Metabolic Lab

Purpose: Measures the number of calories burned at rest, providing insights into metabolism and energy expenditure.

Benefits:

• Tailored Plans: Customize your dietary and exercise strategies based on your unique metabolic rate, empowering you to manage weight effectively and achieve your fitness aspirations.
• Enhanced Health Insights: Gain a deeper understanding of your metabolic needs, enabling targeted approaches to improve overall health and athletic performance.
• Progress Tracking: Continuously monitor your metabolic rate, allowing for real-time adjustments to your health plan as your body evolves.

How It Works: Uses indirect calorimetry to assess oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production at rest.

Personalized Recommendations: Receive tailored caloric intake suggestions grounded in your individual metabolic profile, maximizing your health and fitness outcomes for lasting success.

Purpose: Assesses the maximum amount of oxygen the body can utilize during intense exercise, indicating aerobic fitness.

Benefits:

• Enhanced Performance Data: Gain insights into your cardiovascular endurance, enabling you to set precise training zones that improve performance and stamina.
•  Personalized Training Guidance: Tailor your training regimen based on specific data, ensuring each workout is strategically designed to elevate your fitness.

How It Works: Measures oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production during graded exercise on a treadmill or cycle ergometer.

Performance Benchmarking: Tracks cardiovascular fitness improvements over time, providing benchmarks to gauge your progress.

Purpose: Analyzes body composition, including fat mass, lean mass, and bone density.

Benefits: Assesses body fat distribution, muscle mass, and bone health, informing nutritional and fitness strategies.

How It Works: Uses dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) to generate high-resolution images of bone and soft tissue.

Bone Density Insights: Provides essential information on bone density to help prevent and manage osteoporosis and other bone conditions.

Body Composition Insights: Delivers a detailed analysis of body fat distribution, including visceral fat—the fat stored around abdominal organs—and lean muscle mass, aiding in the tracking of overall physical fitness and health risks associated with excess abdominal fat.

• Horizon DXA System from Hologic - Bone Density Scan

Purpose: Evaluates cognitive functions, including memory, executive function, attention, visuospatial skills, reaction time, and processing speed.

Benefits: 

• Monitors mental acuity and cognitive health, essential for optimal performance and well-being.
•  Helps older adults detect early signs of cognitive decline.
• Assists individuals with neurological conditions in tracking cognitive changes.
• Aids patients recovering from brain injuries by assessing cognitive recovery.
• Enhances learning and focus for students and professionals.
• Provides insights for individuals experiencing mental health concerns.
• Supports athletes in monitoring cognitive performance and recovery.

How It Works: Utilizes interactive computerized tasks to guide participants through engaging exercises, recording metrics like response accuracy and completion time for objective insights into cognitive performance.

Cognitive Health Tracking: Provides baseline and follow-up assessments to track cognitive changes and guide interventions.

• Cognivue Clarity Device - Cognivue

Purpose: Measures lower body strength and power through force plate technology.

Benefits: 

• Lower Body Strength and Stability Assessment: Improves lower body strength and stability, essential for athletic and everyday activities.
• Targeted Training: Offers precise data to tailor lower body training programs for optimal performance.
• Progress Tracking: Establishes benchmarks for lower body strength and power, allowing for effective monitoring of progress.
• Athletic Performance Enhancement: Specifically benefits sports that rely on lower body strength, such as sprinting and jumping.
• Real-Time Feedback: Delivers immediate insights during testing, enabling on-the-spot adjustments to training plans.

How It Works: Captures force production during jumps and various movements to evaluate strength and power. This data is analyzed to provide insights into peak performance and movement efficiency, allowing for targeted improvements in training and technique.

Recovery Monitoring: Delivers data on recovery and fatigue levels, helping to optimize training loads and prevent overtraining.

ForceDecks | Portable, powerful and easy-to-use force plates (valdperformance.com)

Purpose: Evaluates upper body strength and explosive power.

Benefits: 

• Upper Body Strength and Power Assessment: Measures force output during upper body exercises to enhance strength and explosive power for sports performance.
• Targeted Training: Informs the development of customized upper body strength training programs based on precise data.
• Progress Tracking: Establishes benchmarks for upper body performance, enabling effective monitoring of improvements.
• Functional Applications: Improves performance in sports requiring upper body strength, such as swimming or boxing.
• Real-Time Feedback: Provides immediate insights during assessments for quick adjustments to technique and training.

How It Works: Measures force output during upper body exercises using advanced force sensors. This data is analyzed to provide insights into upper body performance and movement efficiency, allowing for personalized adjustments in training strategies and skill development.

Injury Prevention: Assesses imbalances and weaknesses to reduce injury risk and improve function.

ForceFrame | Fast and adaptable strength training and testing (valdperformance.com)

Purpose: Assesses dynamic balance and core strength.

Benefits: 

• Dynamic Balance and Core Strength Assessment: Improves dynamic balance and core stability for enhanced athletic performance.
• Targeted Training: Provides data to customize balance and core training programs effectively.
• Progress Tracking: Establishes benchmarks for monitoring improvements in balance and core strength.
• Athletic Performance Enhancement: Supports activities requiring dynamic balance, such as dancing, skiing, and team sports.
•  Real-Time Feedback: Offers immediate insights during testing for quick adjustments to training.

How It Works: Measures balance and core stability through dynamic movement assessments, utilizing advanced sensors to capture data on body positioning and movement patterns during various activities.

Functional Movement Analysis: Provides insights into movement patterns that enhance athletic performance and reduce injury risk.

DynaMo | Intuitive and verstile handhelp dynamometers (valdperformance.com)