Personalized Performance: Elevating Athletic Potential on the Bike with INSCYD
At AchievePTC, we’re dedicated to helping our athletes reach their goals and hit peak levels of performance. We are always looking for the best tools and latest advancements in sports science that we can use to help us in this pursuit.
Since 2017, we’ve offered performance analysis testing in partnership with INSCYD, a revolutionary tool that helps unlock your unique physiological blueprints, which we then use to guide our training recommendations and tailor programs for you.
About the INSCYD Platform
INSCYD (pronounced "inside") is a cutting-edge metabolic testing and analysis platform that provides athletes and coaches with detailed insights into an individual's physiology, helping to optimize training strategies and improve performance.
The best part about this tool is its ability to do the types of tests that used to require a lab visit. Now, they can be conducted with data from the roads you ride and race on.
INSCYD goes beyond standard fitness evaluations; it's a window into your body's intricate metabolic responses during exercise. It calculates your aerobic and anaerobic limits and even predicts your performance across diverse terrains at different intensities.
How We Use INSCYD at AchievePTC
At least twice a year, we ask our athletes to perform a critical power test to identify their metabolic capacities. Additional testing throughout the year allows the coach and rider to identify progress and development needs.
Here are the key advantages of this approach:
Precise Training Zones Customization: INSCYD empowers our coaches to calculate your training zones tailored to your metabolic thresholds. This means every workout maximizes gains while minimizing strain.
Strategic Periodization for Superior Results: This ensures every training phase aligns with your body's physiological needs. Rest and recovery are when you get stronger, and optimizing it maximizes adaptation.
Custom Nutrition Roadmaps: Carbohydrate and fat utilization are the foundation for your nutrition strategy. Our coaches will craft plans based on your metabolic response, ensuring peak energy during workouts and races.
Performance Projections and Insights: With INSCYD, your Achieve coach can set goals and build training plans based on your metabolic insights, not guesswork. This helps take your performance to new heights.
Fluid Adaptive Training Strategies: Bodies evolve, and so does your training. With INSCYD's guidance, we adapt your plan as your body's metabolic markers shift, ensuring continuous progression.
The Missing Link of Cycling Performance - VLamax
As many progress in cycling, the gains they experience at first are significant. But nearly everyone reaches some plateau, and they have only a limited time to train. For the average person trying to juggle a family, a career, and training, riding a bike consistently is a distant third on their list of priorities.
But this doesn’t mean you can’t be at the top of your game. You can. It just means you must utilize your time to train as effectively as possible.
With deep insight into your metabolic profile, we help you maximize your time. We uncover this through the testing protocol to identify your full metabolic profile, including VO2 max, Anaerobic Threshold, FatMax, and the missing link of cycling performance, VLamax.
Astonishingly, 20% of the performance variance between amateur and professional cyclists can be attributed to VO2 max, while an astounding 75% can be linked to VLamax – the gauge of lactate accumulation and clearance.
