Performance Testing in Zurich: Determining VO₂max and training zones on an individual basis
Do you train regularly, but aren’t quite sure whether your training intensity really matches your goal?
With our uVida Performance Analysis in Zurich We measure your respiratory gases during a structured graded exercise test. This provides us with personalised data on your VO₂max, your heart rate zones, your fat metabolism during exercise, your ventilatory thresholds and your maximum performance capacity.
We’ll then explain your results in a way that’s easy to understand and show you exactly how you can use them to inform your training.
CHF 159.– | approx. 45 minutes | Zurich Enge
uVida Activity Breathing Gas Analysis
Personalised training zones
Personal assessment
For beginners and athletes
Zurich Enge
Your performance analysis provides these figures
VO₂max
VO₂max describes the maximum amount of oxygen your body can take in and utilise during high-intensity exercise.
It is an important indicator of your endurance capacity and helps you to assess your current fitness level more objectively.
Personalised heart rate zones
You’ll be given personalised heart rate zones for different training intensities.
This allows you to tailor your light endurance sessions, base training, threshold training and high-intensity intervals more precisely.
FATmax
FATmax refers to the exercise intensity at which your body achieves its highest fat-burning rate during the test.
This figure may be particularly relevant for general endurance, weight management and prolonged endurance activities.
Ventilation thresholds
The first and second ventilatory thresholds – VT1 and VT2 – mark important transitions within your exercise zones.
They help us to distinguish more clearly between your light, moderate and intense training zones.
Maximum performance
Depending on the test protocol, we record your maximum power output in watts or your speed or pace.
We will also be looking at your maximum heart rate during the test.
Regeneration
We analyse how your body reacts immediately after exercise and how quickly relevant readings return to normal.
This provides further guidance for planning training workload and recovery.
What is performance assessment?
A fitness assessment examines how your body reacts to progressively greater physical exertion.
During the test, you will wear a breathing mask. At the same time, your breathing gases and heart rate will be monitored whilst the exercise intensity is gradually increased.
Among other things, the uVida Activity System analyses:
how much oxygen your body takes in
how much carbon dioxide you breathe out
which energy sources your body uses at different intensities
how your heart rate changes as the intensity increases
where your individual threshold ranges lie
what maximum power you achieve in the test
This results in a personalised performance profile.
The results show not only that, how well you’re currently performing, but above all, which areas you should focus on when training, so that you can work towards your personal goal more effectively.
Would you like to understand better how basic endurance works? Find out more in our guide to Zone 2 training.
Why measure training zones rather than just estimating them?
Many training plans and fitness watches determine heart rate zones using general formulas, age-based calculations or standardised percentages.
This can be helpful as a starting point. However, it does not fully take into account how your body actually reacts under stress.
Two people of the same age and with the same maximum heart rate may have different thresholds, different metabolic profiles and different optimal training zones.
Conventional estimation
General age formulas
percentage ranges of the maximum heart rate
standardised training zones
no direct measurement of respiratory gases
limited consideration of an individual’s fitness level
Performance analysis in Ultimate
structured proficiency test
Breath gas analysis during exercise
personalised heart rate zones
personal thresholds
VO₂max and FATmax
clear recommendations for training and recovery
Your sports watch tracks your training. Performance diagnostics help you to set it up correctly.
Once the analysis is complete, you can transfer your personalised heart rate zones to your watch and manage your daily training in a more targeted way.
Who would benefit from a performance assessment?
Our performance analysis is not just intended for competitive athletes.
It is suitable for anyone who no longer wishes to plan their endurance training solely on the basis of how they feel or general heart rate formulas.
Runners and marathon runners
Would you like to improve your basic endurance, get a better sense of your race pace, or prepare specifically for a half-marathon or marathon?
This analysis helps you to distinguish more clearly between easy endurance runs, tempo runs and high-intensity sessions.
Cyclists and triathletes
Personalised heart rate and power zones allow you to tailor your cycling sessions more precisely.
Depending on the test protocol, your results can also be converted into watt ranges.
HYROX and Hybrid athletes
In HYROX and other hybrid competitions, endurance challenges alternate with strength-endurance challenges.
A good aerobic base, high oxygen uptake and rapid recovery between periods of exertion can therefore be crucial factors in performance.
Fitness enthusiasts and team sports players
Whether it’s tennis, football, martial arts or general fitness training, good endurance helps you to sustain exertion for longer and recover more quickly between periods of intense activity.
Beginners and those returning to the sport
You don’t need to be fit already to benefit from a performance analysis.
