CosmoPulse™
CosmoPulse™
Perform · Compete · Grow
Two athletes train the same and recover differently. That difference does not sit in the load, but in the adaptive capacity underneath it. That capacity can be read, and it can grow.
One story, three levels
Every stakeholder recognises themselves in one of three levels — and at each level, someone wins. The three names are one pair: what we promise, and what it delivers.
The player wins. The right stimulus, for the right athlete, at the right moment.
The team wins. More players fit, more often, when it matters most.
The club wins. Optimal readiness, despite an intense fixture schedule and heavy travel, resulting in a sustainable career.
Why CosmoPulse
Every unavailable player affects training quality, tactical flexibility and competitive performance. CosmoPulse helps clubs improve Player Availability by supporting well-founded decisions on training load, recovery, nutrition and personalised/individual guidance.
Well-founded decisions on load, recovery and nutrition help keep players fit across congestion and travel.
Every player responds differently to the same load. Understand your own biology and personalise your approach to perform better today and build a sustainable career.
Personalised insights strengthen the existing performance set-up and support better decisions on load management, recovery and individual guidance — from academy to first team.
Develop professionals who understand their own performance and build habits that support consistent availability, stronger results and greater long-term value.
What the tools read
An afternoon kick-off is not an evening one. A travel day loads the body differently than a standard training day. A run of matches calls for a different approach than matches with proper recovery in between. The athlete is the same, but the conditions change. That is adaptive capacity, the body's ability to adjust to every context. CosmoPulse makes that underlying biological layer visible, enriches the data you already use, and supports a data-driven approach that explains why the same load does not land the same way on every athlete.
Because CosmoPulse reads your data streams together, from one validated baseline, your staff gets substantiated tools for well-considered decisions, tuned to how each athlete adapts.
The specific move that fits this athlete, under these conditions, now.
When it lands — the moment that makes the action work. No fixed duration; the window is set by the day.
The shift
GPS, wearables, force plates, bloods and video have given elite sport an extraordinary amount of information. The next step is not more data — it is connecting it biologically, so signals that used to sit side by side become one richer read.
AI helps surface patterns faster. It is the accelerator, not the brain. The judgement stays where it belongs — with your staff, on a Tuesday, before a Wednesday match.
The technology underneath
Player Availability is the value we deliver. Co-metabolism — how each athlete's biology and micro-organisms process load and nutrition — is the technology that makes it possible. It is where twenty years of our own research sits. CosmoPulse stacks what we already know into one decision layer. From the foundation up:
The engine that weighs these layers stays ours. You see the read and the action — never the model underneath. What you rely on is the outcome, and that is what we stand behind.
How you read it
CosmoPulse translates the architecture into six readable signals. All six are read every day, but they move on different timescales — from what shifts today to what carries a season. Every signal uses the same action zones, so your whole staff reads them the same way.
CosmoPulse informs readiness and adaptation. It never advises selection, line-ups or substitutions — that stays with the coaching staff. The data serves the athlete; at the moment of execution, it falls silent.
The staff dashboard
Performance, medical and sporting staff open one screen. Each athlete on a single line — the signals that move day to day, and today's action word — so every conversation starts from the same picture, and Player Availability is managed a day at a time.
Illustration with anonymised athletes. The dashboard reports readiness and adaptation only — it never proposes a line-up or a substitution.
Where it starts
Every athlete starts with one full analysis in our own lab — DNA, microbiome and metabolome — the same sampling and the same lab as My InnerSelfie. It maps who this athlete is biologically: how they absorb and process nutrients, their gut picture and tolerance, their sensitivities. This is the fixed layer everything else reads against.
You do not throw anything away. Existing lab results, GPS and wearable feeds, blood markers, training schedules, sleep and travel — you upload it all, and we read it biologically alongside the baseline. One place, one connected read, instead of ten dashboards side by side.
A personalisation intake then configures the platform to this athlete — sport and position from a list of 117, environment, load, and life beyond the sport.
Not every country has a laboratory around the corner, and no squad waits for a courier. The read is the same in all three; what differs is how certain it becomes, and you see that for yourself.
We send the kit. Taken at home, sent back.
No lab shipment needed for the gut and fluid layer.
Already measured? Then you do not start again.
The kit travels. And where it cannot reach, digital markers do.
And once a season, a retest. A baseline is a starting point, not a verdict. The retest reads the layer that actually moves — the gut picture, the metabolome, the resilience underneath — against your own earlier reading. Your DNA is not measured again; it did not change. What you see is whether the adaptive capacity grew, and where.
Every read carries its own reliability. A score without a reliability is an opinion. That is why each signal shows how certain its read is, based on the sources actually connected. Connect more, and it rises — and you see exactly which source sharpens which signal. CosmoPulse does not predict; it reads what is there, and tells you how sure it is.
