As a competitive athlete how do you know you are maximizing your efforts? Do you know your lactate threshold and are you utilizing it in training to optimize your performance? Is your desire to improve your fitness or performance levels? Do you know how hard you should be working out? Are you always on the “injured” list?

Learning to train smarter, not harder is not an easy concept to embrace for the dedicated, motivated, hard-working individual. Often, when a person starts a workout program, the fitter they get and better they feel, the harder they are inclined to work out. Their tendencies are to continually chase their fitness level, and in time, they become exhausted, injured and fail to improve—they finish less than best.

Training smarter, not harder is about knowing your optimal aerobic fat burning level and lactate threshold. Training through various heart rate zones move your aerobic base and threshold level higher, ultimately increasing overall performance.

Through The Metabolic Institute's advanced testing techniques, we will define your aerobic base (most efficient heart rate for fat burning), lactate threshold (heart rate at which glucose metabolism is predominant) and VO2 peak level (genetic potential for performance) to help you understand how your body performs. Laboratory testing to evaluate cellular metabolism, energy efficiency and to detect any hindrances to performance are also carried out.

To complete the package, this information along with our nutrition program to support your workout and “periodization” training schedule increases your body's oxygen utilization, strength, endurance and can push your performance level to produce peak results.

This application of proven scientific principles allows your body to train and perform better while recovering faster. This all translates into a better position at the finish line.

Our goal at The Metabolic Institute is to help you train smarter, not harder!