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ACU's Brisbane Campus is ideally situated just a stone's throw away from the CBD and easy access to both the Sunshine and Gold Coasts. The international and domestic airports are right on our doorstep which means our world-class facilities are easily accessible from across Australia.
Our high-performance sport testing facilities include the latest wireless technology for biomechanical assessments and health and performance testing, and feature state-of-the-art, large volume motion capture laboratories, virtual reality, strength-and-conditioning facilities, a swimming pool, and expansive sports fields. Elevate your training and testing at ACU Brisbane - where convenience meets peak performance.
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1100 Nudgee Road, Banyo, QLD 4014.
| Service description | Cost | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Body composition | ||||
| Dietitian (online consultation) | Dietitians at our Melbourne High Performance Hub provide actionable guidance to help you reach your best possible self. We specialise in offering nutritional guidance to enhance overall wellbeing or customise plans tailored to your specific athletic goals. Our dietitian will assess your profile, such as medical conditions, symptoms, body composition goals, athletic needs, eating patterns, and provide strategies to help you achieve your goals. | $150 | One hour | Enquire now |
| Dietitian - follow up consultation | This service is for individuals that have already completed an initial dietitian consultation and are reviewing their progress with a follow up appointment. | $100 | 45 mins | Enquire now |
| Strength and conditioning | ||||
| Strength and power (HUMAC) | Our comprehensive strength testing service uses a device called an isokinetic dynamometer - the gold standard for measuring strength and power - allowing us to accurately measure your upper and lower limb strength. This service is for you if you want to understand your strength and power profile to aid and improve performance or following recovery from injury. | $300 | 60 - 90 mins | Enquire now |
| Biomechanics and movement analysis | ||||
| Gait analysis | In our state-of-the-art biomechanics laboratories, we can measure the way you move when you are walking, jogging or running. We do this through an approach called optimal motion capture, where we affix small reflective markers to various sites on your body to track how you move. This service is for you if you want to enhance your running technique and performance and/or detect issues following injury. | $750 | 2 hours | Enquire now |
| Force plates | Our advanced force plates offer precise measurements of ground reaction forces, key for understanding an athlete's interaction with the ground, for a wide range of movements. They provide vital data on force production, power, impulse, balance and movement symmetry. These insights have practical applications in enhancing athletic performance. They can help optimise training, improve techniques and monitor rehabilitation, catering to a wide range of sports to push athletes towards their peak potential. Our force plate technology is not just a measurement tool, but a pathway to excellence in human performance. | $100 | 1 - 2 hours | Enquire now |
| GPS assessment (for teams) | Global Positioning Systems (GPS) are widely employed in sports for tracking and analysing athletic performance. Athletes and coaches use GPS technology to monitor metrics such as distance covered, speed and acceleration during training and competitions. This data aids in optimising training, assessing fitness levels and developing game plans. Team sports like soccer, rugby league and union, and Australian football can all benefit from GPS applications, enhancing performance analysis and overall athletic development. | $2,000* | Usually 2 - 3 hours | Enquire now |
| Exercise physiology | ||||
| VO2 max test | Maximal oxygen consumption (VO2 max) is a measure of an athlete's aerobic and endurance capacity. A high oxygen ceiling is one of the key ingredients for all endurance and team sport athletes, and essential to sustaining high aerobic power outputs. | $200 | 1 hour | Enquire now |
| Lactate threshold test | A lactate threshold test assesses the exercise intensity at which you can train at to maximise endurance performance. This test involves repeated finger prick blood tests during cycling or running at increasing intensities and is useful for determining individual lactate responses that can inform training and pacing strategies. | $200 | 1 hour | Enquire now |
| Wingate Anaerobic Test (on a bike) | The Wingate Anaerobic Test measures your power output from energy pathways that do not require oxygen. This is a useful benchmark for power-based athletes or endurance athletes wishing to understand their sprinting capability and potential. | $70 | 1 hour | Enquire now |
| School visits and workshops | ||||
| High school student experience | Looking to offer students a unique learning experience using state-of-the-art facilities? We can tailor learning content that aligns with the curriculum to provide your students with a hands-on experience to reinforce learning concepts. Learn from the experts as they share their evidence-based knowledge and skills. | From $25* | 2 - 4 hours | Enquire now |
| PDHPE teacher professional development | We offer PDHPE teachers opportunities to upskill their knowledge and understanding of exercise science principles in accordance with current evidence and contemporary practice. Our workshops are designed to refresh teachers' knowledge and provide them with practical learning skills that can be delivered in the school environment. | POA | 4 - 6 hours | Enquire now |
| Packages | ||||
| Runners and cyclists | The runners and cyclists' package is a thoughtfully curated group of assessments to evaluate your ability to run and cycle at your best. Tests included in this package; a DXA scan which assesses your body's composition (fat mass, muscle mass, bone density), a VO2 max test which asses your aerobic fitness (ability to consume and transport oxygen to working muscles) and a lactate threshold test assesses the exercise intensity at which you can train at to maximise endurance performance. |
$450 | 2-3 hours | Enquire now |
| AFL draft combine | Setting yourself up for success in this year AFL combine and need to understand how you are progressing, will you make your mark? The ACU AFL draft combine package takes you through the same series of tests to prepare you for what lies ahead.
Tests included in this package: a VO2 max test which asses your ability to consume and transport oxygen to working muscles (aerobic capacity), a standing and running vertical jump test to assess muscular strength and power of the lower body, a 20 metre sprint test will provide you with information regarding your ability to accelerate quickly over a short distance and an agility test will evaluate your ability to change direction quickly. |
$200 | 2 hours | Enquire now |