Customer stories

Alexander Törpel explains how the German Swimming Federation adopted INSCYD for metabolic testing, helping coaches quantify training effects and design individualized programs for elite swimmers across multiple Olympic cycles.

USA Triathlon's Project Podium has partnered with INSCYD to revolutionize the training of America's top young male triathletes. Head Coach Parker Spencer aims to turn potential into podiums at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

Mountain biking is significantly different from road cycling – you can't just use the same training prescription. Elite coach Janis Musins reveals how he transformed Martin Blums from rank 50 to 11th in the World XC ranking using INSCYD.

Aya Sinay has raced as a triathlete in IRONMAN Kona twice and coached for over 10 years. She shares 3 tips every triathlete coach should use to boost athlete performance and grow their coaching business.

In collaboration with renowned coach Frank Pike, we share why and how recreational athletes and age groupers benefit from using INSCYD, and why the science of metabolic profiling applies equally to time-crunched amateurs.

Olympian and former professional triathlete Jean-Christophe Guinchard shares how he used INSCYD to coach 8 athletes to qualify for the Ironman World Championships in Kona, using highly individual training zones and metabolic data.

INSCYD is known for its partnerships with national federations and professional teams. However, small-scale coaching businesses and their amateur athletes can also significantly benefit from INSCYD metabolic testing.

Team Sportforum has one mission: to become the best amateur cycling team in Germany. Head of Performance Luke Derksen shares how INSCYD drives talent identification, progress monitoring, and race strategy decisions.

Together with former professional cyclist Peter Pouly, we talk about the future of cycling training, from individualized training zones and data-driven progress tracking to building trust with athletes through metabolic insights.

Olympic mountain biking coach Filip François reveals his coaching structure, which leads to proven top performance and coaching business success, covering race demand analysis, metabolic profiling, and individualized training programs.

One-man coach Toll Tollmahawk more than doubled his athlete coaching and testing business in just 4 months. He shares 3 actionable tips: explain data simply, collaborate with known athletes, and grow with remote metabolic tests.

Tenille Hoogland shares how female athletes in perimenopause can balance strength, high-intensity intervals, and endurance training, and how INSCYD carbohydrate combustion data helps them fuel precisely for their unique physiology.

Coach and sport scientist Florian Heck shares how he and his trail runners benefit from combining INSCYD metabolic profiling with Stryd running power data, from test protocol to race pacing and interval prescription.

Ben Tilus, National and State Champion coach in track and field and XC, shares how measuring anaerobic power (VLamax) alongside VO2max gave him the missing piece to predict race performance with near-100% accuracy.

INSCYD becomes the official performance software for CANYON//SRAM women's cycling team, enabling gender-validated metabolic profiling, remote testing, fueling plan creation, and individualized interval design for all riders.

James (39) is self-employed, working long hours and fitting training around a demanding job. Coach Mark Turnbull used INSCYD to restructure his training after a serious accident, leading to two consecutive time trial wins.

Former Motorola pro Norman Alvis (59) is using INSCYD to prepare for an hour record attempt. Coach Frank Pike explains how INSCYD metabolic data takes the guesswork out of targeting an event that lasts exactly 60 minutes.

Christoph Strasser broke the 24h non-drafting cycling world record by riding 1026 km. Coach Markus Kinzlbauer used INSCYD fat and carbohydrate combustion data to calculate a precise nutrition plan of 105g carbs per hour.

Sport Scientist Dylan Lindsey shares how he coached Sarah Gigante to the National TT Championships using INSCYD’s Lactate Recovery & Accumulation chart, setting precise interval intensities and race pacing without visiting the course.

Certified Sports Nutritionist Coach Sofi Marin explains how she translates INSCYD metabolic data into specific nutrition advice, from carbohydrate combustion rates to race fueling plans for ultra-endurance athletes.

“While everyone is obsessed with power data, INSCYD enables me to go beyond the superficial and understand my body better.” Cyclocross professional Eli Iserbyt shares what he learned from INSCYD and how he applies it in training.

Florian Wellbrock, Germany’s first INSCYD user in the German Swimming Federation, won gold in the 10km open water marathon at the 2023 World Championships, adding to his Olympic gold and bronze from Tokyo 2021.

Mika Luoto, coaching monitor of the Finnish Triathlon Association, was initially skeptical of INSCYD field testing. Comparing field test results with lab results convinced him, and he now uses INSCYD for all athlete planning.

The Belgian Hammers won the Olympic qualifier in Lisbon and competed at the Tokyo Olympics. Exercise physiologist Reinout Van Schuylenbergh explains how INSCYD VLamax and VO2max data drives their mixed relay training program.

