If you want to take your own training and performance ever closer to your true potential then metabolic profiling is the way to go. Our partners at Absolute Body Concepts of Dubai/UK offer a highly focused one-off testing session (delivered at Kinetic-Ones base in Stroud) which will put you in the driving seat.
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Olympians and other top-level athletes have access to human performance labs, where cutting-edge science and top trainers and coaches work to help them wring every bit of excellence from their bodies and minds.
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Whether you’re an elite racer or triathlete who needs an edge on the other guy in the race, or if you’ve limited time to train and want to train “smarter”, or if you are a regular athlete like most of us - yet your training simply doesn’t yield the tangible results you’d like to think it could – then having a performance lab right at your fingertips will give you the inside track on achieving your full athletic potential.
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Who is Metabolic Profiling for?
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Metabolic profiling is ideally suited to YOU if you would like to:
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- Improve physical performance – establish and train in the right exercise heart rate zones unique to you, improve your anaerobic threshold, train your body to burn fat and increase your endurance and speed.
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- Sustainably lose fat - understand your current fat, muscle, fluid composition, consume the right number of calories and train in the right exercise heart rate zones to increase your metabolism and sustainably lose fat.
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Many athletes are familiar with the concept of training zones and indeed there are now a considerable number of training manuals and programmes (such as Training Peaks) which base their entire training approach on working to HR zones! This is all good … except for one thing!
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It is not possible to estimate or theorize where your own HR zones actually are!
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They are unique to each individual and can vary enormously from person to person. All this means that many people now train religiously with a vague notional idea of where their HR zones (or power zones) are.
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Metabolic profiling scientifically pinpoints where your own specific zones are and ensures that your hard-earned training effort is not wasted and actually hits the sweet spot!
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You wouldn’t drive a car without knowing how to drive it, or what type of fuel it took, or how much fuel you might need to complete your journey. Yet most of us do just this with our bodies!
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At best this leaves our performance on the bike as guesswork ….. At worst it leaves us stranded – lacking in knowledge of how to train, where to train, when to train, and how to fuel ourselves!
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So, what is metabolic profiling?
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ABC’s specialist staff will scientifically establish your current fitness level and your body's fat and glycogen burning heart rate zones using proven techniques. During the assessment they will measure:
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Resting metabolic rate – the number of calories that your body needs to function at rest and your fuel mixture (fat vs glycogen)
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Anaerobic threshold – the heart rate when your body switches from burning mainly fat to burning mainly glycogen which determines the intensity at which you should be exercising to train your body to burn fat
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Body composition analysis – the proportion of fat, fluid and lean muscle mass in your body
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Blood pressure
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What do you get from the Assessment?
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The assessment will tell you where your Anaerobic Threshold (AT) is. It will also tell you how aerobically efficient you are across your aerobic base.
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With this valuable information and correct training regime your body will make adaptations which will improve your aerobic capacity and efficiency, help move your anaerobic threshold higher, train your body to burn fat as a preferred fuel.
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At the end of the assessment we explain your individual results to you, including your metabolic profile, which defines the calorie intake required to fuel your body, and your heart rate training zones which define the optimal exercise intensity for you. You will be emailed a set of results data with helpful tips and training advice.
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“Our metabolic profile will finally give meaning to the numbers on your heart rate monitor and provide you with the insight to enable you to make immediate changes to help you meet your goals. “
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Book Your Session Now!
As ABC are based both in Dubai and in the UK. Kinetic-One will take your booking and will match you up to one of ABC’s UK days most convenient for you. These days currently happen every month or so.
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The next available dates are provisionally scheduled as: FEB 2012
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The session normal costs £250. We are offering a special introductory rate of £200. We will take a £50 deposit from you at time of booking and the balance is payable at your session. If for any reason you are unable to make your session we can rearrange it for a future day.When you book we will send you full information about your session: including what to wear, what to bring and how to get to Kinetic-One.
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BEYOND YOUR SESSION: ABC TRAINING PROGRAMMES
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You can either use the results of your session yourself to inform your training and competition goals. Or, if you are unsure how to do this or if you want to go further with ABC, then they can write you an individual training programme. There is a fee of course for this additonal involvement.
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This training programme is provided through your own individual account on a high-tech but easy-to-use online porthole. ABC open an online porthole which is valid for a month at a time which will hold all your data and training sessions on a calendar, this is where you and ABC working together can keep track of your training. Each workout will also be emailed to you the day before to any computer or smart phone.
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Its hugely versatile and you can even upload data to your porthole with Polar & Garmin training devices and heart rate monitors which assists ABC to support your progress as scientifically as is currently possible!
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