← esMetabolicLab

Lab-level metabolic profiling — without the lab.

The same model the sports-science labs use, built entirely from your own data via a blood-lactate step test you run at home, or with a coach, at a fraction of the cost.

Single session

One paired upload, refinable for a week.

$30/test
One-time · 7-day window
  • Sprint test + lactate step test
  • VO₂max, sustainable threshold, easy-zone limit, fat-burning peak
  • Custom Training Zones
  • Downloadable PDF report
  • Refinable for 7 days from purchase

Best for one-off testing.

Lifetime

One payment, unlimited uploads forever.

$90once
Pays for itself in year 2
  • Sprint test + lactate step test
  • VO₂max, sustainable threshold, easy-zone limit, fat-burning peak
  • Custom Training Zones
  • Downloadable PDF reports
  • Unlimited tests · never expires
  • Future esMetabolicLab features included

Best value, long-term.

In-person test

A coach runs the protocol with you. We bring the meter.

$145/session
Boulder / Denver area
  • Coach runs sprint + step-test protocol
  • Lactate meter, strips, supplies provided
  • ~90-min in-person session
  • Same VO₂max + threshold + fat-burning outputs
  • Custom Training Zones
  • Results explained 1-on-1

Highest accuracy. Run by a human.

What your metabolic profile tells you

Your aerobic + anaerobic ceilings

VO₂max (how much oxygen you can use) and how fast you produce lactate at peak effort — the two engines that shape every metric below.

Your real thresholds

The line between sustainable and unsustainable effort, the top of your easy zone, and where your race-day fitness actually sits.

Where you burn fat fastest

The intensity that maxes out fat-burning. The pace you can hold forever, the foundation of every aerobic-base block.

Training zones built for you

Training zones for cycling, running, and base-building — built entirely from your own data, not population averages. Paste them straight into your training app.

A fueling strategy that fits

Grams of carbohydrate per minute at every intensity — so you know how much to eat on long runs, race day, and intervals before you bonk.

A pacing target for your event

Half-marathon pace, hour-long all-out power, ultra pace — all derivable from your lactate test. The number you can hold, not the number you hope you can.

What changes when you measure instead of estimate?

Free — power / pace-only profile

Your anaerobic engine is estimated from sprint power using a published formula. VO₂max comes from your 6-minute max effort, using a standard relation. Useful as a directional read on your training zones — but lactate production varies a lot at any given sprint output, and those errors cascade through to your thresholds, fat-burning peak, and fueling estimates.

Paid — measured-lactate profile

Your anaerobic engine is measured from blood lactate at peak sprint effort, and your full step test pins down your thresholds and fat-burning peak directly. The same model the sports-science labs use, built entirely from your own data instead of population averages.