The placement test is tailored to your current level of ability. This means that, right from the start, you’ll be given materials that match your actual starting point.
People who have hit a training plateau
Do you train regularly, but find your performance is hardly improving any more? Performance diagnostics show whether your training intensity, aerobic base or threshold zones are set at the optimal levels. This enables us to tailor your training specifically and introduce new performance stimuli.
This is how your performance analysis in Zurich works
1. Goals and health consultation
To start with, we’ll discuss your personal goal, your sport, your current training regime and your current level of performance.
We also clarify the relevant health requirements for the stress test.
2. Preparation and warm-up
We’ll explain the procedure to you, fit the breathing mask and get you ready for the test.
After a short warm-up, the actual grading test begins.
3. Exercise stress test
The intensity is gradually increased on the treadmill or exercise bike.
Meanwhile, your respiratory gases, heart rate and performance are continuously monitored. The actual stress test usually lasts about 20 minutes.
4. Personal assessment
After the test, we’ll go through your results step by step.
Among other things, you’ll learn:
- how your current VO₂max compares
- where your individual training zones lie
- at what intensity your fat metabolism is at its highest
- where your ventilatory thresholds lie
- how you can use your heart rate, pace or wattage zones during training
- which training areas are most relevant to your goal
Total duration of the appointment: approx. 45 minutes
What do your results mean for your training?
A list of measurements alone won’t improve your performance.
The crucial step is to translate the results into a concrete training strategy.
Basic endurance and Zone 2
Your lower training zones form the basis for longer, controlled endurance sessions.
They are particularly important if you want to build up your aerobic base, cope better with longer periods of exertion or increase your training volume.
Fat Metabolism Training
Using your FATmax value, we can determine the intensity at which your body achieves its highest fat-burning rate during the measurement.
This information can be used for longer endurance sessions and targeted metabolic development.
Threshold and speed training
Your threshold zones help us to plan intense but manageable training loads in a more targeted way.
This is relevant, for example, for tempo runs, longer intervals and competition-specific sessions.
VO₂max and interval training
Targeted, high-intensity intervals can be used to improve maximum oxygen uptake.
Your analysis provides the basis for tailoring these sessions to your current fitness level.
Recovery and exercise management
Not every training session needs to be intense.
Your personalised zones help to distinguish more clearly between high-intensity and low-intensity sessions and avoid unnecessary fatigue.
Performance analysis for your sporting goal
Marathon and half-marathon
Preparing for a successful marathon involves more than just running as many kilometres as possible.
The key is to strike the right balance between easy endurance runs, longer runs, tempo runs, interval training, strength training and recovery.
Your performance analysis provides personalised heart rate and pace zones, which can be used to plan these sessions in a more targeted way.
Cycling and Triathlon
When cycling, training intensity can also be controlled using wattage figures.
The combination of heart rate, power output, respiratory gases and perceived exertion provides a better basis for structured training planning.
Your performance analysis provides personalised heart rate and pace zones, which can be used to plan these sessions in a more targeted way.
HYROX and functional fitness
At HYROX, running sessions alternate with functional training.
Performance testing helps you to better assess your aerobic capacity, your threshold performance and your recovery during exercise.
Health and Weight Management
Even if you don’t have a competition goal, a performance analysis can still be useful.
It shows you the areas in which you can train in a controlled manner and how to tailor your endurance training to your current level of fitness.
Exercise analysis or metabolic analysis – what’s the difference?
Both analyses measure respiratory gases. However, they address different questions.
Resting metabolic analysis
The metabolic analysis is carried out whilst at rest.
It provides information on your basal metabolic rate as well as your fat and carbohydrate metabolism at rest.
The key question is:
How does your body use energy at rest?
Performance analysis under stress
The performance assessment takes place during an increasingly demanding level test.
Among other things, it provides information on VO₂max, heart rate zones, FATmax, thresholds and maximum performance.
The key question is:
How does your body react to physical exertion, and how should you exercise?
The combination
If you want to base your nutrition and training on a shared set of data, you can combine both analyses.
This allows us to assess both your resting metabolic rate and your response to exercise.
Prices for your analyses
performance analysis
CHF 159.-
The fitness analysis is based on a fitness test lasting approximately 20 minutes. You’ll find out your individual heart rate zones, including your VO₂max, as well as your current fitness level compared to others of your age and gender.
