Understand your body to break through your performance ceiling.
A physiological assessment experience unlike any other in Europe: a true profiling of the endurance athlete, to understand your own physiological mechanisms and identify powerful levers for progression.
A protocol for every discipline.
Each test lasts two hours and includes profiling, an effort test, a debrief and a full report for life.
Cycling
- Customized nutrition and hydration protocol
- Personalized intensity zones (VO₂max, SV1 / SV2 thresholds & real FCmax)
- Training and race paces
- Critical power + FTP
- Heart-rate & power zones (W, W/kg)
- Pedaling output & efficiency
- Sweat profile by intensity (fluid volume + mineral composition)
- Resting metabolic profile (fat-adaptation, FatMax)
- Segmental body composition
Running
- Customized nutrition and hydration protocol
- Personalized intensity zones (VO₂max, SV1 / SV2 thresholds & real FCmax)
- Training and race paces
- Critical speed & VMA
- Running economy score
- Sweat profile by intensity (fluid volume + mineral composition)
- Resting metabolic profile (fat-adaptation, FatMax)
- Segmental body composition
Trail
- Customized nutrition and hydration protocol
- Personalized intensity zones (VO₂max, SV1 / SV2 thresholds & real FCmax)
- Training and race paces
- Ascent speed & VMA
- Heart-rate zones & paces (flat + uphill)
- Running economy & lipid capacity
- Sweat profile by intensity (fluid volume + mineral composition)
- Resting metabolic profile (fat-adaptation, FatMax)
- Segmental body composition
Triathlon
- Customized nutrition and hydration protocol
- Intensity zones (VO₂max, thresholds & FCmax for running and cycling)
- Training and race paces
- Critical speed (run) + critical power & FTP (bike)
- Heart-rate zones, target paces & powers
- Running economy & cycling output
- Sweat profile by intensity (fluid volume + mineral composition)
- Resting metabolic profile (fat-adaptation, FatMax)
- Pacing strategy & bike/run coupling
A complete reading of your engine.
Five sections to decode your physiology, from resting metabolism to your tailor-made fueling plan.
Your engine
Far more than a snapshot of your body: a reading of your resting metabolic engine. We identify your substrate oxidation profile, how "fat-adapted" you are, able to draw on your lipids rather than depleting your glycogen.
Your zones
Your 5 training zones and your target paces (min/km) or powers (W), ready to load into your watch in one click. Your SV1 and SV2 thresholds are determined by ventilatory analysis to precisely calibrate your critical power or speed.
Your plan
Your tailor-made fueling plan: how many carbohydrates per hour depending on intensity, how much to drink and with what dose of sodium, calibrated on your actual sweat rate, and how to fuel day to day to progress without deficit or excess.
The debrief
A live debrief with the expert operator who ran your test. The whole point of this discussion: to give you concrete keys to progress, translating your physiological assets into training and nutrition decisions.
Your data
All your results in a personal online space, available as soon as the test ends and kept forever: viewable on mobile, tablet or computer, downloadable as a PDF, shareable via a link with your coach or your sports physician.
Four stages, one complete map.
Welcome
We welcome you to the laboratory, walk you through the experience and the schedule, and take the time to answer all your questions. A conversation to understand your background, your goals and your needs.
- Overview of the schedule & measurements
- Your background, your goals
- Your questions, our answers
Profiling
A reading of your body at rest, before exertion.
- Segmental body composition (45 s)
- Resting calorimetry under canopy (20–30 min)
- Active pressotherapy (feet → calves → thighs)
Effort test
A maximal ramp up to your VO₂max, calibrating your zones, your thresholds and your critical power or speed. A blood lactate measurement at the end of the ramp confirms that your maximal level has been reached.
- VO₂max ramp (10 min + 1-min stages)
- Blood lactate measurement at the end of the ramp
- Continuous biometric sweat sensor
Discussion
The expert who ran your test goes through your results with you, sets them against your goals and translates them into decisions. You leave with a clear roadmap.
- Effort curve, thresholds & zones
- Sweat profile & body composition
- Nutrition & hydration plan
Designed down to the smallest detail.
Gold-standard laboratory
An approach measured to the global gold standard, until now reserved for research laboratories, now open to amateur and professional athletes alike.
Your data, comparable over time
A personal online space as soon as the test ends, kept forever: exportable raw data, sharing via a link with your coach or your physician. Each new test is added to it so you can compare your results and track your progress.
Your bike, your bearings
You come with your own equipment, bike and shoes, for a test as close as possible to your real conditions. Our latest-generation equipment adapts to any type of bike.
Shower & changing room
After the effort, a shower and a changing room are available so you can leave refreshed. Designed for athletes who carry straight on with their day.
Private parking
Private parking is available, just steps from the main roads. You arrive stress-free and without wasting time.
Station & airport shuttle
Coming from far away? We can pick you up at the station or the airport in Toulouse.
What they say.
“I’m an amateur, I run four times a week, and I never imagined I’d have access to this level of precision. What struck me was the quality of the debrief: no PDF dumped in an email, but twenty minutes to really understand what I can do from Monday.”
“First marathon under 3h after three years of plateauing. What stuck with me: the substrate oxidation analysis. I knew I had to work on my lipid capacity, the test quantified it and the nutrition plan helped me reach my goal.”
“I thought I knew my zones, but in reality I was training too hard in base endurance. The debrief let me readjust my entire preparation for the Maxi-Race.”
“During the scan, we confirmed an SV2 I was greatly underestimating. The nutrition strategy calibrated on my actual sweat rate fixed my cramp problems. The investment paid off from the very first competition.”
The Metabolic Scan, in pictures.
