Use the equipment you already own.
INSCYD is agnostic when it comes to the measurement devices you use for testing. Any lactate meter, power meter, GPS watch, ergometer, treadmill, a metabolic cart, or even just a stopwatch will do the trick.
Power meter
GPS watch
Cycling ergometer
Treadmill
Head unit
Rowing ergometer
Handheld lactate meter
Handheld lactate meter
Handheld lactate meter
Portable VO₂ analyzer
Metabolic cart
Metabolic cart
Gas analyzer
The devices change. The profile does not.
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Adding Performance Assessment to your services doesn’t start with buying costly equipment
The single biggest – and often only – reason to not start comprehensive performance testing has been the overhead of needed equipment which needed to be purchased to begin with.
These times are gone. Now you can start with the very equipment you already own – no upfront investment needed. No dip in cashflow. No bank loans.
One number for the effort is the whole entry requirement. Which number depends on the sport.
A controlled workload makes a protocol easier to repeat. It is not a condition of testing, and the profile does not depend on it.
Handheld or benchtop, if you have one. Blood lactate anchors the model to a directly measured sample. Without it you still get a complete profile.
A metabolic cart or a portable analyzer adds economy, and only in a speed based sport such as running or swimming. In cycling, where power is already measured directly, it adds nothing. INSCYD computes VO₂max either way.
Your hardwareYour protocolYour complete performance assessment
The only thing that is influenced by your hardware are the options for testing. The more hardware you have the more different options there are to design different protocols.
But no matter which equipment you use: the result will always be a complete metabolic profile of your athlete.
Your equipment → the test it unlocks
Everything on that list produces a test. That is the point.
One squad, one dataset, whatever they each own.
A team almost never has matching equipment, and buying a matching set is not a realistic answer. Because INSCYD works from the measurement rather than the device, a mixed fleet still produces one comparable set of profiles.
One athlete on a power meter, another on a GPS watch, a third on the club ergometer. All three land in the same database in the same units.
One databaseYou are not locked to one test format, so a squad does not have to be tested the same way on the same day to be compared.
Still comparableA test done at a training camp and a test done at home stay comparable, because the profile is physiology rather than a raw performance number.
Same profileOne stop shop for lactate testing
Thinking of doing lactate testing but unsure where and how to start? Which device to choose and why?
INSCYD has got you covered. After a meta analysis of all available scientific literature on reliability and accuracy of lactate analyzers INSCYD partnered with the manufacturers and distributors of the most accurate handheld and benchtop analyzers.
For you this means: discounts on lactate strips in Europe and the USA and even free analyzers when you start from scratch or are willing to change your existing setup to the most accurate device.
Talk to our performance teamA complete metabolic profile in only three steps
The same three steps whatever your protocol, setup or hardware is
Test with what you own
Your protocol, your equipment, your location. A lactate meter, a power meter, an ergometer, a treadmill, a metabolic cart, or just a stopwatch.
No new gear to buyUpload the file or type it in
Drop in the activity file, an Excel spreadsheet, or enter the values by hand. INSCYD normalizes the data so that all tests stay comparable – no matter what protocol or hardware was used.
Seconds, in the browserGet the complete profile
From the end of the test to a full results dashboard in under three minutes – including customized reporting ready to hand over to your athlete.
Under three minutes
