TO GET A TRAINING PROGRAM
Phone +64 9 480 1422 or email info@performancelab.co.nz to make an appointment for a consultation with JON ACKLAND (Consultations can be conducted via phone, or face-to-face in our Birkenhead office)

If you are contemplating Ironman or Coast to Coast you need to make contact with us a minimum of 20 weeks prior to event day, although note that multiple buildups through the year are best – especially if you are a first-timer.

See information on PerformanceLab's Ironman Pack if you want to train for Ironman with us.

Most other distance events you should work on being in contact with us 14 – 16 weeks out from your event.

Costs
All Training Programs follow the same three-step process. Each step is compulsory:
Step 1: Pre-program Consultation (30min): $150.00
Step 2: Program Writing: NZ$100.00 set up/IP and NZ$20.00 per week of training
Step 3: Post-program Consultation - clarity, goals and focus (30min) NZ$150.00

PerformanceLab, founded in 1993, now comprises three separate companies; PerformanceLab (Sport), PLTech and PLHealth.

PerformanceLab (Sport) provides physiological assessment and training program prescription for athletes. PerformanceLab Sport’s clients range from world champion athletes to sedentary individuals with no sporting background who wish to take charge of their health and positively affect their longevity and long term wellbeing. We encourage our clients to “tread in the territory of limitless potential”.

PLTech is a technology development business which designs automated programmes for biomechanical sizing, physiological testing, exercise and health prescription.

PLHealth provides wellness assessment and educational programmes for use as company health promotion projects and more importantly for the individual employee.

The PerformanceLab companies operate from premises on the North Shore, Auckland New Zealand, however we are able to provide all Health Assessment levels to NZ’s main centres outside Auckland with our mobile laboratories.

PROFILE Jon Ackland
B.Sc. Dip. Ex. Sci.

When it comes to training athletes Jon is the definition of the word guru. He is a high performance strategist, specialising particularly in program prescription and planning with over 20 years’ experience in helping top athletes achieve the impossible.

A former rowing national champion and Ironman triathlete he represented New Zealand at two World Ironman Championships. He’s also the author of nine books on sports performance including the best selling "Power to Perform" in Australia and New Zealand and best selling “The Complete Guide to Endurance Training” in Europe. Jon’s most recent book “Beginner’s Half Marathon Trainer” has just been released in the USA.

He presents seminars on sporting high performance worldwide, and he currently co hosts "The High Performance Hour" on Radio Sport where he interviews athletes and determines the strategies high performers use to achieve their goals.

He was involved with making a fascinating TV documentary “Mindgames” following the journey of 8 everyday people in their attempt to complete an Ironman triathlon under his tutelage.

Whilst with the Institute of Sport, Jon worked with the All Blacks, the Auckland Rugby team, America's Cup campaigns, Whitbread Round the World Yacht Racing, New Zealand Cricket, Olympic Yachting and a large number of endurance sports.

Since 1993 Jon has run PerformanceLab which specialises in helping sports people achieve high performance. In that time his athletes have competed in the finals of the last two Olympics, winning over 20 national titles, more than 10 world age-group titles, six junior world titles and most recently winning the Louis Vuitton Cup and challenging for the Americas Cup 2007.

The winning formulas that have helped create endless champion performances have also been translated into programs for beginners. An example of the success achieved with Jon’s programs for everyday people for everyday goals is clearly illustrated with a project involving 550 recreational and sedentary people, who signed up to take part in their (mostly) first Half Marathon, with 90% reaching the start line and 100% completion.

Now Jon is geared up and ready to put his significant high performance experience behind your personal training program to give you the motivation you need to discover that ‘Impossible is Nothing’.