Cross country runner Vanessa Scaunet used INSCYD to switch race goals from a 2000m cross country to an 800m European Championships event in just 10 days, with performance projection showing exactly what was physiologically possible.

INSCYD and Fast Talk Laboratories announce a partnership bringing INSCYD’s laboratory-validated testing protocol to Fast Talk’s sport science community and virtual performance center for cyclists and triathletes.

INSCYD metabolic analysis is not limited to cycling. In a project with the German Ski Association, INSCYD performed 300+ tests to map energy demand by speed, slope, and technique in cross-country skiing for the first time.

Wout van Aert, coached using INSCYD since 2017, reveals how measuring and lowering VLamax after cyclocross season allows him to switch to road cycling without burning through carbohydrates in the opening hour of a long race.

Diagnostics national coach Alexander Törpel (m.) works with fellow coaches Norbert Warnatzsch (l.) and Bernd Berkhahn (r.) at the Magdeburg federal base in Magdeburg. Digitization is also inevitable in the sport of swimming.

Carmichael Training Systems (CTS) partners with INSCYD to bring lab-accuracy metabolic testing to their 50+ professional coaches, enabling remote Power Performance Decoder tests for athletes worldwide without a physical lab.

INSCYD and Belgian Cycling signed a four-year cooperation agreement covering all disciplines, road cycling, mountain biking, cyclocross, BMX, and track cycling, to support performance testing and coach education across the federation.

Dan Lorang shares how he uses INSCYD metabolic data to create more efficient training programs at Team BORA-hansgrohe, covering performance management, field testing, and applying results to daily training plans.

Salim Mohammed qualified for the Ironman World Championships at age 52, just four years after his first triathlon swim. His coach used INSCYD to halve his VLamax, transforming fat combustion and race-day energy management.

Henrik Kraglund broke the 7-hour barrier at La Marmotte 2019 after coach Ragnar Gudmundsson redesigned his training around FatMax zones. INSCYD tests showed a 20% VLamax reduction in just four months of training.

Want to race ultra long events like Race Across America or Cape Epic? Coach Sofi Marin explains how INSCYD carbohydrate combustion data is essential for pacing and fueling across 24–48 hour endurance events.

Coach Florian Heck used INSCYD to test himself before using it with athletes. After 20 weeks of structured training guided by INSCYD data, his VO2max rose from 60 to 68 ml/min/kg and his anaerobic threshold increased by 24 watts.

Swedish cyclist Hannes Bergström Frisk had a VO2max of 80 ml/min/kg but consistently underperformed. Coach Karl-Axel Zander Persson identified a high VLamax as the cause and used INSCYD-guided training to unlock a professional contract.

INSCYD and SEG Racing Academy signed a three-year partnership to support talent development and performance analysis for the U23 development team, whose 16 riders have progressed to the professional peloton in four years.

INSCYD and SEG Racing Academy signed a three-year partnership to support the U23 development team with metabolic testing and performance analysis, the same methodology used by BORA-hansgrohe and Jumbo-Visma.

Icelandic coach Ragnar Gudmundsson tested 30 swimmers from the Icelandic Swimming Federation using INSCYD protocols, delivering full metabolic profiles the day after testing and reshaping how coaches set training intensities.

The Belgian swimming club Nijlen (SHaRK) uses INSCYD to analyze individual swimmers rather than groups, shifting from percentage-of-best-time training to lactate-based intensity zones that reflect real aerobic and anaerobic capacity.

Ralf Schön qualified for Kona twice while training just 12 hours per week. His coaches at STAPS, where INSCYD was born, used precise metabolic testing to bring him to peak performance exactly on race day, never overtrained.

Age-grouper Matthew McCutchen improved his Ironman bike split by 13 minutes in 12 months under coach Joby Gutierrez, reducing VLamax from 0.45 to 0.25 and cutting carbohydrate dependency from 99g/h to 77.5g/h at race power.

Coach Joseph Spindler used INSCYD carbohydrate combustion data to predict Bernat Xamena’s marathon pace with near-perfect accuracy, helping him run a 2:54 sub-3 hour marathon in Barcelona after a DNF the year before.

INSCYD partners with Team BORA-hansgrohe, supporting the WorldTour cycling team with metabolic profiling and performance analysis as part of their race preparation.

Coaches and sports scientists from cycling, triathlon, swimming, and running share firsthand how INSCYD transformed their testing workflow, training prescription accuracy, and athlete performance outcomes.

Professional cyclist Toms Skujins explains how INSCYD's lactate accumulation and recovery visualization changed his understanding of fatigue and recovery patterns during high-intensity cycling efforts.

Dan Lorang, coach of Jan Frodeno and BORA-hansgrohe, explains how VLamax measurement guides training periodization and race-day fueling strategy for world champion Ironman and road cycling athletes.