The 2025 endurance report

The State of Endurance Performance & Optimization 2025

The 2025 report on endurance performance and performance optimization report is based on anonymized data from a total of 43 countries and a total of 474 organizations including commercial coaching companies, human performance laboratories, longevity and health service providers, national sport federations and their elite sport programs, as well as universities and research projects.

The State of Endurance Performance and Optimization 2025 report
Athletes9 468
Countries43
Data to2025
Metrics7
SportsSwimming, cycling, running, speed skating, rowing and skiing sport icons
Inside the report

This report is not just including descriptive statistics of markers of endurance performance across different populations. It also shows the trainability of endurance performance across lifespan different sports and the interactions of key endurance performance indicators.

The analyses in this report focus on relationships between changes in performance metrics, rather than on static values or isolated measurements.

Endurance Performance Across Lifespan

How physiological metrics change with age and their impact on performance across decades

Endurance Across Sports

Sport-specific performance profiles and how metrics vary across different disciplines

Training Adaptations Across Lifespan

How training responses and adaptation capacity evolve throughout athletic lifespan

Interaction Between Metrics

Dependencies and relationships that shape overall endurance performance

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