Profile
A two-day controlled and field assessment establishes the rider’s baseline, probable limiter and usable ventilatory margin.
Professional cycling · staff collaboration
From rider profile to a decision the staff can use.
HNS works with a limited number of professional riders, integrating ventilatory profiling, individual VST and field monitoring into the team’s existing performance system.
Performance analysis — not medical diagnosis.Any functional finding with clinical relevance requires interpretation by qualified medical staff.
Profilemeasure before prescribing
Selecttrain only where the margin is real
Integratereport to rider and staff
The operating model
Diagnose the performance problem. Train the relevant system. Monitor the transfer.
Collaboration begins with a decision, not a promise. The profile estimates whether the ventilatory system contains a meaningful, trainable margin for this rider and where it sits.
HNS works alongside the existing performance and medical team. Training load remains owned by the team; VST adds ventilatory targets, field interpretation and successive recalibration.
One operational chain
Select
VST is proposed only when the profile identifies an actionable opportunity relative to the rider’s other priorities.
Train
Individual targets and BEFORE, DURING and AFTER strategies are integrated into normal training.
Monitor
Field data test whether the intended pattern survives posture, gradient, heat, altitude, fatigue and race-specific load.
Report
The rider and staff receive decision-ready reports, updated targets and explicit limits of interpretation.
Ways to work together
A defined scope for each rider and each staff.
Rider profiling
Controlled baseline, ecological verification and a clear priority / secondary / not-indicated decision.
Rider selection
Profile a small group, then identify where longitudinal VST offers the strongest plausible return.
Longitudinal VST
Individual prescription, repeated calibration and progression over the training and competition cycle.
Monitoring & staff integration
Field review, operational feedback and technical reporting for performance and medical staff.
Collaborative research
Prospective protocols with predefined measures, traceable methods and evidence status stated without inflation.
What the staff receives
Evidence translated into an operating framework.
- A documented T0 and system-by-system interpretation.
- A clear VST indication and estimated margin—not a guarantee.
- Stochastic efforts: ventilatory strategies to drive VO₂ kinetics.
- Continuous efforts: ventilatory strategies with individual iRf, iTv, VE and route targets by intensity domain.
- Field monitoring, recalibration and concise rider-facing cues.
- Reports separating observation, inference and hypothesis.
Performance and protection
The ventilatory system is read beyond power alone.
HNS states what is measured within VST separately from what is interpreted, and separately again from what belongs to qualified medical staff.
Recovery oxygen kinetics
Faster post-effort O₂ recovery is an observed recovery signal. Its relationship with faster phosphocreatine resynthesis is a physiologically compatible interpretation—not a direct PCr measurement.
Airway protection
Profiling may reveal patterns compatible with exercise-induced airway dysfunction and inform route strategies addressing airway dehydration, pollutant exposure and inappropriate oral ventilation below VT1. Clinical interpretation remains with qualified medical staff.
Start with the rider
Profile broadly. Commit only where the signal justifies it.
A technical review can define the right entry point for one rider or a selected group.