Guess my VO2 Max

high 59, low 60

I am very interested to see your results. We are very close. I did 5K this summer at 19:35 and recent 70.3 at 4:58. My garmin has me at 55.

I'll say 56 just because.

I'll play. 54/55.I've found between all my running distances the VO2 calculator like Daniels uses in his book was pretty spot on for me.

What kind of equipment?

Good met cart - mid 50's

New Leaf or similar - 40 to mid 60's

Shane

the assumption is on an accurate measurement

winner has to explain how he came to his number

I assume it's "price is right rules", where it's closest without going over

He said nothing about how we make are "guess"!  So if he measures 48 and comes back and states BS this or Garmin BS that and it turns out to be a Leaf measurement what's the assumption then...

If he gets all the data including the various VO2 levels at various paces you can get a good idea if the data is good.

He should note the protocol, ie how many minutes between steps, size of the step increment. Incline of the treadmill as well

Hopefully they are taking blood as well.

3mar, try and get as much of the data as you can. There is sometimes very useful info in there.

How is the test being done? on a bike, treadmill?
and how much do you weight?

Edited by mike761 2015-11-12 6:59 AM

I'll do my best to get as much information as I can. I don't know if they are taking blood or not. I really didn't get any details.

The test is being done on a treadmill. I know that it involves a facemask but other than that, I couldn't tell you. I'll know more after the test.

I weigh about 158. I'm a hair under 6' and I'm a virgo.

Didn't need your sign!

If you were doing this on a bike I would have guessed you at about 48- 50, because your not well trained on the bike and I have seen runners not get high VO2 max measurements when done on the bike.

since your doing it on a treadmill, I'm going to say 56. make sure someone is there to catch you when you collapse

Edited by mike761 2015-11-12 8:22 AM

Is this going to be puke inducing like the FTP test?

It's different but as "enjoyable".
You will probably hit pretty close to maxHR.
You normally do this until complete exhaustion so on a treadmill you don't want to be launched off the back.

If you do it right someone will need to catch you! good times

other than a cool number to talk about around a water cooler, isn't VO2 max a fairly useless number?

VO2 max is just a measure of maximal oxygen uptake and weight, right?

wouldn't LT, VDOT, or some other measure of running fitness be more beneficial?

It's a free test, so I figured why not. As far as usefullness; I wasn't planning on really using it for anything. I do all my running on feal anyway. I'm still pretty new to the sport, so I'm continually learning what all the metrics are. I'll have to look up what LT and VDOT are.

During a VO2max test they can extract other information.

If properly done you get your VO2max, your LT, running economy and fuel utilization at various paces.

A Vo2max test is far from being necessary but it does provide useful information



Edited by marcag 2015-11-12 9:53 AM

...and the winner is....drumroll please.....



a tie between marcag and dmiller, with LB in second assuming we don't do price is right rules.

My result was 59.7.



I didn't get the name of the testing equipment they had. Everything was branded with the gym name. I'm sure I could look it up. The gym is Lifetime Fitness. The test itself included a 15 minute warmup where they started me off slow and increased speed every two minutes to what would be about zone 3/4 based on the questions they asked me. Then I had a 5 minute break. The second test started a bit faster, and increased every two minutes and continued until failure. I made it to about 21 minutes at which point I was running at 10 mph (they didn't increase it after that) at a 1% incline. I maintained that about 4 or 5 minutes before stopping.

The mask REALLY bothered me. I didn't like it at all. I felt like my breathing was really restricted and felt clostrophobic. I wasn't a fan at all.

Good news is that number sounds pretty accurate. It is exactly where the math of a "normal" person would put it. It says a lot for your potential to KQ (in a positive way)


Edited by marcag 2015-11-12 5:12 PM