"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." FOR ABOUT A a year, an exercise physiologist I know kept offering to do a VO2 max test on me. For more ...

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VO2 Max vs Lactate Threshold: Which to Focus On? However, if you have a watch and a treadmill (or a track where you measure the distance you cover), you can use a relatively simple testing protocol ...

If it seems like everyone in your run club is talking about VO2 max these days, we wouldn’t be surprised. This metric—which is essentially a measure of your cardio fitness—is a zeitgeisty topic, ...

Professional triathlete Kristian Blummenfelt registered a mind-bending score.

Are you tracking enough of your fitness metrics yet? No? Great! Here's another one: VO2 max. It's a measurement that's traditionally been used by elite athletes, especially runners and cyclists, but ...

After running for over a decade, I wanted to see how healthy my heart is. I got an active metabolic assessment at Life Time, measuring my VO2 max and heart rate. I also learned which running speeds ...

This easy test can help you get a gauge on your VO2 max—without a watch.

An impressively comprehensive new study from Stanford University has delivered the most thorough investigation into the human body’s molecular response to exercise ever conducted. The research ...

My summer of running workouts has been, in a word, comfortable. I haven't had any real interest in doing virtual races created by this pandemic. My last virtual competitions were Pella's Klompen ...