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GRASPOR for runners
How does GRASPOR work? What does GRASPOR measure, and how can I use that in my training? And how does the measurement work?
What is GRASPOR?
GRASPOR is your new training partner.
As runners, we don’t get many performance trackers that can give us valuable insights. Heart rate is impacted by many things, and running based on pace can be difficult if you live in a hilly area.
That changes now. GRASPOR gives you insights into your muscles, and unlocks a new way of training. Smarter than ever before.
What is GRASPOR?
GRASPOR is your new training partner.
As runners, we don’t get many performance trackers that can give us valuable insights. Heart rate is impacted by many things, and running based on pace can be difficult if you live in a hilly area.
That changes now. GRASPOR gives you insights into your muscles, and unlocks a new way of training. Smarter than ever before.
Go running with GRASPOR
The availability of oxygen in your muscles is vital for endurance sports. Oxygen is the fuel to your muscles, which is why every endurance athlete should measure it.
Based on an advanced technology originally developed for astronauts, we have re-developed the technology for cyclists and runners, so you can measure your level of muscle oxygen in real-time when you’re out training.
When measuring it, you can improve it.
Start running with GRASPOR, and feel the difference between training hard, and training smart
Adaptive training
Measure your muscle performance live
Ride based on your daily fatigue level.
Train at your optimal intensity
Performance test
Assess your current fitness level
Get personalized training zones
Identify your anarobic weakness
Warm-up
Find the right warm-up for you
Adapt your warm-up to the specific ride
Improve your performance by up to 10%
Adaptive training, as we call it, is all about listening to your body.
If you’re tired from yesterday’s training, it may have an effect on today’s training. By measuring your muscle oxygen, GRASPOR helps you identify this effect and adapt to it, so you get the most out of your training, without guesswork.
You can’t rely on your testing data after 6 weeks, then it becomes outdated, as your fitness have improved. This means that you should test yourself every 4-6 weeks to ensure that you will keep improving at the same rate.
With GRASPOR you can test yourself as often as you want, and make sure that you’re always training to your maximum potential! More testing means better training output.
Warming up ensures that your body is ready for high intensity efforts, without overstressing it at the beginning of your workout. Going out doing efforts without proper warm-up will give you a less than ideal training output at the end of the day.
GRASPOR can also help you choose the right warm-up for you, and adapt it to your feeling on the day!
Your new weapon
Adaptive training
Adaptive training
It might sound fancy and difficult, but in reality it’s simple.
Adaptive training is all about listening to your body, and adapting your training intensity to your body’s capability, on any given day.
Listening to your body can be hard, especially finding out how to act based on your fatigue – this is where GRASPOR comes into the picture.
By measuring your muscle oxygen levels GRAPOR can tell you exactly how hard your body is working to produce an effort, and with that, tell you if you should lower or increase your output.
What it means in practice
Basically, training based on GRASPOR instead of heart rate or pace, you can make sure that you’re pushing yourself to the limit.
Not over, or under it.
If you are going for a run, but had a hard day with efforts the day before, the fatigue you gained yesterday will likely impact your performance today.
In that case, you would likely have the feeling that the pace seemed harder, but not having the knowledge to act on it – without GRASPOR that is.
With GRASPOR you would be able to tell exactly how fatigued you are, and act based on it to make sure you get the right training. But, the opposite is also true. You can train too easy, and limit your performance gain.
It’s just as you might know from training based on pace – but instead of running between two times eg., 4:30-4:20, you run based on muscle oxygen, eg., 54-50%. Which means you don’t have to plan a flat route for efforts.
What it means in practice
Basically, training based on GRASPOR instead of heart rate or pace, you can make sure that you’re pushing yourself to the limit.
Not over, or under it.
If you are going for a run, but had a hard day with efforts the day before, the fatigue you gained yesterday will likely impact your performance today.
In that case, you would likely have the feeling that the pace seemed harder, but not having the knowledge to act on it – without GRASPOR that is.
With GRASPOR you would be able to tell exactly how fatigued you are, and act based on it to make sure you get the right training. But, the opposite is also true. You can train too easy, and limit your performance gain.
It’s just as you might know from training based on pace – but instead of running between two times eg., 4:30-4:20, you run based on muscle oxygen, eg., 54-50%. Which means you don’t have to plan a flat route for efforts.
