INSCYD METRICS

From a 400m race to an IRONMAN triathlon, the aerobic capacity - or VO2max - is the most important measure of performance.

The most sought-after performance is available for you:By default, VO2max is monitored during each test you perform using INSCYD.

• Monitor VO2max where it matters: in the field, in the pool, on the road.
• Get VO2max from critical power or lactate tests - no lab required!
• With accuracy similar to a lab test - even if you don't have a lab!
• INSCYD is available for various sports such as swimming, where aerobic capacity seemed impossible to measure.

Now that you can measure VO2max, make the most of it!

Measuring VO2max is not something new. But with INSCYD you can now see how VO2max interacts with running and training performance:

• Understand the impact of VO2max on fat oxidation and carbohydrate combustion.
• Explain the changes in anaerobic threshold power or fat burning observed in your athlete.
• Compare the effect of high intensity interval training on endurance training on VO2max.
• Assess the impact of specialised nutritional diets to further increase VO2max.
• Make the best training decisions for your athletes.

You know it: decisive situations in a race depend on anaerobic energy supply! So why don't you measure it ?

There are two sides of VLamax (glycolytic power):

• On the one hand, a high VLamax increases the energy available for short efforts: a 200m swimming race, a 400m run, an attack, a sprint.
• On the other hand, a low VLamax increases the anaerobic threshold and fat combustion and shortens recovery from hard efforts.

VLamax has been a secret training tool for some of the most successfull coaches of the past decade:

• Dr. Olbrecht – advisor to several swimming coaches and triathletes. Athletes advised by Dr. Olbrecht have won numerous Olympic medals in the past four Olympic cycles - the latest being 18 medals at the Rio Olympic Games.
• Sebastian Weber – used VLamax as a key performance metric during his time as the Head coach of cycling's most successful team: HTC Highroad/Columbia. He has coached some of the most successful cyclists in the world such as: Alban Lakata, Tony Martin, Ivan Basso, André Greipel, Peter Sagan and many more.
• Dan Lorang – former Head coach of the German Triathlon Federation, private coach of double Ironman World Champion Jan Frodeno.
• STAPS: Europe’s most successful testing and coaching business, having Movistar, Katusha-Alpecin and Bora-hansgrohe among others as their customers.

A game changer in your training program

With INSCYD, the only scientific validated measurement of VLamax is by default included in every analysis:

• Identify whether anaerobic capacity is a strength or a weakness in your athlete.
• Check the impact of a prescribed high-intensity exercise on that athlete to ensure that weight and sprint training have the desired effect of increasing glycolytic capacity.
• Project and find out which anaerobic capacity level is needed to reach the desired goal.
• Tune the diet to decrease or increase VLamax even further.
• Monitor glycolytic capacity with INSCYD and change prescribed workouts to alter VLamax.
• Predict the impact of an altered anaerobic capacity on the performance before planning a training regime.

Knowing your threshold power simply isn't good enough! Only if you understand WHY it is what it is, you can effectively change it!

The anaerobic threshold of multiple world time-trial champion Tony Martin is well above 400 Watts. Yours might be only a fraction of this power. But why? What is physiologically different between you and Tony Martin? Which physiological system function differently from yours to enable that power? And what do you need to do in training to reduce this gap? With INSCYD, you can now find out...

Worlds most accurate measurement of world's most wanted performance metric

INSCYD detects anaerobic threshold as per scientific definition: the max intensity at which lactate combustion matches lactate production.

• Detection of anaerobic threshold is by default included in every analysis with INSCYD.
• Composition of the anaerobic threshold: body composition, aerobic capacity, lactate production. You can now see why the threshold is what it is and what you need to do to change it.
• INSCYD offers the only detection of anaerobic threshold which has been specifically validated in women - no other lactate or FTP test does this.

How much speed do you get for your energy?

• Economy relates to the conversion of: how much power do you have because of your physiological capacities – and how fast can you run or swim with this?
• In free motion sports such as running and swimming economy can well be the most crucial performance determinant. Obtaining economy in your athletes will become a competitive advantage.
• With INSCYD you can find out if it's more beneficial to increase metabolic capacities or to improve economy.

“INSCYD offers us the ability to create the most accurate measures of metabolic efficiency available today. ”

ADD ECONOMY TO YOUR COACHING TOOLBOX

INSCYD smoothly integrates efficiency into your portfolio with no hassle.

• Monitor efficiency on a regular basis and tune your training programs to perfection.
• INSCYD's high precision allows you to even capture the effect of different equipment - such as running shoes or wetsuits - on efficiency.
• Include evidence-based guidance on the fastest gear into your service.
• Expand previous workouts of your coaching to trigger adaptation to increase efficiency.

Start measuring fat combustion and utilizing your FatMax Zone with INSCYD:

• INSCYD analysis mimics the accuracy of the most respected scientific methods of measuring fat combustion rates.
• Fat combustion rates are highly individual metrics.
• Significant differences are observed both between different athletes, and between different states of training in those athletes.

Make fat combustion part of your training tools - use the 'FatMax Zone'.

• Assess fat combustion where it matters - on the field, in the pool, on the road!
• Knowing the FatMax Zone allows your athlete to train fat combustion more efficiently.
• Add nutritional advice to your training programs to raise FatMax even higher.
• Consistent tracking allows to monitor the success of your training and nutrition regimes.

• The ability of an athlete to use lactate as a fuel and to shuttle it is absolutely key in high intensity sports. Such abilities are highly trainable. But you cannot train for what you cannot measure.
• Start to monitor it - now! You will find significant differences between athletes that mirror their different performances in competition.
• INSCYD will give you and your athlete a key insight into this crucial science, which will push athletes performance to the next level.
• You will find significant differences between athletes that mirror their different performances in competition.

EXPLORE THE REAL ABILITY TO PERFORM

• The ability of an athlete to use lactate as a fuel and to shuttle it is absolutely key in high intensity sports. Such abilities are highly trainable. But you cannot train for what you cannot measure.
• Start monitor it - now! You will find significant differences between athletes that mirror their different performances in competition.
• INSCYD will give you and your athlete key insights into this crucial science, which will push athletes performance to the next level.
• You will find significant differences between athletes that mirror their different performances in competition.

1. Aerobic
2. Glycolytic
3. Creatine phosphate

Same Training - different TRIGGERS

Adaptations are not only specific to the workouts you prescribe, but also to the type of athlete. Two different athletes - with different metabolic profiles - can react completely differently to the same training stimulus. INSCYD helps you understand why.

• Visualize the sources of energy - understand which energy system is triggered in the prescribed workout.
• Create a library of training workouts and analyze which energy system is triggered before prescribing it to an athlete.
• Understand the energy demand of the most important competitions.
• Develop tailored training regimes to trigger the needed adaptation in your athletes.