Cycling Economy & Dynamic Biomechanical Assessment

Description

Stop Accommodating Your Limitations. Upgrade Your Biomechanics.

When you visit a traditional bike fitter, they place you on a static jig or on your bike on an indoor trainer. They move your saddle and handlebars to make you comfortable based on how tight your hamstrings are or how restricted your hips feel today. While this prevents injury, it does not make you a fundamentally more economical athlete — it simply accommodates your current structural flaws.

Our Cycling Economy Assessment flips the script. We analyze your performance dynamically under the shifting forces of real-world terrain. We track how your body segments acceleration, stabilization, and fatigue when fighting gravity on a steep climb, holding a line through a high-speed descent, or driving power out of a technical corner.

The Tech Stack: Capturing the Forces Within

To truly understand cycling economy, we look far beyond your power meter. We sync three distinct layers of athletic data:

Metabolic & Mechanical Output: Continual cross-analysis of your heart rate response against real-world wattage to establish your baseline energy cost of motion.

Vicon Blue Trident IMU Telemetry: Wearable, high-frequency inertial sensors are placed on key biomechanical landmarks. These sensors capture how micro-forces rip through your ankles, knees, pelvis, and spine in real-time.

Real-World Terrain Profiling

We map how your physical stability holds up across different riding states:

The Climb: Do your hips rock? Does your pelvis lose stability when out of the saddle, leaking valuable watts?

The Descent & Corner: How does your body absorb lateral G-forces? Are you structurally braced, or is muscular tension spiking and wasting precious glycogen?

The Missing Link: Your Targeted Dry-Land S&C Blueprint

The true value of this assessment happens when we step off the bike. By analyzing the data from our Vicon IMU sensors, we isolate the exact anatomical restrictions hurting your cycling economy. If your pelvis tilts or your knee tracking distorts under high climbing torques, the solution isn’t always to shift your saddle — it is to fix the underlying muscular asymmetry.

We provide a highly actionable, targeted Strength & Conditioning program to execute on dry land. We give you the exact mobility protocols, core stabilization drills, and kinetic chain exercises needed to change your physical structure. Instead of changing the bike to fit a restricted body, we enhance your biomechanics to build a faster, more powerful, and genuinely economical cyclist.

What’s Included in Your Assessment

Real-World Telemetry Ride: A structured field test tracking heart rate, power, and high-frequency IMU joint kinetics across climbs, descents, and corners.

Dynamic Force Analysis Report: A clean data breakdown illustrating exactly how your joints manage stress, where your movement pattern leaks energy, and how fatigue alters your posture.

Anatomical & Kinetic Chain Screen: A thorough dry-land physical assessment evaluating hip extension, thoracic mobility, and lumbo-pelvic control.

Bespoke S&C Performance Plan: A customized, targeted exercise program designed to eliminate your specific cycling limiters, stabilize your core, and unlock sustainable speed.

Important Session Preparation Rules

Your Bike & Gear: You must bring your primary road, gravel, or time-trial bike in perfect working order, along with your standard cycling kit, shoes, and computer.

Terrain Readiness: This assessment involves real outdoor riding. Be prepared to execute targeted efforts at various intensities, including climbing and cornering blocks.

Dry-Land Screen Dress: Please wear or bring athletic gym clothing (shorts and a t-shirt) for the off-bike musculoskeletal and movement screening phases.