Metabolic Testing
Breakthrough Performance Coaching offers a precise analysis of the body’s metabolic process for individuals seeking to improve their fitness or enhance their training.
Our testing solutions are cutting-edge and evidence-based to contribute a holistic approach to weight loss and athletic performance. We provide the perfect mechanism to gather base data on your metabolism and track how it changes to fine-tune your plan for streamlined body progress.
Speak to our accomplished team to assess your metabolic rates accurately—call (617) 308-0586 to consult with our certified professionals.
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Metabolism Analysis: What to Expect
We test your metabolic rate by assessing your oxygen consumption. Use this information to gain a clear picture of what your body needs to achieve the performance or health goals you’ve set.
Here’s an outline of our analysis procedure:
Metabolic Analysis Test Prep Guidelines
Before arriving for the test, make sure you:
- Avoid strenuous physical activity for 12 hours before the test.
- Abstain from eating for a minimum of five hours before your scheduled appointment. For more precise results, consider fasting for 12 to 24 hours.
- Reduce or stop consumption of stimulants like caffeine or cold medications. Prescription medications should be taken as per the given schedule.
During the Test
- You’ll be offered a comfortable seating or reclining position.
- You can listen to music or podcasts using earphones during the test.
- A clip will be attached to your nose.
- We’ll provide a mouthpiece that draws in fresh air from the surroundings and gathers the exhaled gas for analysis.
- You’ll be required to create a tight seal with your lips around the mouthpiece to ensure accurate analysis of the exhaled air.
- Expect the test to be completed in under half an hour.
- Allowing the test to run for the maximum time facilitates enhanced data collection, resulting in more precise outcomes.
We make your test as easy and hassle-free as possible. All you need to do is ensure your body offers the best samples for our testing mechanism to read by following the above guidelines.
Contact our experts today to schedule a consultation appointment to learn more about our metabolic testing process.
How Metabolic Assessments Can Help
Metabolic assessments help us gain insight into how our body processes every unit of energy intake and outtake. Moreover, the data you gain from this simple and painless test can be used to fine-tune your diet and training to help you unlock optimal performance.
Our metabolic tests have helped our clients with the following:
- Establishing a baseline: To optimize rehabilitation, fitness, and performance, it’s crucial to establish a baseline before embarking on any programs. Metabolic testing provides a foundation for comparison to track progress and identify priorities. Without a starting point, the journey toward goals may be lost.
- Identifying limitations: Metabolic testing identifies limitations, highlighting potential issues with organs, nutrition, and metabolic disorders.
- Produce personalized training goals: Metabolic testing is an objective and systematic approach to customize training and nutrition plans, ensuring you’re not wasting valuable time and money on trial and error.
- Maintaining a feedback loop: Feedback loops are crucial in rehabilitation, training, coaching, and daily life. They’re essential to our conscious and subconscious functioning. Consistent use of feedback loops is vital for healthcare providers, coaches, trainers, athletes, and individuals in general. Without them, it’s difficult to assess progress or accurately identify areas needing improvement.
With such detailed analysis available to enhance comprehension of body functioning, there’s no reason to hold back on acquiring the best tools possible for your performance. Elevate your training or weight loss results with Breakthrough Performance Coaching’s accurate metabolic evaluations.
Metabolic Testing
Metabolic testing is not just for olympic athletes! Olympians and other top-level athletes have access to human performance labs where cutting-edge science, top trainers and coaches work to help them wring every bit of excellence from their bodies and minds. You should too! Let the Breakthrough Performance Coaching Staff perform metabolic your metabolic testing in their performance lab. This will allow us to get the inside info on your metabolism – the intensity at which you burn calories most efficiently, how efficiently your body uses oxygen – and help determine what kind of gains are possible with the right training.
We have partnered with INSCYD to bring you the latest in data analysis. With INSCYD you’ll get full picture of your physical capacities and also a prediction of your training and racing outcomes.
The tests are performed on field or in lab and they are scientifically proven to be more precise then any conventional lab or field test.
Your coach will provide you with a complete metabolic performance report, which will include all the metrics mentioned above (see the section metrics for further details). You will learn what exactly you need to do in training to reach your personal goals.
There are number of tests we can run to give you the inside track on achieving your full athletic potential: Resting Metabolic Rate, Race Fueling/Performance, Lactate Testing and VO2max. Based on the specific test, the most sophisticated physiologic scientific equipment will be used to collect and analyze your data.
The performance you are looking for is composed of a variety of components and metrics, but if you only focus on FTP, heart rate zones, or keep training only according to your Rate of Perceived Exertion, you’ll miss accuracy and efficiency.
For example, with INSCYD you can finally understand the interactions between your aerobic system and your fuelling needs. Do you wonder, “How much should I consume per hour in order to maintain my performance?” With INSCYD, you’ll know.
INSCYD takes into account, and connect to one another, the most important metrics for training purposes:
- VO2max
- Anaerobic threshold
- Lactate accumulation and recovery
- Fat and carbohydrates combustion
- Recovery
- VLamax (or glycolytic capacity)
Each of the above metrics measured by INSCYD is critical to performance and remember, each sport performance is predictable and can be broken down to these fundamental elements. r
Take VLamax, for example. Although you might have never heard of it, VLamax. It is the single most important measurement to enhance your performance. VLamax is the maximum production of lactic acid in your blood and gives you a complete understanding of your anaerobic metabolism (which yes, is crucial in endurance events, too!). VO2max is aerobic, now we know the anaerobic piece, which turns out to be at least as important.
BPC athletes receive 15% off all advertised prices
1. INSCYD Metabolic Test
We have the capacity to design and perform virtually and metabolic testing with our Moxus II Metabolic Cart. Tell us your goals and we’ll create the test to get you actionable data.
INSCYD PPD Cycling – $250*
INSCYD PPD Running – $250*
Lactate Testing Cycling with VO2 gas analysis – $450*
Lactate Testing Running with VO2 gas analysis and economy measurements – $450*
3. Sweat Sodium Composition Test
Let BPC take the guesswork out of your fueling strategy by using our sweat conductivity analyzer to precisely measure how much sodium you are losing through your sweat. This is often the missing puzzle piece from an athletes race nutrition plan. You can easily calculate your sweat rate, but without our scientific testing equipment, knowing how much sodium your sweat contains is just a guessing game.
Cost: $75*
4. Resting Metabolic Rate Test
The resting metabolic rate test is designed to determine your baseline utilization of carbohydrates and fat. From these results we can precisely determine your daily calorie needs and metabolic efficiency. Using these data, a training program can be developed and adjustments made to your diet in consultation with a nutritionist in order to maximize fat burning.
Typical duration: Approximately 1 hour including setup
Cost: $250*