Food-First Academy
A young player was stuck at the top of the triangle, on strength. His endurance would not follow. The reason was not in training: a lactose intolerance was quietly holding back his recovery.
The fix was not a report. It was walking the supermarket aisles with him and his mother, showing on the shelves what did work and what did not. That worked. And that is exactly the problem — one expert, one shop, one player, one afternoon. It does not exist for two hundred players across three age groups.
So the question is not how to write a sharper report. It is how to put that moment — the right person, at the right shelf, at the right time — in the pocket of every athlete. That is the choice layer.
Food-first is taught from the youth academy up — playful, professional, and lasting. Each age group gets its own version: less reporting for the youngest, more depth as they grow. An API coupling brings it into the club's own platform, and each player gets a daily nutrition tip that fits their profile and the day ahead.
Both answer the same question — does this product fit this athlete, today? The only difference is where the product data comes from.
The athlete points the camera at the barcode. It works in a foreign supermarket during a training camp or a tournament — exactly where the habits fall away and the mistakes get made.
No barcode? A photo of the ingredient list, read as text. Still uncertain? HostHero says so — a guess is worse than no answer.
The partner's full range is uploaded in advance and analysed dish by dish. When the chilled container arrives, every player opens their own version of the same menu.
A closed universe: no unknown products, and the partner can steer supply to what the squad turns out to need.
Three words — the same ones the club prescription layer already uses, so player and staff never speak in two languages. No scores, no percentages, no lab jargon.
Never on screen: calories, weight, body composition, day totals, or any judgement about what was already eaten. HostHero answers one product on the athlete's request, then goes quiet. Anyone who wants a full plan gets the dietitian — the app is the wingman, never the replacement.
From the baseline · changes each quarter
From the six signals · changes daily
A product label tells you what is in the package. These two layers tell you what it means for this athlete, today.
By using CosmoPulse, you get
More players fit, more often — readiness protected across congestion and travel.
The right stimulus, for the right athlete, at the right moment.
Individual biology guiding the plan, from the academy up.
Recovery and gut resilience read before load, not after a setback.
Staff, medical and player all read the same zones and the same words.
A decision layer on top of what you already run — not another system to replace it.
Choose your world
Every physical movement or training goal can be analysed through three dominant biomotor abilities — strength, endurance and speed/coordination — the fundamental building blocks of every human performance. The science is one; the language is not. Pick the world that matches your sport's dominant profile and CosmoPulse speaks its jargon — the same split as the PULSE trilogy, each with its own Experience to feel the biology first-hand.
Built on twenty years
The PULSE trilogy explains the science behind the platform — adaptation, co-metabolism and the human ecosystem — one book for each world of sport.
Seven tracks per book — Story · Science · Output · Torque · Pomodoro · Experience · Connect — so every reader can choose their own route in.
The full grounding lives in the trilogy, the podcast and the lexicon. Anyone who wants to see how it all connects finds it there — with sources, evidence levels and the nuance a website cannot carry.
One analysis, three destinations
CosmoPulse does not stand alone. The same adaptive capacity carries your health, your performance and what you take in daily — whoever moves across later does not start again.
The same analysis, read towards how you feel: energy, digestion, resilience. For anyone who wants to live well without a fixture list.
Discover My InnerSelfie →The same analysis, read towards what Saturday asks of you. Six signals, one read a day, your guide in your pocket.
You are here ↓Not a loose jar but a system: formulas built on the axes between gut and brain, muscle, immune system, skin and heart.
Discover the system →A decision layer for performance, medical and sporting staff. Its own platform and app, on top of the systems your club already runs.
The same biological intelligence for personal health, for the individual.
Talks & workshops
Our talks and workshop programme will be announced here shortly.
Meet the authors behind the books
As Coordinator Individual Performance at Club Brugge KV, Carl leads the club's Daily Individual Performance Cycle: a full-day readiness framework conceptualizing total load across disciplines and aligning medical, physical, nutritional, cognitive and lifestyle pillars into one coherent process.
Across more than a decade shaping high-performance environments in elite football, Carl has built a reputation for turning complex data into behaviour-driven decisions. After delivering strong pedagogical leadership and didactical expertise and building foundations in communication & people management in education, he is now designing integrated systems that maximise player availability, elevate physical output and accelerate individual long-term development, showing transfer from theory to behaviour.
He is known for his structured, dynamic people-first approach that builds trust and genuine buy-in, so systems and data support the player rather than overwhelm him, aligning language in one shared objective. Carl's work reflects a deep belief that high performance is not the result of isolated interventions, but of daily habits engineered with precision and communicated with clarity. His philosophy — Protect. Progress. Perform. — has guided both youth development and first-team performance structures, and continues to shape how multidisciplinary teams collaborate inside high-pressure football performance environments.
