We are thrilled to announce the launch of a suite of powerful new features and metrics. Some of these have been highly requested by you, while others are entirely new and unique—designed to make performance analysis more actionable and customizable.
All of these new features work together under one platform designed to empower you and your athletes. Start with the Feature Store to test what works for you, adopt the metrics that drive real improvement, and shape the way you present data so that athletes stay motivated and informed.
We’ve built this update not only to bring you closer to your athletes but also to meet your unique needs—giving you the flexibility, control, and tools to deliver truly personalized insights. Now, every decision you make is not only backed by science but also tailored specifically to your workflow, helping you and your athletes achieve lasting success.
If you’d prefer to watch, join our Founder, Sebastian Weber, as he explains everything we’ve launched in this exclusive webinar recording bellow. Or, if you’d rather read, explore the details below.
Let’s dive in!
Feature Store: A la carte selection of metrics, sports and feature you really want
We appreciate that every coach and lab has different needs and works with diverse athletes who will have different needs and requirements as well. And we understand that therefore required features and functions may vary greatly.
That’s why we created solutions that align with these unique requirements. Rather than forcing every user to invest in features or metrics that you may not need, we give you complete authority to choose and decide what works best for you and your athletes, ensuring you only pay for what you truly need.
That is why, we are introducing the Feature Store — a place where you can pick la carte features, metrics, sports and solutions that you need. This provides you full authority to decide what to use in your coaching and testing. With Feature Store you can explore, learn, try for free, and subscribe only to features and metrics you need without overpaying for those you don’t.
This ensures INSCYD subscriptions remain affordable, transparent and tailored to your individual needs while empowering every user to understand and improve performance based on the latest science and the unique physiology of each athlete.
The Feature Store enables you to:
Explore: Navigate seamlessly with filters to view all offerings or focus on specific categories: Metrics, Sports, Apps, and Customization Options.
Learn about features: Each feature, metric, sport or customization tool has its own dedicated page designed to educate and guide you. These pages include sections like:
Overview: What the feature does, why it matters, and its value for performance analysis.
Application: Practical guidance on how to apply it in real-world coaching and testing workflows.
Guidance: Instructions to set up and use the feature effectively, along with related INSCYD College courses and help center articles to ensure smooth implementation.
Science: Details into the scientific foundation behind each feature, complete with references to peer-reviewed research, so you can trust the tools you use. At INSCYD, everything we do is rooted in science—a core value we proudly uphold.
Trial everything for free: Every feature can be tested risk-free for 30 days, allowing you to validate its relevance and confidently integrate it into your workflow. After this free trial, you can cancel the feature at any time - no strings attached.
The Feature Store is built to scale with your needs. Whether you’re an independent coach managing a few athletes or a large lab seeking advanced analytical tools, the Feature Store provides cost efficiency, flexibility, and the opportunity to deliver enhanced service quality.
Lactate Threshold 1 (LT1): Even if you don’t do a lactate testing
Lactate Threshold 1 (LT1) marks the first significant increase in lactate concentration during incremental exercise—a widely used metric in endurance sports for setting training zones and tracking athlete progress. Many of you have requested this metric, but at INSCYD, we’ve taken it further.
Traditional LT1 measurement methods often suffer from inconsistencies caused by test protocols, equipment noise, and interpretation errors. Moreover, if you’re not conducting lactate testing, you simply don’t have access to LT1—a metric many athletes find interesting for their training.
INSCYD changes this. Now, you can get LT1—a standardized, protocol-independent calculation that works seamlessly across both lactate testing and non-lactate methods like Power-Performance Decoder (PPD). Yes, you read that correctly— even if you’re not performing lactate tests, you can now access LT1—accurately and reliably.
But we’re not stop here! Additionally, we’ve made LT1 retroactively applied to all your historical tests, allowing you to analyze it in your previous results without the need for re-testing.
And there’s even more:
Robust Against Errors: INSCYD’s best-fit lactate curve minimizes the impact of single measurement errors or device inaccuracies, providing trustworthy data for decision-making.
