You measure everything else you are responsible for.You have never measured this.
The Capacity Assessment establishes what your biology can currently carry, and where that falls short of what your role is asking of it.
Forty-five minutes. Four measured assessments. A written report within forty-eight hours.
City of London and Canary Wharf.
Private. No obligation beyond the appointment.
Normal is not the same as capable.
A standard screen is built to detect disease. It answers one question: is anything clinically wrong.
Plenty of men get a clean result and still cannot get through the week. That is not a contradiction. Pathology and capacity are different questions, and only one of them is being asked.
The second question is the one you are actually asking. Why your judgement is worse at four than at ten. Why you are short with people you are not angry at. Why the training that worked at thirty-five stopped working. Why you are managing your energy rather than spending it.
None of that is pathology. It is capacity falling below demand.
Most men respond by applying more effort to a system that is already overloaded.
Four assessments. Measured, not reported.
Almost everything you have been told about your own health has been based on what you reported. This is not that.
Cardiorespiratory capacity
VO2max, assessed by seismocardiography using a CE-marked medical device. Your aerobic ceiling, benchmarked against your age and against what your role demands of you. No exertion, no mask, no treadmill. It takes about three minutes and you stay in your clothes.
Body composition
Segmental analysis: lean mass, fat distribution, visceral load, hydration, and left-to-right asymmetry. Weight tells you almost nothing. This tells you what the weight is made of and where it sits.
Metabolic function
Indirect calorimetry: your resting metabolic rate measured from your own expired air, against what your body should be using. Ten minutes seated with a mask. It tells us whether you are under-fuelled or over-fed for the output you are producing, and whether the problem is what you eat or what your system is doing with it.
Movement and structure
A screen of restriction, asymmetry and load tolerance. What limits your training before your effort does, and where injury risk is currently sitting.
Plus your load history: sleep, travel, working pattern, alcohol, stress. Four things measured, one thing discussed.
The number most men over forty have never seen.
VO2max is the volume of oxygen your body can use at maximum effort. It is the cleanest single measure of physical capacity there is, and it tracks closely with how long you stay capable rather than merely alive.
Historically it required a laboratory, a treadmill, a mask and a maximal effort, which is why almost nobody has had it done.
We assess it at rest, from the mechanical signal of your own heartbeat, in about three minutes.
The single reading gives you a reliable position against your age. The value compounds on repeat: the method's test-retest reliability is high enough that change over a quarter is real signal rather than noise.
Forty-five minutes.
Twenty-five minutes, assessment
The four measurements, plus your load history. The metabolic reading is taken seated with a mask for around ten minutes, so most of the conversation happens around it rather than during it.
Fifteen minutes, interpretation
Your results read back to you against relevant benchmarks. Which systems are under most strain, and what that is costing you in practical terms. This is the part that matters.
Five minutes, what follows
What addressing it would involve, in sequence. If that is of no interest, we stop there.
The report is yours either way.
Within forty-eight hours you receive a written report: your measured results, your benchmarks, the systems under strain, and the order in which they would need addressing.
Take it to your GP. Take it to whoever currently trains you. Run it yourself.
It is your data. There is no follow-up sequence and nobody will chase you.
Built for people whose performance has consequences.
Founders, directors, executives and senior operators. Men whose energy, judgement and reliability affect other people. Men who would rather be measured than motivated.
Anyone looking for a diet, or a training plan to follow rather than a position to work from. Anyone wanting encouragement rather than information.
Before advice, you measure.
Forty-five minutes. £195. City of London or Canary Wharf.
Fee credited in full against any engagement started within fourteen days.