FOR ABOUT A a year, an exercise physiologist I know kept offering to do a VO2 max test on me. For more than a year, I’d been resisting it. Not because it’s not important. Plenty of trends have come ...

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Essentially a measure of your cardiovascular fitness or aerobic capacity, your VO2 max is often considered a must-know metric if you’re a runner – especially if you’re looking to improve your running ...

A. VO2 max is defined by author and physiology researcher Stephen Seiler as the maximum volume of oxygen that a body can consume during intense, whole-body exercise while breathing air at sea level.

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