Diagnostics

Test Your Performance Ability!

If you want to definitely reach your athletic goals, you need a training plan. And this plan is, on the other hand, based on precise sports medical diagnostic tests. But a modern sports medical diagnosis is essential in the areas of regeneration and disease prevention as well.

Performance diagnostics draw precise conclusions about your performance ability, capacity for strenuous activity and level of physical fitness. They help in assessing your athletic potential and in preparing an individual training plan.



Performance diagnostics are performed during so-called ergometric testing procedures on the bicycle or treadmill in the laboratory, by means of biomechanical testing equipment and also in field tests. Depending on the testing procedure, the cardiovascular system (ECG, pulse, blood pressure), the metabolism (lactate=lactic acid), as well as the respiratory system (breathing rate, respiratory volume, oxygen absorption, lipometabolism fat burning level, etc.) are subjected to a close analysis during strenuous activity.

Thanks to sensitive diagnostic tests – which recognize deviations from the ideal state of health long before the onset of any apparent disease – it is possible for us to take individual steps to maintain good health.

On the basis of complex diagnostic testing, every guest receives information about his or her:

• State of health and capacity for strenuous activity
• Current performance ability
• Individual aerobic and anaerobic thresholds as important points of reference for training guidance
• Goal-oriented, individual activity intensities with pulse guidelines, to improve overall endurance and athletic performance ability and to help achieve individual training goals (fat burning, muscular endurance)
• Individual training counseling and planning in the course of comprehensive discussions with the trainers regarding health requirements, the current performance data and personal goals
• Progress, prognosis, talent /aptitude tests.

Performance diagnostics are helpful for hobby, amateur and professional athletes alike: you train at the individual stress intensity and duration levels that are right for you. Training becomes more goal-oriented and more effective; you’ll achieve more in a shorter time while guarding against overexertion.

When is performance diagnostic testing a good idea?

A performance diagnostic test is wise when beginning or resuming training, as well as during an extended training process and at the beginning or end of training periods. You should definitely have diagnostic testing done in the event of a decline in performance or especially when you’re experiencing performance slumps.

Which methods?

Lactate (lactic acid) is an important by-product of the anaerobic metabolism process. The lactate measurement is performed on capillarial blood, which is drawn at various levels of activity during the test. This is done by pricking the earlobe with a small lancet and taking a drop of blood. Conclusions about the metabolic levels in the muscles can be drawn on the basis of the lactate concentrations in the blood. This reliably determines the anaerobic threshold and the heart rates at the different training levels.

The spiroergometry test measures the amount of oxygen absorbed and the carbon dioxide emitted during strenuous activity. The breath is analyzed using a face mask. This allows the anaerobic threshold and the metabolic situation to be determined more precisely at various exercise intensity levels. The maximum oxygen absorption is also determined as a criterion for the subject’s endurance performance ability. The test also determines how large a proportion of the extracted energy comes from fats and carbohydrates at every intensity level of activity.

Another complex performance diagnostic testing method is used in addition to the standard ergometric methods. It primarily determines the subject’s speed, agility, reaction speed and strength (TDS). Using a combination of a computer network and testing equipment, 18 different tests can be performed, with which 33 factors can be ascertained about the subject’s athletic motor activity and performance ability.


The infrared spectrometric body fat measurement is a simple method for analyzing the body’s fat and lean masses. A sensor is placed on specific places on the body to measure its proportion of body fat.

The ideal weight can also be established for the respective sport and/or whether one is overweight or underweight. Together with the somatogram (which determines the body’s proportions), a great deal of information is gathered about the athlete’s physical constitution. On the basis of the ergospirometrically-measured data, the person’s oxygen absorption and individual daily caloric requirements can be calculated, as well as the caloric requirements for exercising at the aerobic and anaerobic thresholds.

Our state-of-the-art laboratory plus our close association with Austria’s leading laboratory physicians also enables special blood tests to be performed upon request (e.g. hormone analysis, amino acid status, anti-oxidant status and many others).

In the event of individual problems, a series of muscle function tests to ascertain possible muscle dysbalances (shortened muscles, muscular atrophy) enable a timely intervention with the appropriate exercises. Modern measuring equipment to determine the patient’s leg musculature strength, coordination capabilities and mental reaction patterns round out our comprehensive diagnostics.