An endurance performance test gives you a deeper insight into your physiological strengths, weaknesses and limitations. This insight puts you in a position to better target the correct areas in your training that will bring about greater performance gains. Without this knowledge one is left guessing which areas need to be worked on the most and which type of training would be best suited to current endurance fitness levels.

An endurance performance test is a testing protocol designed to establish an athlete’s VO2 max and Lactate Threshold levels using high quality and validated equipment. The test is performed on a treadmill with timely lactate readings and increases in intensity to exhaustion. The test itself usually takes around 15-20mins depending on the fitness level of the athlete. Once the test is complete the data is converted into a take home report with all the information and insight you need to take your training to the next level.

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Do you know which areas of your physiology do or don’t need to be worked on for your next racing goal? In other words do you need to slow your pace down or speed it up, do you need to do more tempo sessions or faster higher intensity sessions or do you need to run longer and further? Do you know why you’re unable to hit your goal race times despite all the predictors telling you that you should be?

Most runners don’t have the know how to get faster. They spend most of their training running either too fast or too slow. When you run too fast in training you train above your aerobic threshold limit, ie. you burn glycogen as your dominant fuel source and instead of improving your ability to run faster over long distances you get slower. That’s quite simply because you are not training at a speed that forces the body to develop and enhance your endurance capacity. When you train too slow, despite the fact that you are using fat as your fuel source and that you are forcing the body to develop and enhance your endurance capacity, it tends to be a at greatly reduced level, so improvements are negligible.

Basically, an endurance performance test gives you the information you need to get the biggest bang for your buck from your training. In other words, train smarter, not harder.