Complete Performance Testing Package

Complete Performance Package

£395.00

2.5 Hours

This package includes all components of the Core Performance Package with additional nutritional support through detailed analysis of self-reported dietary intakes with a follow up nutritionist consultation. This package provides a comprehensive assessment of diet and training habits, allowing for optimised practices based upon evidence-based decision making. As standard, tests are conducted in one appointment, but may be separated to different booking slots if preferred. 

Complete Performance Package

This package includes the combined lactate threshold testing and VO2MAX testing, alongside body composition measures through ISAK skinfold calliper assessment. As standard, tests are conducted in one appointment, but may be separated to different booking slots if preferred.  

VO2 Max Testing

VO2 Max Testing, test-to-exhaustion, can be performed on a treadmill, cycle ergometer, or a rowing machine. Exercise intensity increases with increments every minute for approximately 8-12 minutes until a maximum velocity or power output is attained. Data collected includes oxygen uptake and carbon dioxide production, using research-grade, state-of-the-art, metabolic analysers to determine cardiorespiratory fitness, metabolic thresholds, and substrate utilisation. Furthermore, heart rate and indices of breathing patterns and ventilatory efficiency are collected.

These outcomes provide individually tailored feedback on health and performance indicators, as well as enabling guidance for optimising training purposes. You will be provided with a bespoke scientific report to put your results into age, sex, and sporting discipline contexts, as well as receive evidence-based training guidance from the Oriam Clinic Sport and Exercise Sciences team at Heriot-Watt University.

Lactate Threshold Test

This is a submaximal exercise test that provides a wealth of high-quality data to inform your endurance performance and training. Similar to the VO2MAX test, exercise can be conducted on a range of exercise equipment, with metabolic, heart rate and ventilatory data collected using research-grade equipment to deliver you reliable data to support your training and competition.

The advantages of a lactate threshold include a longer test duration, including 4-minute stages before stepwise increases in intensity, as well as the direct measures of blood lactate, revealing distinct metabolic thresholds and exercise training zones with a higher degree of accuracy. Individualised training zones are more representative of steady-state exercise than with a VO2MAX test, making them more suitable for longer distance runners and more able to detect changes from pre- and post-intervention, such as training blocks.

Data will be reported clearly in written format with detailed graphical illustrations and comparisons to normative datasets. Bespoke reports will provide evidence-based guidance for optimising your training and preparation for upcoming competitions and events.  

ISAK Skinfold Calliper Assessment

Conducted in adherence to the rigorous standards of the International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry (ISAK), our skinfold calliper assessment provides precise and reliable measures of body composition. ISAK certified anthropometrists will measure skinfold thickness using gold-standard Harpenden callipers at standardised anatomical landmarks to ensure that data is valid and repeatable, thereby providing useful data on the progression of a weight loss, maintenance, or muscle building program. Knowledge of body composition can aid in injury prevention, mobility and flexibility, exercise performance, and the detection of relative energy deficiency.  Also, when measures are repeated across timepoints, body composition assessments can provide clarity on the effectiveness of nutrition and exercise training programs.  

Dietary Analysis with Nutritionist Consultation

A detailed analysis of your dietary records provides an insight into the nutritional value of your diet and provides evidence-based recommendations for improving your health and athletic performance. You will receive feedback on the macro- and micronutrient quality, as well as the portions, timing and frequency of your meals. Within the report, you will be presented with individualised nutritional targets, based on your age, sex and physical demands, and suggested foods to help you achieve more suitable food choices.

Documents for collection of 5-7 days of weighted food records and physical activity diaries will be provided to you and following their return, feedback will be presented within 5 working days. In addition to the detailed dietary analysis, this service includes a consultation with a professional nutritionist. The feedback report will be discussed in detail and evidence-based suggestions will be made for how to improve your diet and lifestyle to achieve your health or performance goals. Questionnaires will be provided to ensure that recommendations are desirable and feasible within the confines of your lifestyle factors and dietary requirements. Â