Simplified Training Zone Optimization: With LT1 integrated into the Training Zone Builder, you can set precise training intensities as a percentage of LT1, creating more effective and personalized training zones.
Seamless Integration: LT1 seamlessly integrates into the Metabolic Fingerprint, Physiological Performance Benchmarks, and Performance Development Chart, providing a holistic view of athlete progress.
By providing actionable, validated insights, LT1 builds trust with athletes, enabling better communication, smarter training decisions, and improved outcomes over time. No complicated setups, no guesswork—just data you can trust.
Recovery Index: Understand and monitor the ability of an athlete to recover from high lactate at a glance!
Understanding how different athletes are able to recover from high-intensity efforts can be tricky. That’s where the Recovery Index comes in.
The Recovery Index is a powerful metric that simplifies tracking and comparing the ability to recover from high lactate concentration. It takes two equally important factors into account:
a) the lactate recovery rate - how fast an athlete can clear lactate
b) at which intensity (power or speed) the athlete can do this.
By combining these two key elements, it delivers a single, clear value normalized from 0 to 100, making the analysis actionable, comparable, and easy and fast to interpret.
By streamlining recovery analysis, the Recovery Index eliminates the need for time-consuming and sometimes unclear visual interpretations of recovery curves and provides a single metric to monitor improvements over time or compare it between athletes and even different sports.
This efficiency allows you to focus more on actionable outcomes rather than wrestling with complex biochemical data.
Track Recovery Trends with Precision: Monitor the ability of an athlete to recover and identify even the smallest improvements over time.
Standardized and Comparable: Whether comparing a runner, cyclist, or swimmer, the Recovery Index normalizes recovery performance across different sports and genders and body weights.
Benchmark Against Athlete Profiles: Compare an athlete’s recovery performance to others in different sports or athlete categories for valuable context.
The Recovery Index enables you to make smarter and faster decisions about the development of an athlete. It provides reliable, science-backed data that builds confidence by offering insights that are easy to explain to athletes and stakeholders.
With the Recovery Index, you can finally measure and compare recovery like never before—ensuring that every decision you make drives athlete success.
Accumulation Index: Speed of accumulation of lactate in one simple metric
The Accumulation Index simplifies lactate analysis by providing a clear, standardized measure of how quickly lactate accumulates above MLSS (Maximal Lactate Steady State). It allows you to quickly and accurately understand how was an athlete accumulates lactate - in a standardized way and without the need to interpret the shape of lactate curves.
The Accumulation Index analyzes the steepness of the lactate accumulation curve and normalizes it on a 0–100 scale—regardless of sport, economy or efficiency, body composition, or gender.
Objective Insights: Instead of deciphering smallest changes in the accumulation graphs, you get a single, easy-to-understand value that indicates how fast lactate accumulates when intensity exceeds MLSS.
Cross-Sport Comparability: Normalized for sport, body composition, and gender, the Accumulation Index allows fair and meaningful comparisons.
Sensitive to Training Changes: Accurately captures even subtle improvements in lactate dynamics, helping track performance adaptations over time.
For instance, consider two athletes with the same anaerobic threshold (MLSS). By comparing their Accumulation Index, you can determine which athlete accumulates lactate more slowly, indicating greater resilience to high-intensity efforts. This insight informs training decisions, helping athletes sustain higher intensities for longer durations.
Accumulation Index delivers clear, actionable insights that are easy to interpret and communicate to athletes. It provides a competitive edge by simplifying complex lactate dynamics into a powerful, standardized metric.
With the Accumulation Index, you gain the clarity needed to optimize high-intensity training, benchmark athlete performance, and drive measurable progress—ensuring every session delivers results.
Custom Athlete Categories: Tailor Insights for EVERY Athlete
Many of you asked for the ability to go beyond our default categories like “Pro,” “Amateur,” and “Recreational”—and we listened. Default benchmarks may fail to capture the full nuances of individual athletes. This can lead to misaligned comparisons, demotivation, and reduced trust in results.
