Sports Performance
For athletes and high performers, how you feel is only part of the picture. This blood panel offers a more advanced level of detail for optimisation.
Your Sports Performance Test
Recovery, adaptation, energy availability, hormone balance, inflammation, nutrient status and stress load can all influence performance over time. Sports Performance is designed to help you look deeper, combining a broad foundation of health markers with additional biomarkers relevant to training, recovery and optimisation. Whether you are training hard, returning from a plateau, or simply want more precise insight into what your body needs, our sports performance blood test offers a more advanced level of detail for optimising your performance.
What this test looks at
Each marker in this panel is selected for its clinical relevance to your overall health picture.
- Full blood countoverall blood health and oxygen-carrying capacity
- Kidney and liver functionorgan health under training load
- Lipids and cholesterolcardiovascular and metabolic health
- Inflammationrecovery status and systemic inflammation
- Blood sugar controlenergy regulation and metabolic efficiency
- Thyroid functionmetabolic rate and energy regulation
- Iron statusiron stores, availability and oxygen transport
- Vitamin Dmuscle function, bone health and immunity
- Folatered blood cell formation and energy production
- Active B12energy production and neurological function
- Magnesiummuscle function, recovery and energy
- Testosteroneperformance hormone and adaptation
- Sex hormone binding globulinfree hormone availability
- Free androgen indexandrogen activity
- Luteinising hormonereproductive and hormonal regulation
- Cortisolstress response and recovery
- DHEA-Sadrenal function and resilience
- Creatine kinasemuscle damage and recovery marker
- CKMBcardiac and muscle health
- Myoglobinmuscle breakdown and recovery
- Total antioxidant activityoxidative stress and recovery capacity
- Urine markersadditional screening indicators
- Performance-focused depthdeeper understanding of both general health and performance-specific physiology.
Book This Test If You’re:
- Training regularly and want to optimise performance.
- Focused on recovery, resilience and adaptation.
- Feeling flat, under-recovered or unable to perform at your usual level.
- Interested in testosterone, cortisol, iron, inflammation and nutrient status.
- Looking for a more advanced panel than a standard wellness test.
- Wanting objective data to support smarter training and recovery decisions.
- This test may be especially helpful if you are preparing for an event or race, you suspect under-fuelling, poor recovery or hidden deficiency, your performance has plateaued, or you want a stronger link between your internal health data and your training output.
How It Works
Choose In Clinic or At Home
Book an appointment at our Harrogate clinic, or add the at-home option to your basket and complete your order.
Your Blood Draw
In Clinic - Our phlebotomist will take your sample in our Harrogate clinic.
At Home - Once we've placed your order with our partner laboratory, we'll email you their details so you can arrange a day and time for a phlebotomist to visit you.
Laboratory Analysis
Your sample arrives at our UKAS and NHS Approved laboratory partner, with analysis done within 24 hours.
GP Led Clinical Review
Your results are reviewed by a qualified doctor, who is able to interpret and recommend next steps based on findings.
Your Results
A doctor will talk through and share your results with you, recommending clinical next steps. Most blood testing companies only share results and cannot fully interpret them.
How Would You Like Your Blood Taken?
Venous vs Finger-Prick Blood Tests
Venous blood tests provide more reliable, better quality blood samples to analyse than finger-prick tests do. They are the gold standard for blood testing which is why we only offer them here at Cocoon.
Why Cocoon Is Different
A premium, thoughtful experience from start to finish.
Professional venous collection
Clinical-grade blood draw by a trained professional.
Clinically-led testing
Comprehensive biomarkers selected for clinical relevance.
GP-reviewed results
Every result is reviewed by a qualified clinician.
Comprehensive biomarkers
A broad panel designed for meaningful insight.
Premium experience
Premium, thoughtful experience from start to finish.
Why Performance Testing Can Be So Powerful
Training gives one kind of feedback. Blood testing gives another.
- Identify potential deficienciesSpot nutritional gaps that may be limiting your performance.
- Understand recoveryUnderstand whether recovery is being compromised.
- Track training loadTrack the effect of training load and lifestyle stress.
- Informed decisionsMake more informed decisions around fuelling, recovery and support.
- Long-term pictureBuild a clearer long-term picture. For many clients, this is not just about performance in sport — it is about capacity, resilience and feeling stronger day to day.