Metabolic Performance.
Discover the key physiological metrics that define your cardiovascular endurance, performance and recovery, along with the data required to optimise them.
Data Obtained.
VT1
Ventilatory Threshold 1 (VT1) marks the maximum level of physical exertion you are able to sustain indefinitely. This metric defines your aerobic efficiency and identifies the point at which you are burning the maximum amount of fat to produce energy.
Having a high VT1 improves your ability to utilise oxygen, enabling you to burn fat more efficiently, recover faster from intense physical activity and attain greater levels of physical exertion in the absence of fatigue.
VT2
Ventilatory Threshold 2 (VT2) marks the maximum level of physical exertion you are able to sustain for approximately 1 hour. This metric defines your aerobic capacity and indicates a transition between aerobic and anaerobic metabolism.
Having a high VT2 improves your ability to utilise oxygen and increase metabolic waste removal, enabling you to reach greater levels of physical exertion before the byproducts of anaerobic metabolism induce fatigue.
VO2 Max
VO2 Max is the maximum volume of oxygen you can obtain to produce energy and is widely considered the most accurate predictor of cardiovascular fitness and longevity. This metric defines your maximal aerobic capacity and indicates the combined functionality of your lungs, heart, skeletal muscle and mitochondria.
Having a high VO2 Max enables you to obtain and deliver more oxygen to your cells, improving cardiovascular endurance, performance and recovery potential.
Substrate Utilisation
Substrate utilisation represents the contribution of fat and carbohydrate utilised to produce energy during activity and provides valuable information on the amount of calories, fat and carbohydrate burned during increasing levels of physical exertion.
This data enables you to optimise your caloric intake and macronutrient ratio to aid weight loss and/or improve performance.
HRR
Heart rate recovery (HRR) is a measure of how quickly your heart rate declines following intense physical activity and defines your cardiac autonomic function.
The faster your heart rate returns to resting, the better your autonomic function is. For healthy, asymptomatic individuals, HRR can serve as a good marker for overall cardiovascular health fitness.
Deliverables.
Performance Report
Following your assessment, you will receive a comprehensive report interpreting your test results. This report includes detailed information on your current metabolic health and performance status and includes specialist recommendation on how best to improve them.
Personalised Training Zones
Metabolix™ have created four unique training zones, each one designed to elicit specific physiological adaptations.
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Unlike other traditional training zone models which anchor to one single variable, Metzones™ utilise three physiological datapoints, unique to you and your individual physiology, to demarcate training zone intensity.
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This method provides a more accurate, data driven approach to exercise prescription, ensuring every workout conducted provides the most optimal results.
FAQs.
What is it?
Metabolic Performance Analysis measures your body's ability to obtain and utilise oxygen during exercise, identifying key physiological metrics that define your metabolic efficiency, cardiorespiratory endurance, performance and recovery capabilities.
How does it work?
The test commences at a moderate intensity and the speed on a treadmill, or resistance on a stationary bicycle, is increased at periodic intervals until you reach maximum effort and are no longer able to continue.
During the test, our state of the art, medical grade laboratory equipment measures your ability to obtain and utilise oxygen to produce energy, along with the amount of calories burned and the ratio of fat / carbohydrate utilised.
Who is it for?
Metabolic Performance Analysis is ideal for anyone looking to establish their current level of cardiorespiratory fitness and discover the optimal training zone intensities required to improve metabolic efficiency, cardiorespiratory endurance, performance and recovery.
Why is it useful?
Metabolic Performance Analysis is the most accurate way to establish your current level of cardiorespiratory fitness and determine personalised training zones unique to you and your individual physiology.
From elite athletes to individuals completely fresh to fitness, this test provides you with a baseline from which your fitness progress can be measured, along with all of the information required to ensure that your future workouts are as effective and efficient as possible.