A simple 5-minute power test and a bit of mathematics will spare you a costly trip to a performance lab for specialist VO2 ...

"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 ...

On TikTok, VO2 max is going viral as the key to improving your endurance during a workout. In short, you can think of this metric as the maximum amount of oxygen your body uses during exercise – V ...

EXPERT ADVICE: What exactly is VO2 max testing? Who needs it? And what are the benefits? Xpress catches up with Sean Simonds, clinic director for Movement for Life Physical Therapy, to find out. Photo ...

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, ...

Fitness is full of numbers meant to help you become faster and stronger. There’s your mile run time, your resting heart rate and measures of strength and flexibility. But perhaps the gold standard is ...

Increasing your vo2 max can be simple, but that doesn't mean it's easy. It has many names: "maximal oxygen consumption," "maximal oxygen uptake," "peak oxygen uptake," "maximal aerobic capacity." ...

A.V. Hill was a 4:45 miler and already had a Nobel Prize for work in muscle physiology when he and Lupton began studying VO2 max. The experiments involved subjects running around Hill’s back garden in ...

Many people run for the endorphins and sense of achievement rather than the statistics. However, for several runners, dialling into fitness metrics is a big part of the process, as it helps to guide ...

As a teenager, Oskar Svendsen emerged as one of the sport's most promising talents... then he disappeared. Tom Davidson finds ...

Here’s a graph showing the fraction of workout time spent at above 90 percent of max heart rate (black bars) and above 90 ...