Performance Diagnostics & Training Optimisation

Performance capacity is not a feeling. It is measurable

FOLLOW BIOLOGICAL RULES

Performance Development by Design

instead of leaving it to chance

Performance Diagnostics Salzburg/Bergheim: RESPONSIBILITY. CONTROL. ADAPTATION.

For Elite Athletes

⁠•⁠ Clear baseline assessment based on biological data
•⁠ ⁠Prevention of overtraining and minimised injury risk
•⁠ ⁠Training management with maximum efficiency

Measurable performance development: Analysis – Measures – Verification – Adaptation

For Ambitious Amateur Athletes

⁠⁠•⁠ Structure over chance – training with system and purpose
•⁠ ⁠Tangible and measurable progress
•⁠ ⁠More energy, focus and faster recovery

Building performance capacity as a process: Measurable, effective, actionable

For Health-Focused Individuals & Busy Professionals

•⁠ Greater resilience – physically and mentally
•⁠ ⁠Stronger immune system & better stress resistance
•⁠ ⁠Training that fits your life – and delivers results

Those who carry responsibility cannot afford to leave things to chance. Performance capacity is built through targeted adaptation – not through hope.

Elite Sport Coaching

30+ Years

efficient, effective, sustainable

Disciplines Analysed

100 +

from the sport itself to the supporting environment

Performance Diagnostics

10,000 +

And still counting…

Eliminating Guesswork

near 100%

If you don’t measure, you don’t know what you’re doing

Complex Processes

0

what doesn’t fit, gets made to fit

FAQ

Essentially anyone who wants to deliberately improve their performance capacity and resilience, or maintain it long-term. Without objective measurement, any training or load management is based on assumptions — a long-term risk to both health and performance.

Every effective process begins with a baseline assessment. Performance diagnostics provide objective data on current load capacity, energy systems and individual response to stress. This data forms the foundation for targeted, verifiable measures.


Yes, it is possible. In that case, however, training management is based on estimates and standard formulas. What is being gambled is not time or money — but health and long-term performance capacity.

Load capacity describes the body’s ability to process stress sustainably. Overload always arises from an imbalance between load and recovery over time — regardless of sport, work or daily life.

There are two approaches: symptom treatment through reducing load and increasing recovery, and root cause elimination through improving physical performance capacity. The lasting solution is a combination of both approaches based on objective data.

The fingertip is prone to sweat and frequently leads to measurement errors. The earlobe, when handled correctly, is the more reliable measurement site.

Diagnostics fulfils two core functions in performance development.
First, it serves as a baseline assessment: it shows where the current starting point lies.
The second — and significantly more powerful — function is verifying the effectiveness of training. Process-oriented thinking means not just carrying out training, but systematically checking whether the stimuli applied are actually producing the desired adaptation.
Those who use diagnostics only at long intervals (e.g. twice a year) cannot establish connections between training and effect. Without regular verification, training remains assumption — not management.

High-quality diagnostics includes a structured pre-assessment interview, calibratable laboratory lactate analysers, medically certified and calibratable ergometers, lactate measurement not taken at the fingertip, and a sport-specific step-test protocol.

Handheld devices are not calibratable and show greater measurement variation. They can be helpful during training but are not precise enough for diagnostic decisions.

Home exercise bikes are not calibratable. Even minor deviations make results incomparable and diagnostically worthless. Medically certified ergometers enable reproducible comparability.

A valid test requires at least four to five load stages, a mathematically correct calculation of the lactate performance curve, and an adaptation of the test equipment to the sport.

VO2max is a diagnostic parameter for assessing the oxygen transport system. For training management it is of limited use, as intensities cannot be practically derived from it.

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