BikeLab- Maximize your investment

BikeLab & Squadra

Professional testing and Coaching so that you can reach your potential.

Have you ever wondered why is it top professional athletes spend so much time, money and effort examining and testing their metabolic systems, heart rates, power and video tapes of their performance. The answer is simple, to build the ultimate performance from their body. Athletes bodies are as unique and have different levels of capability, although this may not be visible to the naked eye when looking at the line up of the 100m men’s final.

Athletes have different lung capacities, Vo2 levels, lactic tolerance, aerodynamic body positions, flexibility levels, body proportions and body composition. True many people with similar body types and abilities filter through to the same events but what separates a good performer from a great performer. Why has Lance Armstrong won 7 Tour De France titles, Michael Phelps won more gold medals than any other swimmer at any one Olympic Games, Chrissie Wellington unstoppable over the Ironman distance? The answer lies in the field of sports science and the proper application into training and equipment selection.
Professional athletes spend hours having their bodies tested, sport specific patterns of movement video recorded with analysis of angles, rotational speed, power, cadence, balance and aerodynamics. This builds a picture of the best performance factors for that individual. It takes into account strengths and weaknesses, genetic limitations and procedures to best impact increased performance in the identified areas. Elite athletes need to take advantage and exploit the use of these factors to have their bodies in the best state for competition.

Amateur and semi-elite athletes have not had the option of exploiting these scientific resources for their own needs and have subsequently fallen into the trap of training in large squads. These squads force a pace on the participants without regard for individual efficiency factors like lactic thresholds heart rate and power zones. This goes against the principles of training where you build your body up to the best potential state of readiness for a race.
BikeLab has joined forces with Squadra to form the ultimate in training packages for those wanting to make the most out of the time they spend training. BikeLab can analyse your movement and exercise efficiency and build programs to exploit strategies so that you can reach your potential. Professional testing gives you the quality data crucial to this process. Squadra is a club designed to support individual workouts in a group atmosphere. Squadra training builds your zones heart rate and power sessions so that a group can work together but still be focussed on individual goals.

So if your following the pack and your only goal is to complete the session distance, time or speed ask yourself are you making the most of your time and money. The professional testing and coaching services of the BikeLab are now open for every sportsperson and enthusiast to use.