He is available as a workshop facilitator and keynote speaker for clubs, federations, universities and all performance departments seeking to strengthen their performance vision, integrate staff processes or modernise individual player development.
Physical Performance Lead for the Socceroos, and former Head of Performance at Feyenoord Rotterdam. A physiotherapist by training (Master of Physiotherapy, University of Sydney), Leigh takes a holistic, athlete-centred approach that integrates physical preparation, rehabilitation and lifestyle rather than treating them as separate disciplines.
Physical Performance Lead for the Socceroos, Australia's men's national football team, since October 2024 — appointed as part of a new technical staff with the team bottom of their qualification group, he contributed to an eleven-game unbeaten run that secured Australia's place at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Before returning home he spent five years at Feyenoord Rotterdam, joining as a rehabilitation physiotherapist and performance coach in 2019 and rising to Head of Performance, leading the first-team performance programme through a period that produced an Eredivisie title, the KNVB Beker, the Dutch Supercup, a UEFA Europa Conference League final and successive Champions League campaigns.
He holds a Master of Physiotherapy and a Bachelor of Health Sciences in Movement Science, both from the University of Sydney. He co-founded SpeedPowerPlay, a digital platform delivering performance education and consultancy to coaches and athletes worldwide, and presents internationally with Frans Bosch Systems, with whom he developed a framework for ACL injury rehabilitation delivered as a practical workshop. His consultancy spans sports and continents — including the Charlotte Hornets (NBA), the Wallabies, the Sydney Swans, Fiji Rugby and the Australian women's Rugby Sevens squad ahead of the Paris Olympics. He lives in Sydney.
Biochemist, specialised in molecular health and epigenetics, and co-founder of Cosmogroup, a research and innovation house focused on the interaction between biology, nutrition, lifestyle and human performance.
For more than twenty years, Petra has researched how genetics, micro-organisms, metabolism and environmental factors together determine how people respond to load, recover and develop. From that systems approach she developed the PULSE philosophy: a biological decision framework that translates complex data into understandable insights and targeted actions for athletes, coaches and multidisciplinary performance teams.
While PULSE 1 is fully dedicated to football, the complete PULSE trilogy is aimed at international elite sport. The principles behind PULSE are not tied to one sport, but support athletes, coaches and medical teams in understanding the unique biological response of every athlete, regardless of discipline.
Alongside her research work, Petra built international expertise in developing, formulating and manufacturing high-quality sports nutrition and nutraceuticals for elite sports brands worldwide. That experience connects fundamental science with the daily practice of training, recovery, nutrition and performance. For the PULSE library she works with leading performance experts from international elite sport — their day-to-day practical experience forms an essential part of the PULSE philosophy and helps bridge science, coaching and performance at the highest level.
Her greatest drive is a deep respect and lasting fascination for athletes: for their discipline, their perseverance and their continuous pursuit of getting the most out of their talent. With PULSE, Petra wants to contribute to a new generation of performance, in which science not only helps athletes perform better, but also protects talent, reduces injury, supports sustainable development and gives athletes the chance to build a longer, healthier and more successful career.
As Head of Performance, Ruben Peeters built an elite track record across three top European football leagues — KRC Genk, Feyenoord and Liverpool — winning the championship title at every single club he worked at. His defining strength has been aligning the moving parts across departments, turning daily collaboration into a team-wide commitment to the right decisions.
Ruben Peeters holds a master's degree in Training & Coaching (football) from KU Leuven, a foundation that shaped his scientific, structured approach to performance. He went on to build an elite track record as Head of Performance across three top European football leagues: four years at KRC Genk, three years at Feyenoord, and two years at Liverpool, winning the championship title at every single club he worked at. Throughout his career, his defining strength has been aligning the moving parts across the different departments around a team, turning daily collaboration into a team-wide commitment to making the right decisions and creating tailor-made solutions every day so players could perform in their best possible shape, a strength reflected in his reputation for consistently high player availability. That mindset, combined with a drive for innovative and out-of-the-box thinking, has been the engine behind every step of that success.
Working this closely with athletes taught him that every individual is precisely and uniquely "wired," which means tailor-made solutions are required on every level, so that in practice he is constantly working with a plan within a plan. In his experience, the biological layer of performance is still too often underrepresented, even though every person's internal processes are organized in a completely different way, making it a key factor in truly understanding and steering load monitoring across a squad. His interest in this biological layer of football began eight years ago, and he has since had the privilege of following its development up close, having experienced firsthand with his own players the real impact it can make.
Our co-authors bring their lived experience to the books. The PULSE science and its intellectual property belong to Cosmogroup.
CosmoLexicon
The words the sector searches for — and what CosmoPulse adds to each. Search or tap to open.
How many players are fit to play, and how often. CosmoPulse adds: it reads adaptive capacity day to day, so availability is managed — not hoped for.
