The Corporate Athlete
You train for a job nobody trains for.
Twelve-hour days, three time zones, decisions that cost money when your judgement is tired. The load is real, it is just not physical. And your body absorbs it exactly the same way an athlete's does. We measure what yours can carry, and we build the week around the answer.
22 years in the field
Boardroom, elite sport and high-consequence operational environments
Private by default. Your results are yours
The real load
The performance you are paid for is physiological
Nobody schedules recovery into an executive calendar, because nothing in the calendar looks like training. But sustained cognitive load, travel, disrupted sleep and permanent low-grade urgency are stressors, and the body pays for them on the same account it uses for a hard training week.
The bill arrives quietly: the afternoon that costs more than it used to, the sleep that no longer repairs the day, the weekend spent recovering instead of living. None of that is a character flaw, and no productivity system fixes it. It is capacity, and capacity is measurable.
What we read
One minute. One clear answer.
A readiness test takes about a minute and gives one clear status: how much your body can absorb today, and what is holding it back.
From there the coaching is specific rather than general. Not “sleep more”: this week, your constraint is recovery, so the 6am session comes out and the 9pm inbox check goes with it. Not “manage stress”: your load tolerance is down 14% on your baseline, so the difficult conversation moves to Tuesday morning.
That is what changes: the decisions get made with a number in front of them.
How it runs
Built around a diary that does not bend
01
The intake call
Free, 20 minutes, with a coach. Your goal, your real schedule, your history. Out of it come the level, the testing rhythm and the team.
02
The baseline
Your first full test, and the report that explains it in plain language. No jargon, no dashboard you need training to read.
03
The week
Coaching that fits an executive diary: short, specific, decision-shaped. Testing monthly, bi-monthly or daily, depending on the level.
04
The retest
Where the number moved, and where it did not. The plan changes when the line stalls. That is the whole discipline.
Most corporate athletes start at Level I and move to Level II when they want the daily morning reading. Level III is the full year: readiness, cognitive and performance testing, and our training systems, including altitude, in one protocol.
Your data
Your results are yours
If your company runs an Olynixx programme, this is the part worth being clear about: individual results belong to the individual. Leadership sees an anonymised workforce picture and nothing else. No names, no individual results, no exceptions, and it is written into the agreement before the first test. Executive results never enter a workforce aggregate at all.
The executive layer
Private by contract, not by promise
Some leaders need a programme that never sits inside the workforce system at all: a private contract, a private dashboard, a coach who does not report to HR. That is the executive layer. It uses the same method. It does not share a database with the company programme.
Discretion is the product. Results stay with you. If you later want your organisation measured, that is a separate conversation. And a separate agreement.