CoachboxMeetup #1
May 6, 2026|Monte Marcella (Belgium)
A premium networking event for ambitious endurance coaches and trainers.
Register nowFor our first 2026 Meetup, we will bring you a mix of industry trends, great insights, and science-backed strategies to help you improve your coaching, develop better athletes, and grow your business with confidence.
Great Insights
Stay ahead with science-backed coaching strategies, the latest industry trends and great marketing insights, to develop stronger, more successful athletes and grow your business.
Inspiring Conversations
Connect with like-minded coaches, exchange ideas, and build powerful relationships that move your practice forward.
Energy & Motivation
Leave feeling recharged and confident, with actionable takeaways to grow your business and coaching with purpose.
Understanding How Performance Is Created
Athletic performance is complex. It is created by the interaction of multiple physiological and metabolic systems, not by a single metric.
Traditional performance testing often focuses on isolated values such as a threshold or VO₂max. These metrics typically remain separated in silos, without a causal connection that explains how physiological systems interact to create performance.
Performance Optimization Diagnostics addresses this gap by shifting the focus from isolated metrics to physiological interaction.
In this workshop, you learn how aerobic, glycolytic, fat, and carbohydrate metabolism interact with factors such as economy, buffering capacity, and body composition, and how this interaction enables or limits performance.
Reserve my spotThis intensive 2-day workshop combines theory with extensive hands-on practice.
A practice-oriented understanding of muscular energy metabolism
Covering glycolysis, aerobic metabolism, MLSS, fat and carbohydrate oxidation, buffering capacity, and movement economy, taught exclusively from a performance-relevant perspective, without unnecessary biochemical theory overload.
How metabolic systems interact to create performance
Including eye-opening connections between glycolysis and fat metabolism, lactate and VO₂, aerobic and anaerobic contribution, and their combined effect on performance outcomes.
How different physiological profiles shape performance
By interactively exploring real-world scenarios such as glycolytically dominant or aerobically dominant athletes. You will use interactive tools to build and explore physiological avatars by yourself.
Performance diagnostics in practice
Including hands-on experience with lactate testing, body composition assessment, and VO₂ measurement, and understanding which data are required to describe physiological interaction.
How to process and interpret diagnostic data
Turning raw measurements into meaningful physiological profiles that allow causal interpretation rather than only descriptive reporting.
How to define training zones based on physiological profiles
Where each zone is anchored to the physiological system and its metric you want to adapt by training, rather than extrapolated from a single threshold value.
By Sunday evening, you'll have personally conducted tests, analyzed results, and gained the confidence to offer metabolic testing services.
Reserve my spotDay 1
A practice-oriented understanding of muscular energy metabolism, including glycolysis, aerobic metabolism, MLSS, fat and carbohydrate oxidation, buffering capacity, and movement economy, taught strictly from a performance-relevant perspective.
Understanding how metabolic systems interact to create performance, with eye-opening connections between glycolysis and fat metabolism, lactate and VO₂, aerobic and anaerobic contribution, and their combined effect on performance outcomes.
Performance diagnostics in practice, including hands-on experience with lactate testing, body composition assessment, and VO₂ measurement, and learning which data are required to make physiological interaction visible.
Fireside chat on advanced diagnostics, focusing on specific testing approaches for VLamax and VO₂max, and how these metrics fit into the broader metabolic context.
Day 2
From data to physiological profiles, learning how to process and interpret diagnostic data to move from raw measurements to causal, physiologically meaningful insight.
Exploring different physiological performance profiles, by interactively building and analyzing real-world scenarios (e.g. glycolytically dominant vs. aerobically dominant athletes) using interactive physiological avatars.
Defining training zones from physiology, where each training zone is anchored to the physiological system and master metric you want to adapt, rather than extrapolated from a single threshold value.
Receive your certificate of participation and connect with fellow professionals in the field.
2 days. 20 seats. Transform how you understand and use lactate testing.
Reserve my spotIf you want to understand what data means for performance, this is for you.
Performance Coaches
Who want to move beyond interpreting isolated metrics and learn how to diagnose what actually limits performance in a physiological, causal way.
Human Performance lab operators
Who feel that current diagnostics describe values well, but do not sufficiently explain performance outcomes or guide training priorities.
Practitioners involved in performance testing
Who want to understand why similar test results can require very different training approaches depending on the underlying physiological profile.
Anyone dissatisfied with generic training zones
And heuristics and looking for a physiology-based framework to define training focus, intensity distribution, and adaptation targets.
Important Note: This workshop focuses on exercise metabolism, testing, and metabolic profiling: the foundation needed to understand what the data means. If your interest is more focused on creating physiology-based training programs, the 4-day Coaching Education Camp is the better fit for you.
Only 20 seats available
This intimate workshop size ensures you get hands-on practice time and direct access to expert instruction, but it also means spots fill quickly.
Weekend format
Designed for working professionals. Attend without taking time off work, and return Monday ready to implement new skills.
Lower-risk investment
This workshop delivers specialized knowledge at a fraction of what you'd pay for university courses or multi-week certifications, and you'll see ROI from your first upgraded client.
Learn from a pioneer in Performance Optimization Diagnostics
Sebastian Weber, a renowned sports scientist and creator of INSCYD, has significantly influenced elite sports training with his expertise in exercise physiology and metabolic profiling.
Sebastian developed the first ever test to measure glycolytic power (VLamax) back in 2003. He has used his knowledge to help some of the best world tour cyclists win 9 world championship titles, Olympic medals and Tour de France victories.
Sebastian Weber is consulting and advising the German Swimming and Skiing Federations, the USA Triathlon Federation along many other elite organizations. He is also a teacher for the German Triathlon Federation and for the Olympic S&C coaching program.
Sebastian Weber
Sports Scientist & Creator of INSCYD
9x World Championship titles
Olympic medals advisor
Tour de France victories
German Swimming & Skiing Federation advisor
USA Triathlon Federation consultant
Everything you need to know.
Duration
2 days, Saturday morning through Sunday late afternoon
Participants
Limited to 20 participants, ensuring personalized attention and sufficient hands-on time
What's included
- 16+ hours of expert instruction and hands-on practice
- Participation in running and cycling lactate tests
- All testing materials and consumables
- Comprehensive workshop materials
- Certificate of participation
- Access to private networking session Saturday evening
This workshop is officially recognized by the German Swimming Federation, USA Triathlon, and USA Cycling as part of their coach education programs. Certificates of participation are widely accepted by other institutions as continuing education.
Reserve your seat.
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