Availability across the whole selection, not only the first XI.
The period an athlete stays deployable. CosmoPulse helps protect and extend it.
Steering how much load an athlete carries. CosmoPulse adds: the biological layer beneath the load.
The body's response to training — heart rate, perceived exertion. CosmoPulse reads the metabolic and autonomic response underneath it.
The work done — distance, sprints, watts. The starting point CosmoPulse connects to biology.
Recent load against the longer baseline. CosmoPulse explains why the same ratio lands differently for each athlete.
How much load a given athlete absorbs. Read from co-metabolism, not squad averages.
Matches in quick succession with little recovery — where availability is won or lost.
The build of the training calendar (Tudor Bompa). CosmoPulse individualises it to biology.
Is this athlete ready today? CosmoPulse adds: the metabolic and autonomic layer that explains the answer.
Readiness for today's match specifically.
Readiness of the muscle–nerve system — with the layer beneath it read too.
Recognising and steering fatigue before it costs availability.
What happens after effort. CosmoPulse reads whether recovery actually landed.
Reducing injury risk by reading recovery and resilience before load — not after a setback.
Preventing re-injury, and the chance of it, after a setback.
Cleared to play again — medical clearance.
Back to performing at level — the step beyond clearance that CosmoPulse supports.
Continuous follow-up of the athlete over time.
The one-off full analysis — DNA, microbiome, metabolome — that maps who an athlete is biologically. The validated starting point everything else reads against.
The three levels at which CosmoPulse delivers, each paired with the outcome Cosmogroup names in Dutch: Perform is gerichte ontwikkeling, Compete is duurzame beschikbaarheid, Grow is beschermde waarde. One frame, two languages, the same promise.
A second reading against an athlete's own baseline, once a season. DNA is not repeated — it does not change. What is read again is the layer that moves: microbiome and metabolome, and with them the growth in adaptive capacity.
Images of stool and urine, taken morning, midday and evening across three consecutive days, read in place of a microbiome and urine analysis. The same read with lighter logistics — the route that lets an athlete start anywhere in the world.
The continuous interaction between the host and their micro-organisms — how you actually process what you eat, not just what you eat.
How the same athlete responds differently under different conditions — an afternoon or evening match, travel, a mountain stage or a time-trial. What the tools help a staff read.
Profile, Ω, CRAS, FLEX, RISE and BRI — six readable outputs that translate the whole architecture into one shared language for the staff.
Every signal lands in one of three zones: PROTECT, ADAPT or START — always read left-to-right, red to green. The thresholds behind them stay ours.
How sure each signal's read is — shown per signal, so staff know how much weight to give it. It rises as more sources are connected. CosmoPulse does not predict; it reads what is there and says how certain that read is.
The one-line summary per athlete, e.g. Ω 62 · CRAS 78 · BRI 71 → ADAPT.
The targeted action that fits this athlete under these conditions, now.
The window in which a Torque lands — the moment that makes it work. No fixed duration; the day sets the window.
The decision architecture — Observe, Structure, Classify, Act, Refine. It reads and verbalises every layer, but never makes the call itself.
The friendly guide in the athlete's pocket. Answers one product at a time in human language — the wingman, never the replacement for the dietitian.
Profile is the static biomotor signature — how this athlete is built to function, as the starting point. A Pulse Type is a separate, internal chronotype read. They are not the same thing.
The API-first way the decision layer plugs into a club's own platform — API, webhook or an embeddable insight card. The club keeps its own brand.
For the individual athlete
Clubs and teams work with us through a tailored proposal. The individual professional athlete can start immediately — worldwide, online, at your own pace.
One full biological analysis — DNA, microbiome, metabolome. Your validated starting point, read against everything that follows.
Order your baselineWeekly, daily or seasonal readings of your six signals — one clear action line, tuned to how you adapt.
Choose your readUpload your existing lab, GPS and wearable data and have it read biologically alongside your baseline — topped up with digital markers where a lab is out of reach.
Start with your own dataA second reading against your own baseline, once a season. Your DNA does not change, so it is not measured again — what is read is the layer that moves: the gut picture, the metabolome, and how much your adaptive capacity has grown.
Order a retestWorldwide, online, at your own pace. Payment and delivery follow our terms and informed consent. Clubs and teams work through a proposal — request one here.
How you start
Three kinds of purchase: a measurement, a personalisation, and a subscription. For clubs, setup and a staff dashboard are added. No prices are listed publicly — every proposal is shaped to the club.
Annual up front costs ten months instead of twelve, and there is no minimum term. Ask for an indicative proposal below.
Request info
One read of readiness, load and adaptation — built on top of the systems you already trust. Tell us a little and we will come back with an indicative proposal shaped to your club.
Prefer email? Write to cosmopulse@cosmogroup.eu