INSCYD MEdia

Exercise physiologist Van Schuylenbergh PhD talks about the road to the Olympic Games for the Belgian Hammers (Mixed Team Relay).

What is INSCYD? It is the most advanced software tool to analyze physiological performance in athletes. It enables coaches to create highly individual and laser focused training programs.

Glycogen is the most important energy substrate during exercise at higher intensities. This blog covers all you need to know about glycogen, so you can leverage this knowledge - provided by INSCYD - to your advantage.

How often should athletes do an exercise test? And maybe even more important: when should athletes do such a metabolic test? Read it in this blog and listen to the podcast.

Read how Vanessa Scaunet and her coach used INSCYD to calculate race demands, create interval training and predict race performance.

At this very moment, Sebastian Weber is giving a 2-day workshop in Munich about Energy metabolism diagnostics – and how to apply it in training. Do you want to know what they are learning? Or are you interested in joining future workshops or webinars? Read this blog and fill out the form!

As the INSCYD community grows, so does our team. We are happy to welcome track and field sprint expert, Brijesh Lawrence OLY. Read this blog to get to know Brijesh, his track and field performances and his goal at INSCYD.

We are happy to announce our new partnership with Fast Talk Laboratories! Read how our collaboration benefits both athletes and coaches.

To perform well in XC skiing, you need to understand the aerobic and anaerobic energy demand of a race. That's why INSCYD and the German Ski Association took the metabolic analysis to a next level!

Cyclocross heroes seem to dominate in road cycling. How do cyclists like Thomas Pidcock, Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel make the switch from a 60-minute cyclocross race to a 6-hour road race? In this blog, Wout van Aert – coached using INSCYD since 2017 – reveals his secret!

Should you seek out your local sports science performance lab? Or should you implement field test protocols to measure your performance data outdoors? The truth is, there are variables that will affect your performance data whichever method you choose.

Since august 2020 we proudly work together with Eden Reforestation Projects. For every INSCYD test sold, we plant a tree! By doing so, we try to support the re-forestation of our planet. We are happy to announce we planted over 2500 trees since we started this collaboration.

In this blog we’ll show you how knowing your lactate accumulation and recovery will optimize interval training. We'll find out at which intensity you recover fastest and how long you need to recover for a certain interval. This results in an interval work-to-recovery ratio substantiated by data.

Before you get lost in details like running cadence, stride length and ground contact time, we want you to look at the basics first: the fuel that enables us to move forward. In this blog we are going to look at how understanding fat & carbohydrate utilization will make you a faster runner!

Yet another new partnership announcement! But not just any partner.. the German Swimming Federation! We are looking forward to a multi-year collaboration. Diagnostics national coach Dr. Alexander Törpel explains: “What was previously assumed based on experiential knowledge can now be clarified with numbers.” Read more in this press release.

We believe that our users and partners earn the right to know accurate data. This includes being able to share important information about the accuracy and tolerance of the data we provide. This also includes how – for example - the tolerances of the hardware they use effect the results calculated by INSCYD.

Two of the most innovative and best performing companies have joined forces. The coaching company Carmichael Training Systems (CTS) brings on board the analysis software and the unique training science tool INSCYD to support their performance diagnostic work.

Advertising claims are often designed to make more out of products than they actually are. INSCYD’s Power-Performance Decoder (PPD) software doesn’t have a claim. Instead of making bold promises we’d rather have our customers try out PPD themselves. This is the story of someone who went forth to test the accuracy of this unique system - undercover.

“With this partnership, we take another step into the process to aim for the best support our athletes can get. We noticed that a lot of the rider’s personal coaches worked with INSCYD already, so last year we started a pilot phase in the federation to get to know the software better. This trail period showed us that INSCYD is another piece of the puzzle in the performance support of the riders, so we are really excited about this partnership!” says Frederik Broché, Technical Director of Belgian Cycling.

Hard work will always beat talent (if talent is not trained). But if you've got a good set of genes and a strong work ethic, then you're on the road to success. And that is true at any given phase in life. Just take Salim Mohammed’s case, for instance.

There are several badges of honour in the endurance sport world. For some, it is running a marathon in less than three hours, or qualifying for the Ironman World Championships. For pure cyclists, on the other hand, it can be cycling a granfondo at a high pace — and if you take the Marmotte as an example (174km with more than 5,000 meters of vertical elevation), finishing the challenge in less than 7 hours is a result anyone would be proud of.

Want to race super long cycling races, like the Race Across America or the Transcontinental? We've got you covered.

When Eliud Kipchoge crossed the finish line of the INEOS 1:59 Challenge in Vienna, he did not only ran a marathon under two hours, but he also broke a boundary that people thought it was the ultimate limit of human performance. How was such a performance possible? We just looked at the possible physiology behind the 1:59 Challenge and the results are stunning...

Before suggesting a product to other people, ideally you want to test it for — or in this case on — yourself first. That’s what coach Florian Heck, 28 years old from Tri2gether (Germany) did…

Swedish pro cyclist Hannes Bergström Frisk (23) has a “big engine”. In a lab test in Monaco he returned a VO2max value of 80ml/min/kg.  However, something in his performances was missing – both in training and racing…

INSCYD — the world’s most advanced software for performance analysis — has signed a three -year contract with the Pro Continental cycling team Corendon-Circus ahead of the next cycling seasons

Double Olympian Brendan Reilly joins INSCYD

INSCYD, the world’s most advanced software for performance analysis, and SEG CYCLING Academy partnered up for the next three years.

Although running, cycling, triathlon – and the majority of other sports -- are still performed outdoors, indoor training and the digitalization of training both are becoming more and more popular. Even in the professional world the digitalization of training software and performance analysis tools are taking the specialization of the disciplines by storm.

Although running, cycling, triathlon – and the majority of other sports -- are still performed outdoors, indoor training and the digitalization of training both are becoming more and more popular. Even in the professional world the digitalization of training software and performance analysis tools are taking the specialization of the disciplines by storm.

How former Olympian swimmer and sport scientist Ragnar Gudmundsson revolutionizes swim training in Iceland

The peculiarity of swimming is that because of the relatively short duration of the races, all the three energy systems contribute to the power production and the overall performance of the athlete. In every single swim race the anaerobic energy production plays a huge and significant role.

You want to develop your squad and bring the youngsters to an elite level. You need that extra advantage to win against your competitors? Learn how a belgium swim club did it.

Anaerobic Threshold or FTP might well be the most popular metric in endurance sports. However, you may actually never ride or run at threshold.

Carbohydrate storage is very limited in the human body, and so is the uptake rate an athlete can tolerate when training and racing.

You’ve been told you need to train 15, 18 or even 20 hours a week to qualify for the Ironman World Championships. Well, think twice.

Only once you’re able to relate a training program to specific physiological adaptations, you’re able to train in a true specific way and create a training program that targets the adaptation to match your individual goals.

Going sub-5 for the bike leg of an Ironman is a true milestone. Getting faster after this benchmark is clearly harder, but not impossible…if you know what limits your performance.

For INSCYD and team BORA – hansgrohe the first quarter of the year has been a blast.

Triathlon coach Joseph Spindler uses fat - and carbohydrate combustion rates to pace his athlete to a new personal best, sub-3h marathon.

Endurance sports most wanted metric

The most important performance metric you may have never heard about

Metabolic demands to win a sprint at the Tour de France