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 ...

Ascension St. John’s Human Performance Lab helps people measure heart health and build fitness plans for the year ahead.

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 ...

Until recently, VO2 max testing has been inaccessible to most everyday athletes. Unless you had an in with an exercise physiology lab, you had to rely on back-of-the-envelope calculations or wearable ...

Jakob Roze, CSCS, is a health writer and high-end personal trainer. He is the founder and CEO of RozeFit, a high-end concierge personal training practice and online blog. VO2 max measures how much ...

Maybe your smartwatch has been telling you your VO2 max for a while now, but you’re not sure how accurate it is. Or maybe you’ve recently been targeted by social media ads for fancy running labs ...

If you think of ways to measure your overall health, certain benchmarks likely come to mind. The bloodwork you get done at your annual physical, maybe. Your body mass index. Perhaps how much you can ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- EHE Health, a national preventive healthcare provider, is introducing a first-of-its-kind VO2 max testing innovation to the United States to help patients better ...

I just took a short but brutal test to determine exactly how fit I am. I didn’t get the answer I was hoping for.

When it comes to fitness and even longevity, there is one number to rule them all: VO2 max.

A DEXA produces a color coded image of you body composition to let you know where the fat and muscle are located “Michigan faces some of the highest rates of preventable chronic conditions, by making ...

A central metric in Dr. Goel's framework is VO2 Max, the measure of how much oxygen the body can use during exercise. Studies show that each one MET increase may correspond to a 13 to 15% reduction in ...