Aerobic Performance Package
Unlock your full aerobic potential. Combine VOâ‚‚ max, Lactate Threshold, and Substrate Utilization testing at the CHAMP Center for a complete, performance driven view of your aerobic fitness.
Aerobic Performance Package
Gain a comprehensive understanding of your endurance capacity
Aerobic performance is best understood when multiple modalities are considered, providing a dynamic view of how your body delivers oxygen, manages fatigue, and fuels effort across a range of intensities. The CHAMP Center’s Aerobic Performance Package integrates three complementary assessments to evaluate the key physiological systems that best determine endurance capacity, efficiency, and sustainable performance.
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This package includes:
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VOâ‚‚ Max Test: Measures maximal oxygen uptake, reflecting how efficiently your heart, lungs, blood, and muscles deliver and utilize oxygen during high intensity exercise. VOâ‚‚ max defines your aerobic ceiling and provides insight into cardiovascular fitness, training potential, and long-term health. Learn More >
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Lactate Threshold (LT): Identifies the exercise intensities at which lactate begins to accumulate and fatigue accelerates. These thresholds define how much of your aerobic capacity can be sustained in training and competition and are essential for establishing precise training zones for endurance, tempo, and interval work. Learn More >
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Substrate Utilization (SU): Assesses how your body uses fat and carbohydrates for fuel at different exercise intensities. This information guides pacing, fueling, and training strategies to improve endurance efficiency, delay fatigue, and enhance metabolic flexibility. Learn More >
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Optional Zone 2 Focus: For individuals who are specifically interested in identifying their Zone 2 training intensity, Zone 2 testing may be substituted for the full Lactate Threshold assessment. Substituting Zone 2 maintains package flexibility while preserving physiological accuracy for clients with more targeted goals. Note: pricing remains the same. Learn More >
Why These Assessments?
Individually, each assessment provides valuable insight. Together, they create a complete picture of how your aerobic system performs across different intensities and conditions.
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Integrate oxygen delivery, fatigue management, and fuel utilization to understand how cardiovascular, muscular, and metabolic systems work together during exercise.
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Define individualized training zones based on heart rate, pace, or power using both lactate thresholds and substrate data rather than generalized formulas.
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Optimize endurance performance by aligning training intensity and fueling strategies with your actual physiology.
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Reduce guesswork in programming by identifying the intensities you can sustain efficiently and those that require greater recovery.
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Track progress across multiple dimensions including aerobic capacity, endurance efficiency, and metabolic flexibility to guide long term training decisions.
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Testing Schedule:​
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VOâ‚‚ Max, LT, and SU are combined into a two-part, graded exercise protocol and are completed on the same test day.
Outcome:
By combining VOâ‚‚ max, Lactate Threshold, and Substrate Utilization testing, the Aerobic Performance Package provides a data driven roadmap for smarter, more effective endurance training. Whether your goal is competitive performance, improved efficiency, or sustainable aerobic development, this package delivers objective insight into how your body performs, adapts, and fuels effort across intensities.