RIAN Performance is the exclusive performance science division of RIAN Groups — engineered for elite, professional, and Olympic-level athletes who operate where margins are measured in hundredths and championships are won before the competition begins.
RIAN Performance has developed specialized protocols for twelve elite sports disciplines — each with sport-specific physiology, energy system demands, injury risk profiles, and performance metrics that require a distinct scientific approach.
Our sports science team includes former professional athletes, strength and conditioning coaches with Olympic and professional experience, registered sports dietitians, and sports medicine physicians — ensuring every protocol is built by people who understand elite sport from the inside.
Maximum force production, rate of force development, neural drive optimization, and peak power output protocols.
Sprint mechanics, acceleration phase optimization, maximum velocity development, and phosphocreatine resynthesis protocols.
VO2 max elevation, lactate threshold training, fat oxidation optimization, and aerobic capacity periodization for sustained elite performance.
Multi-energy system conditioning, weight cutting science, fight camp periodization, and sport-specific strength and power protocols.
Position-specific conditioning, repeated sprint ability, game-load monitoring, and in-season load management for professional team sport athletes.
Quadrennial periodization, Olympic qualification cycle peaking, WADA-compliant supplement and peptide protocols, and podium-ready preparation.
Agility mechanics, reactive strength, fine motor coordination, hand-eye system training, and tournament-schedule periodization.
Reaction time optimization, sustained attention protocols, nootropic supplementation, sleep science, and burnout prevention for elite esports professionals.
RIAN Performance delivers six integrated service pillars — each staffed by specialists who have worked at the highest levels of professional and Olympic sport.
Every RIAN Performance client receives a dedicated performance team — not a single coach or generic app. A sports scientist, sports dietitian, strength and conditioning specialist, and clinical performance physician coordinate on your protocol year-round.
Every RIAN Performance protocol is built on the same scientific principles that power the world's best-performing athletes — periodization, individualization, data-driven decision-making, and continuous adaptation.
We don't sell programs. We build systems. Every protocol is living and evolving — updated weekly based on training data, HRV trends, bloodwork, competition performance, and athlete feedback. Nothing is set and forgotten.
Daily HRV monitoring determines training intensity, volume, and modality. We never push athletes into high-intensity work when their physiology says no — the SRA curve is respected every single session.
Precision tapering protocols backed by supercompensation science — timing the peak of adaptation to land exactly on competition day. We've engineered this protocol across multiple Olympic cycles and professional championships.
Concentration of training stimuli into focused mesocycles — accumulation, transmutation, and realization blocks — sequenced precisely around your competition schedule for maximal adaptation with minimal interference.
Individual F-V profile assessment to identify whether an athlete is force-deficient or velocity-deficient — then targeting the exact training intervention that produces the greatest performance return.
Sport-specific lactate threshold testing to identify LT1 (aerobic threshold), LT2 (anaerobic threshold), and individual training zones — replacing generic percentage-of-max-HR zones with precise, physiologically meaningful targets.
Every RIAN Performance supplement recommendation and peptide protocol is reviewed against current WADA, USADA, and sport-specific prohibited substance lists. Athletes receive a certified safe supplement stack with anti-contamination verification.
Integration with athlete GPS and wearable data (Catapult, Polar, Garmin, WHOOP) to quantify external training load, track chronic:acute workload ratio, and prevent the overreach that ends careers.
Sport-specific performance testing repeated every 4–8 weeks to track adaptation, quantify progress, and recalibrate protocols when gains plateau — ensuring the program always moves the needle.
RIAN Performance uses a comprehensive testing battery to establish true physiological and performance baselines — then retests regularly to track adaptation, validate protocols, and identify emerging weaknesses before they become limiting factors.
All testing data is stored in your private RIAN Performance athlete profile — giving you a longitudinal record of every physical quality, every training variable, and every performance metric tracked across your career with RIAN.
Graded exercise testing with gas analysis to determine VO2 max, VT1, VT2, and aerobic training zones with precision unavailable from field tests.
Countermovement jump, squat jump, reactive strength index, and force-time curve analysis to profile explosive power qualities and asymmetries.
Laser-timed sprint testing across multiple distances with force-velocity profiling and mechanical effectiveness analysis using radar or laser timing gates.
Multi-stage lactate testing to identify LT1 and LT2 thresholds, establish personalized training zones, and monitor aerobic fitness over time.
Full hormonal panel, CBC, metabolic panel, iron studies, vitamin D, testosterone, cortisol, IGF-1, and sport-specific biomarkers reviewed by a sports medicine physician.
Wearable-integrated sleep staging, HRV tracking, respiratory rate monitoring, and recovery score analysis to optimize training readiness daily.
Sport-specific reaction time testing, decision-making assessment, and cognitive load profiling — critical for combat sports, ball sports, and tactical athletes.
Multi-compartment body composition assessment including lean mass segmentation, fat distribution, bone density estimation, and hydration status tracking.
Elite sport places nutritional demands that generic meal plans cannot meet. RIAN Performance nutrition protocols are periodized to your training phases, travel schedule, and competition windows — calculated to the gram for every training block.
Our sports dietitians specialize in elite performance fueling — including competition day protocols, intra-event fueling for endurance sports, weight-class management, and the specific micronutrient demands of your sport. Nothing generic. Nothing approximated.