Now you can create fully Custom Athlete Categories empowering you to define your own performance benchmarks based on attributes such as age, gender, event type, or training level. With your own categories and benchmarks you can customize your dashboards.
This feature allows you to ensure your athletes’ data is contextual, personalized, and truly reflective of their unique profiles.
With Custom Athlete Categories, you can:
Deliver Relevant Comparisons: Create performance benchmarks that align with your athletes’ specific attributes, ensuring fair, credible, and tailored insights.
Motivate and Engage Athletes: Athletes see themselves compared to the right peer group, which builds trust, understanding and drives long-term engagement and boost motivation.
Streamline Insights: Custom categories appear seamlessly in key INSCYD graphs, such as Performance Benchmarks and Metabolic Fingerprint, for clear visualization and reporting.
By allowing you to customize categories, INSCYD ensures that every data point is meaningful and actionable—whether for youth athletes, age-specific groups, or specialized events.
With Custom Athlete Categories, you deliver insights that motivate, inspire, and empower every athlete to perform at their best.
Visualization: Customize Graphs to Show Only What Matters to You and Your Athletes
Many of you asked for more flexibility in customizing how data is presented—and we delivered. The Visualization feature allows you to customize the data displayed in your athlete performance center—tailoring insights to match specific sports, athletes, and training goals.
By focusing only to show the most relevant metrics, customizing visualization ensures every data point serves a clear purpose, eliminating distractions and delivering actionable insights.
Not personalized visualization can often overwhelm or distract athletes and stakeholders with irrelevant information, causing confusion and reducing the impact of the data.
With Visualization, you can:
Customize: Adjust visuals to show or hide specific metrics per sport, ensuring clarity and relevance.
Personalize Graphs: Tailor Performance Benchmarks, Metabolic Fingerprint, and Performance Development Charts to fit the needs of swimmers, cyclists, runners, or any other sport you coach.
Enhance Athlete Engagement: Present clean, focused visuals that resonate with athletes, helping them understand their progress, stay motivated and improve trust.
Save Time and Effort: No need for external tools, screenshots, or manual reports—streamline your workflow directly within the INSCYD platform.
For example, a triathlon coach can set up separate dashboards for swimming, cycling, and running, displaying only the metrics that matter for each sport. This ensures athletes receive insights tailored to their specific discipline, boosting engagement and understanding.
With custom visualization, every chart and graph becomes a tool for clarity, precision, and progress—empowering you to communicate insights effectively and helping athletes stay focused on achieving their goals.
Sport Settings: Precision Control for Sport-Specific Insights
The Sport Settings feature gives you full flexibility to manage and tailor performance analysis to the unique demands of each sport. One-size-fits-all configurations often fail to capture the nuances of sport-specific performance.
Sport Settings is an advanced feature that allows for customization such as configuring custom athlete categories or selecting the units you want to use for speed, pace or power.
But it also allows you to set specific testing conditions: think of different pool length in swimming, uphill running or different equipment used. If you have specific needs - especially for field based testing in free motion sports - sport settings will do the trick for you.
With Sport Settings You Can:
Customize X-Axis in Graphs: Choose specific units like distance, time, or speed to display metrics in the most relevant format for your sport.
Set Conditional Energy Demand Values: Adjust energy demand values to reflect the metabolic requirements of your sport.
This level of control ensures that you and your athletes get the most relevant and actionable that drives performance and progress.
If you have questions about setting up sport configuration for specific needs, please don’t hesitate to contact us via email at [email protected] or through the in-app chat located at the bottom right corner.
With this powerful update, INSCYD is redefining what’s possible in performance analysis. From the flexibility of the Feature Store to the precision of Recovery Index, LT1, and Accumulation Index, to tailored insights with Custom Athlete Categories, Visualization and Sport Settings, these tools empower you to focus on what truly matters—your athletes’ success.
We designed this update with you in mind, giving you the control, clarity, and science-backed insights you need to deliver personalized, actionable results. Every decision you make is now sharper, faster, and more impactful.
Take the next step in your journey and explore how INSCYD’s innovations can transform your athletes’ performance. The future of sports science is here—and it’s yours to shape.