Enhancing Athletic Performance

HealthScan For Athletes:


Athletes are always looking for the perfect body fat to muscle ratio – that sweet spot of optimal weight, strength, speed, and endurance.

Research shows that the correct portion of muscle mass increases strength, power and agility, which are essential to optimising athletic performance.

This is why obtaining a detailed analysis of your body composition, and not just a body fat percentage, is so important.


Benefits and how to book:

Testing helps formulate a training programme that builds muscle, lose fat or both. With information from a HealthScan, you can establish a baseline, compare your lean and fat mass distribution to elite athletes in your sport or at your position, then design a specific programme that will help you reach your goals more optimally.

Knowing your body composition:

Specifically, your body fat and lean mass distribution will help you better determine the type of fuel mixture to use before, during, and after workouts and practice, along with pre-competition fuel.

During rehabilitation, fat gain and muscle loss are common phenomena. A HealthScan helps trainers and physical therapists monitor these variables along with the resulting lean mass imbalance that results from injury.

This information can help to adapt rehab workouts, rest and nutrition plans to reflect your body’s specific needs during its recovery. Overall, it’s a more effective tool for developing meal plans and other nutrition strategies; monitoring progress; optimising performance;rehabilitating an injury;providing motivation; and discovering irregularities in behaviour.

When you go for your scan, you’ll be following in the footsteps of several international squads including British Judo, who use body
composition scans to ensure they are in peak shape for competition. With information being key to the success of performance development, our athlete package comes with detailed clinical reports to help you make informed decisions on your training, nutrition and conditioning. This includes a detailed body composition and bone density report detailing fat, lean muscle mass and bone density to the gram for the whole body and regional parts of the body; this raw data is available instantly at your appointment, with the formal
report to follow. For follow-up body composition scans, trending reports are also produced.

For custom-made packages and information about the services offered please contact the HealthScan Team: 

Email: HealthScan@wlv.ac.uk

Telephone: 01902 321120

Address: 
HealthScan
Institute of Sport
University of Wolverhampton
Walsall Campus
Gorway Road
Walsall
WS1 3BD