Duration: 60 minutes
Metabolism & performance analysis
CHF 269.-
Get a comprehensive analysis of your body: The metabolic analysis shows you your calorie consumption and the distribution of energy sources at rest. The performance analysis determines your heart rate zones, VO2max and fitness in comparison to your age group.
Duration: 90 minutes
At Ultimate, data is the starting point – not the end result
A performance analysis will only change your training if you use the data correctly.
That is why, at Ultimate, our support does not end with an analysis report.
1. Trade fairs
We assess your current performance under standardised conditions.
2. Understanding
We’ll explain which factors are crucial to achieving your goal and how they are linked.
3. Implementation
We translate the results into clear training zones and specific recommendations.
4. Check
Following a structured training block, a follow-up assessment can show how your performance, your thresholds and your training zones have developed.
How to prepare for performance testing
To ensure that your results are as easy to interpret as possible and that future measurements can be compared, you should attend the test under similar conditions.
- Try to arrive at your appointment as well-rested as possible.
- Avoid intensive training just before the test.
- Do not eat a large or hard-to-digest meal immediately before your appointment.
- Make sure you drink plenty of water beforehand.
- Please bring clean trainers and suitable sportswear.
- Please let us know in advance about any relevant medical conditions, symptoms or medication.
- Postpone the appointment if you have an acute illness or an infection.
You will receive the exact instructions on how to prepare again with your appointment confirmation.
Safety notice
The uVida Activity Performance Analysis is a sports performance analysis and not a medical examination.
If you have a known cardiovascular or respiratory condition, unexplained chest pain, shortness of breath, dizziness or other exercise-related symptoms, you should seek medical advice before taking part.
Performance testing in Zurich Enge
Your performance analysis takes place directly in the Ultimate Personal Training Studio in Zurich Enge instead.
Ultimate Personal Training AG
Jenatschstrasse 3
8002 Zurich
Our studio is located just a few minutes’ walk from Zurich Enge railway station and is easily accessible by public transport and by car.
You can also book a performance analysis even if you are not currently a personal training client at Ultimate.
Frequently asked questions about performance testing in Zurich
On this page, we use both terms to refer to the same service.
„Performance diagnostics“ is the more commonly used technical term. „Performance analysis“ clearly describes the actual measurement and evaluation of your current performance level.
The uVida Activity Analysis tracks, amongst other things, your respiratory gases, heart rate, VO₂max, individual training zones, FATmax, ventilatory thresholds, maximum power output and post-exercise recovery.
The appointment will take about 45 minutes in total.
This includes the initial consultation, the preparation, the placement test and the personal assessment.
A performance analysis at Ultimate Personal Training costs CHF 159.-.
The combination of metabolic and performance analysis costs CHF 269.–.
No.
The placement test is tailored to your current level of ability and is therefore suitable for beginners and those returning to the sport, as well as for ambitious recreational and competitive athletes.
Depending on the sport, the objective and the test protocol, performance analysis is carried out on a treadmill or a bike ergometer.
Before the test, we’ll discuss which option makes the most sense for you.
The workload is monitored and increased gradually.
The extent of the test depends on the chosen protocol, your physical condition and your goal. You will be given a detailed explanation of the procedure before it begins.
A sports watch is excellent for tracking your heart rate, pace, performance and training sessions in your day-to-day life.
However, many training zones and VO₂max values are estimated using algorithms. With the uVida performance analysis, your respiratory gases are also measured during a controlled exercise test.
Once you’ve carried out the analysis, you can transfer the results to your sports watch.
The metabolic analysis is carried out whilst you are at rest and assesses your basal metabolic rate as well as how your body utilises fat and carbohydrates.
The performance analysis is carried out whilst you are exercising and assesses your performance capacity, training zones, thresholds and VO₂max.
That depends on your goal and your training phase.
It is particularly useful to carry out a further analysis following a structured training block or before starting preparations for a new competition. This allows changes to be assessed objectively and training zones to be adjusted.
Yes.
The performance analysis can be booked as a standalone service, independently of a personal training membership.
No.
The analysis is used to monitor sporting performance and training. It is not a substitute for a medical examination, a stress ECG or medical spiroergometry.
Don’t train harder. Train more effectively.
Find out which level of intensity really suits your body and your goal.
With our Performance assessment in Zurich you’ll receive personalised data on your VO₂max, your training zones, your FATmax, your thresholds and your maximum performance capacity.
We’ll explain your results in a way that’s easy to understand and show you how you can apply them directly to your training.
Performance analysis | CHF 159.– | approx. 45 minutes | Zurich Enge
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