What is the Ultimate Athlete Performance Profile?

The Ultimate Athlete Performance Profile is an advanced blood test built for athletes, high performers, and individuals training at intensity. It provides a deep, system-wide assessment of factors that directly influence strength, endurance, recovery, body composition, and injury risk.

The panel combines hormonal balance, iron status, vitamin levels, metabolic health, kidney and liver function, lipids, electrolytes, and inflammation markers. This allows performance-limiting issues to be identified early, even before symptoms appear.

It is suitable for competitive athletes, gym enthusiasts, endurance training, and anyone aiming to train harder while recovering smarter.

Why do I need an Ultimate Athlete Performance Profile?

Training stress places high demands on the endocrine, metabolic, and recovery systems. Subclinical imbalances can significantly impact performance, consistency, and injury risk.

You may benefit from this profile if you experience:

• Plateaued performance or slow progress
• Poor recovery between sessions
• Fatigue or low motivation
• Reduced strength or endurance
• Frequent illness or inflammation
• Muscle soreness lasting longer than expected
• Hormonal symptoms or low libido
• Difficulty maintaining lean mass
• Preparing for competition or high training load

This profile helps fine-tune training, nutrition, recovery, and workload decisions based on objective data.

Benefits of the test

1. Optimises hormonal performance
   Assesses testosterone, cortisol, thyroid, and adrenal balance.
2. Identifies iron and oxygen delivery issues
   Essential for endurance, stamina, and recovery.
3. Supports muscle growth and repair
   Evaluates protein status, inflammation, and anabolic markers.
4. Improves recovery strategies
   Detects overtraining and excessive physiological stress.
5. Monitors metabolic efficiency
   Assesses glucose control and energy utilisation.
6. Protects kidney and liver health
   Important during high protein intake and supplementation.
7. Assesses cardiovascular risk factors
   Lipid profile tailored for performance longevity.
8. Single comprehensive assessment
   Reduces guesswork with one integrated panel.

Step-by-step: How we offer testing

Clinic-based testing (UK-wide)

• Choose your nearest UK clinic
• Attend your appointment
• Blood sample taken by a clinician
• Sample sent to the laboratory
• Results issued once analysis is complete

Home or hotel visit (+£60, UK-wide)

• Mobile phlebotomist attends your location
• Blood sample taken at home or hotel
• No travel required
• Sample transported securely to the laboratory

Your results explained

Low levels (performance-limiting)

• Low testosterone / FAI – reduced strength, recovery, motivation
• Low ferritin or iron – poor endurance and oxygen delivery
• Low Free T3 / Free T4 – impaired metabolism and energy
• Low magnesium – muscle cramps and fatigue
• Low albumin or protein – poor recovery and tissue repair

Typical UK reference examples (vary by lab):

• Ferritin (men): <30 µg/L
• Testosterone (men): <8 nmol/L
• Free T3: <3.1 pmol/L
• Magnesium: <0.7 mmol/L

Normal levels (optimal range)

• Balanced hormones and thyroid function
• Adequate iron stores and oxygen transport
• Normal kidney and liver markers
• Healthy lipid ratios and glucose control
• Low inflammatory markers

This pattern supports sustainable training and consistent performance.

High levels (overload or risk)

• High cortisol – overtraining or chronic stress
• Raised CRP – inflammation or inadequate recovery
• Elevated liver enzymes – supplement or training strain
• High LDL or non-HDL cholesterol – cardiovascular risk
• Raised urea or creatinine – excessive protein load or dehydration

These findings help guide recovery, nutrition, and workload adjustments.