How to get started
Adaptive training begins with a performance test to map your adaptive training zones.
Based on this test, you’ll get your new training zones, and will be able to schedule training based on this. Afterwards you should test your performance to keep track of improvements.
Book one of our experts if you have any questions about adaptive training, how you can use it in your training, or GRASPOR in general here:
Technology
GRASPOR emits light from two different sources and measure the returning light at three different sites.
The light sources shines through your muscle and measures the intensity of the light returning to the sensor.
The intensity of the light is then used to calculate your muscle oxygen level. This calculation is made 10 times per second, allowing you to rely on live data throughout your workout.
keep improving
Performance test
The threshold test
With GRASPOR you can test your performance in many more ways than you’re used to. But let’s focus on the threshold test for now.
The threshold test is the basis for your adaptive training efforts – and its possible you know how to do it.
Our test protocol is a standard 3-minute step test. Simply put, you run for 3 minutes, increase the intensity, run for 3 minutes and so on. You do this until you can’t keep running.
Test your pacing strategy
Training for a marathon? Use GRASPOR to test your pacing strategy.
If you have a goal of running a marathon in 4 hours, thats a pace at 5:40, you have to be able to do that for 4 hours. With GRASPOR, you can test if you’re actually able to do that.
By keeping an eye on your muscle oxygen, you can make sure that you have enough oxygen in your muscles to keep the pace up, and if you dont, you can adapt to it before it’s too late.
Test your pacing strategy
Training for a marathon? Use GRASPOR to test your pacing strategy.
If you have a goal of running a marathon in 4 hours, thats a pace at 5:40, you have to be able to do that for 4 hours. With GRASPOR, you can test if you’re actually able to do that.
By keeping an eye on your muscle oxygen, you can make sure that you have enough oxygen in your muscles to keep the pace up, and if you dont, you can adapt to it before it’s too late.
What comes next?
Once you have completed your test, you will get a graph that looks like the one on the left. By looking at the graph you will be able to identify your adaptive training zones.
If you have recorded your test on your Garmin watch you will still find the workout in our app.
Book one of our experts if you have any questions about performance testing, how you can use it in your training, or GRASPOR in general here:
space tech – not rocket science
Developed for space – optimized for earth
The technology behind GRASPOR was originally developed for astronauts. But just because it’s space tech, doesn’t mean it’s rocket science.
Simply put, we took an advanced technology, optimized it for you to use by turning it into one single number to manage your training intensity.
One number to rule them all.
GRASPOR dispels the myth of training based on the saying:
No pain, No gain.
prepare your workout
Warm-up
Jogging is not enough
Jogging for the first few minutes is not enough if you’re preparing for efforts or hill sprints with your buddies. You need some more intensity to prepare your body.
The easy pace is an important part in “waking up” your body, and telling your heart and lungs that they need to go to work to supply oxygen to your muscles.
But it’s equally important to have some high intensity to get the message to your muscles, and prepare your legs for the upcoming intensity. It’s much better to have hurting legs for a 2 minute warm-up interval than for your 6 minute tempo interval.
Jogging is not enough
Jogging for the first few minutes is not enough if you’re preparing for efforts or hill sprints with your buddies. You need some more intensity to prepare your body.
The easy pace is an important part in “waking up” your body, and telling your heart and lungs that they need to go to work to supply oxygen to your muscles.
But it’s equally important to have some high intensity to get the message to your muscles, and prepare your legs for the upcoming intensity. It’s much better to have hurting legs for a 2 minute warm-up interval than for your 6 minute tempo interval.
What you should do
Warming up should prepare your body for the work ahead. If you’re just going jogging, an easy start to the run is good enough – but if youre going for a run with efforts, here is our suggestion:
2-3 minutes of walking/jogging slowly
1.5 minute progressive from jogging to 5 km pace
1 minute walking/jogging slowly
1.5 minute progressive effort from jogging to 2 km pace
1 minute walking/jogging slowly
2-3 6-second sprints. 1 minute jogging in between.
Now you’re ready for your workout!
This warm-up can be adapted to your needs, and with GRASPOR you can figure out exactly what works for you. Maybe 1 progressive effort is enough, or maybe you need 3 to get ready.
Book one of our experts if you have any questions about warming up, how you can use it in your training, or GRASPOR in general here: