the maximum amount of energy output (or work) your body can produce at peak performance. This test is measured in the amount of oxygen you can intake in Liter (or milliliters) per kilogram of body weight per minute (L/kg/min or mL/kg/min).
With the data received during this test, we will also be able to determine your anaerobic threshold (otherwise known as lactic threshold, or abbreviated as AT or LT). This value represents how efficiently your muscles use oxygen to produce energy. You’re your body is called upon to perform above your AT, lactic acid builds and will contribute to muscle fatigue, and then your ability to continue performing at that level becomes limited. You can increase AT through proper training. The closer your AT is to your VO2 Max value, the better your fitness level.
Heart rate zone testing has huge benefits in training programs and allowing you to reach your peak potential effectively and safely. This test will determine training intervals specific to your particular energy system. These zones are created to help you train along a continuum of energy systems from anaerobic to aerobic metabolic pathways. With these heart rate zones, you will be able to monitor your effort, pace, overall general feeling and signal red flags such as fatigue, stress, overstraining, under-recovery or impeding illness.
Caloric output and resting metabolic rate is also tested. These data can help in determining baseline measurements of daily caloric needs, and your optimum caloric needs for training, racing and recovery.
Included in this testing protocol is an evaluation of all data collected and the testing oxygen mask (which can be used for re-tests). If you are an uncoached client, after the tests, an overview of the test will be performed and how to utilize it in your training.
This test is available for biking.
Our pricing for physiological base / VO2 Max testing is $130
For more details about Physiological Base, please inquire here.
Running Gait Evaluation
Proper running form is essential to running success. Skills learned for running can improve your time, create an efficient running body, alleviate an injury, and prevent any injury from occurring. Spending an hour for an evaluation will teach your proper running mechanics, correct posture and balance. Muscle balance is also crucial for running, and this evaluation will give you the corrective exercises for creating a muscularly balanced body. Running could not be any easier!
Our pricing for running gait evaluation is $150
Physiological Base / VO2 Max testing
This physiological test will determine a number of very valuable training factors for you. This test will be able to accurately determine VO2 Max, anaerobic threshold, heart rate training zones, caloric output and resting metabolic rate.
The first value this test will determine is the maximum amount of oxygen you are capable of taking in at any given time. It measures your body’s aerobic potential. This numerical value represents the ability of your lungs, heart and circulatory system to deliver oxygen to working muscles; as well as determine the maximum amount of energy output (or work) your body can produce at peak performance. This test is measured in the amount of oxygen you can intake in Liter (or milliliters) per kilogram of body weight per minute (L/kg/min or mL/kg/min).
With the data received during this test, we will also be able to determine your anaerobic threshold (otherwise known as lactic threshold, or abbreviated as AT or LT). This value represents how efficiently your muscles use oxygen to produce energy. You’re your body is called upon to perform above your AT, lactic acid builds and will contribute to muscle fatigue, and then your ability to continue performing at that level becomes limited. You can increase AT through proper training. The closer your AT is to your VO2 Max value, the better your fitness level.
Heart rate zone testing has huge benefits in training programs and allowing you to reach your peak potential effectively and safely. This test will determine training intervals specific to your particular energy system. These zones are created to help you train along a continuum of energy systems from anaerobic to aerobic metabolic pathways. With these heart rate zones, you will be able to monitor your effort, pace, overall general feeling and signal red flags such as fatigue, stress, overstraining, under-recovery or impeding illness.
Caloric output and resting metabolic rate is also tested. These data can help in determining baseline measurements of daily caloric needs, and your optimum caloric needs for training, racing and recovery.
Included in this testing protocol is an evaluation of all data collected and the testing oxygen mask (which can be used for re-tests). If you are an uncoached client, after the tests, an overview of the test will be performed and how to utilize it in your training.
This test is available for running.
Our pricing for physiological base / VO2 Max testing is $130
For more details about Physiological Base, please inquire here.
Your body performs on the basis of neurological signals coming from the brain to your muscles. Having a solid pathway for these signals to fire is essential for muscular endurance, power, strength and agility. If these motor pathways are not fine-tuned and correct, then bad motor patterns will be developed, which can hinder performance and most likely create an injury.
A muscle balance assessment will make sure that your body is in top notch form to handle daily training demands. This is a comprehensive muscle balance assessment to ensure the best care and training for you. This assessment will help create an environment for your body to correctly absorb the stimulus of training, will allow your body to heal, and will allow it to prevent injury.
If you are dealing, or have dealt with aches, pains or injuries, they are only signals that your body is not in current muscular alignment. This assessment will teach you how to create an environment for your body to heal and prevent aches and pains from occurring again. From the assessment, we will work on corrective exercises to eliminate the weaknesses that are giving you these issues, and create a pain-free and functional body to train in.
This assessment is a two-part series. The initial assessment will be include static and dynamic posture assessment (digital pictures will be taken for static posture), gait assessment, and flexibility assessment. In the first session, you will receive initial evaluation comments as corrective exercises. A follow-up assessment will occur two to four weeks later, to review in more detail your initial assessment and digital pictures, and your initial progress. From this second review, additional recommendations will be given to continue progress.
Our pricing for a muscle balance assessment is $250
