The most reliable training system ever.

We’ve created a unique measurement technology in CYCCESS. Targeted performance management enables athletes from all disciplines to maximise their performance. At the same time, our system makes sure that human resources are used responsibly. 


 This opens up a new dimension in sport:

  • Top performance

  • Maximum health stability

  • At exactly the right time.

 
 

01 High-precision performance measurement

The measurements taken by our measuring plate capture athletes’ current performance status. We have developed a special methodology for measuring the effects of previous training on muscles, the nervous system and overall resilience. These are the most important prerequisites for successful training.

 

  • By jumping on a Cyccess measuring plate! Jumping is a natural movement that uses all of your muscles. The test only takes about 5 minutes, and can easily be taken before each training session. Different jumping styles make different demands on the nerve-muscle system. By measuring these differences, the system can derive the nervous and muscular components. Approx. 100 parameters are analysed with each jump. Since you’re using your whole body, the performance measurements provide data that’s relevant for athletes in all disciplines – including canoeists, for example, who primarily train their upper body.

02 Evaluation and personalised planning

The Cyccess software evaluates the data. Our unique algorithm calculates resilience or training capacity from the performance measurements, which enables training to be individually and precisely planned.

The percentage value shows WHICH AREAS and HOW MUCH to work on to achieve the greatest effect. The calculation is highly complex and includes a multitude of factors – from muscle fatigue to general stress.

 

  • Training only leads to improvement if it’s geared towards your current resilience! This misconception often still prevails even in professional sports: “The more you train, the better!” This is where the biggest mistakes are made. Just because you complete a training session doesn’t mean that it’s effective. Training should result in adaptation or improvement. That can only work if the training stimulus is precisely aligned with your current resilience.

  • Is strength training better with heavy loads or with fast exercises? Should I improve my endurance with short intervals or long workouts? The data from the performance measurement answer these questions. Our algorithm calculates in which load area the best training effect can currently be achieved. This target area is displayed in the software's training compass: the scaling ranges from “Frequency” – meaning training with low resistance and high frequency of movement – to “Strength” – working with high loads.

 
 
 
 

03 Your training– precise and effective

Now, it’s up to you to consistently and precisely put the training into practice. Because the more precisely you train, the more effective the impact! Your perfect training plan is created from the more than 5,000 exercises listed in the Cyccess software. Each individual exercise is parameterised and animated.

Tests are repeated after a training phase of 1 to 2 weeks, and the training is modified again. This avoids overstraining and undesirable developments, so the training is always geared to producing the optimal effect.

The founders of CYCCESS

About us and how it all began.

  • “Effective training over the long term is an extremely high aspiration. Training has to be very finely tuned and individually tailored to enable top performance.”

    I began working intensively on optimising training during my time as an assistant at the Institute for Sports Science at the University of Innsbruck. My own experience as a competitive alpine skier, as a trainer with the Austrian Ski Association and the findings from numerous scientific research projects were key prerequisites for developing a new, effective training system. But the greatest ongoing learning and development process only began with the daily application of the measurement technology implemented by Thomas. For 30 years, I have been looking after top athletes who have won numerous Olympic and world championship medals during this time. More and more Olympic centres, clinics, major sports associations and clubs rely on our successful training system.

 

  • “Controlling sports training with measurement technology is a very complex matter, and that was precisely what appealed to me.”

    As a mechatronics engineer at the Institute for Sports Science at the University of Innsbruck, I shared an office with a sports scientist – that's how the collaboration with Harald began. After a few joint projects, we took the leap and set up our own company in 2001. We started by developing a highly specialised measuring technique for capturing muscle performance. Since then, I have been designing and optimising algorithms that record athletic training using physical parameters, which makes it controllable. I’m especially pleased that we succeeded in measuring fatigue as a complex variable for the very first time. In addition to metrological expertise, I have a business degree, so I’m also responsible for business matters. My vision is to establish our unique technology as the gold standard in training worldwide.

 

Any questions?

 

  • Training capacity is determined using a highly complex algorithm, which first calculates the measurement parameters from all 4 jump styles to the 3 basic neuromuscular variables and then to the resulting capacity factor. Individual performance/strength and speed parameters are included in the calculation with different weightings. It includes all of a person’s stored data, the whole history. In this way, it is possible to break down in minute detail how the muscle/nervous system has changed and how high the person’s current resilience is.

  • If it’s just an acute drop, in which the reserve capacity has only been reduced for 1–2 weeks, then it’s still quite possible to complete at a high level. But in any case, the drop means that further exertion will not lead to positive effects, but to further deterioration. What’s needed is clarification and a recovery phase!

  • Yes, exactly. The detailed analysis in the fitness window provides the relevant information. For example, overexertion (“doing too much”) reduces the muscle’s tensing ability and training too intensively reduces the muscle’s status.

  • Yes, if the training capacity repeatedly remains at a very high level (>85%) then the system recommends increasing the training load, because it recognises that there are reserves for “more” training.

  • Poor regeneration quality means that even though there is sufficient training-free time, recovery is not adequate. This may be because you have too many appointments, too little sleep, are performing other physically demanding activities or your stress level is too high.

  • The value unit system we have developed defines a neutral load value for each load area, so all the load areas can be compared and a total load calculated. For example, an hour of basic endurance is defined as 1 unit, and 12 series of maximum strength training are also defined as 1 unit. Each exercise is parameterised according to this system.

 
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