Higher carb, performance-timed protein, and pre/intra/post-workout fuel strategy matched to session intensity.
Anti-inflammatory focus, reduced carbohydrate, elevated micronutrient density, and tissue repair nutrition.
Jet lag mitigation, airport/hotel nutrition strategies, hydration scheduling, and timing manipulation.
Pre-event carb loading, warm-up fueling, intra-event strategy, and immediate post-competition recovery meal.
Strategic muscle building, body composition optimization, and micronutrient repletion between competitive seasons.
| Compound | Classification | Primary Benefit | Use Case | WADA Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creatine Monohydrate | Supplement | ATP resynthesis, power output | All training phases | ✓ Permitted |
| Beta-Alanine | Supplement | Carnosine buffering, lactate delay | Endurance & HIIT phases | ✓ Permitted |
| Caffeine | Supplement | CNS stimulation, fat oxidation | Competition & training | ✓ Permitted |
| BPC-157 | Peptide | Tissue repair, injury recovery | In-season maintenance & rehab | ⚠ Review Required |
| TB-500 | Peptide | Systemic recovery acceleration | Post-injury, heavy training blocks | ⚠ Review Required |
| CJC-1295 / Ipamorelin | Peptide | GH pulse, body recomposition | Off-season only | ✗ Off-Season Only |
| MK-677 | GH Secretagogue | IGF-1 elevation, sleep, lean mass | Off-season protocol | ✗ Off-Season Only |
| Vitamin D3 + K2 | Supplement | Testosterone, immunity, bone | Year-round | ✓ Permitted |
| Omega-3 (EPA/DHA) | Supplement | Inflammation, cognition, recovery | Year-round | ✓ Permitted |
All compounds reviewed against current WADA 2025 Prohibited List. Athletes are individually counseled on sport-specific anti-doping regulations before any protocol is initiated. This table is informational only.
At the world-class level, every athlete is physically prepared. Championships are decided by who performs under pressure — whose mind holds when everything is on the line. RIAN Performance's mental performance science closes that gap.
Our sport psychologists and mental performance coaches have worked with Olympians, World Champions, and professional athletes across every major sport. They bring the same systematic, evidence-based approach to the mental game that we apply to every other performance variable.
Every athlete has an individual optimal arousal zone — the state of physiological and psychological activation where they perform at their peak. We identify yours through testing, then build a pre-competition routine that reliably puts you there, every time, regardless of the stakes or the environment.
The neuroscience of choking is well understood — and preventable. RIAN Performance mental coaches use systematic desensitization, pressure training environments, and cognitive reframing techniques to eliminate the physiological cascade that causes performance deterioration when it matters most.
The mental frameworks that sustain world-class performance across a career — resilience to failure and setback, process vs. outcome orientation, identity robustness, and the psychological structures that allow elite performers to maintain high standards over years and decades rather than weeks.
Evidence-based nootropic supplementation including caffeine and L-theanine synergy, lion's mane, bacopa monnieri, phosphatidylserine, and alpha-GPC — clinically dosed to enhance reaction time, sustained attention, working memory, and decision-making speed during competition.
Elite athletes don't just train harder — they recover faster and more completely. RIAN Performance's recovery protocols are designed to compress the SRA (Stimulus-Recovery-Adaptation) curve, allowing more high-quality training in less time.
Recovery is not passive. It is a structured, scientific intervention applied with the same precision as training. Sleep, nutrition, peptide therapy, thermal therapy, and psychological deload are all programmed — not left to chance.
80% of growth hormone is released during deep sleep. We optimize your sleep environment, pre-sleep nutrition, light exposure, circadian timing, and supplement protocol (ZMA, MK-677 where applicable) to maximize restorative sleep quality and overnight anabolic output.
Evidence-based contrast therapy and sauna protocols — cold water immersion, hot-cold contrast, and infrared sauna — strategically timed around training sessions to reduce DOMS, accelerate inflammation resolution, and improve parasympathetic nervous system activation.
Clinician-supervised BPC-157 and TB-500 protocols for injury prevention and accelerated tissue repair. Dramatically reduces recovery time from soft tissue injury, tendinopathy, and musculoskeletal overuse — keeping elite athletes training and competing at maximum frequency.
Daily heart rate variability tracking provides an objective window into recovery status and autonomic nervous system balance. RIAN Performance uses HRV trends to make real-time training load adjustments — preventing the accumulated fatigue that derails championship campaigns.
Structured active recovery sessions — zone 1-2 aerobic work, mobility and flexibility programming, foam rolling, and movement quality work — prescribed with the same specificity as training sessions. Passive rest alone is insufficient for elite athletes with heavy training loads.
Post-training and post-competition nutritional interventions including glycogen replenishment windows, rapid protein delivery, electrolyte repletion, and anti-inflammatory food strategies — timed with precision to maximize the recovery adaptation window.
We work with a strictly limited roster of athletes to ensure every client receives the full attention, personalization, and scientific depth they deserve. Three access tiers — each application-based.
RIAN Performance accepts a limited number of elite athletes each season. Applications are reviewed personally by Travis Conlon and our performance science leadership team. If you're ready to operate at the absolute frontier of human performance — apply now.