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VO2 Max Fitness Test

  • 17-07-2004 7:07pm
    #1
    emertoff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 114 ✭✭


    Anyone have any info on how to do your own test for this?

    I get it done at the gym every 10 weeks or so. Don't know what you guys do, but where I go, it's lasts about 8 minutes on the bike with an instructor taking readings from the heart monitor and then giving me the result on a scale of 1-10 at the end.

    It seems simple enough so I'd like to be able to calculate it for myself. Does anyone have a a simple procedure to follow or a link where I can get it?

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    Guv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 202 ✭✭Guv


    You can get it done properly at the blackrock clinic for not a lot and it takes longer than 8mins, mine used to last 20mins or so.


  • #3
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,201 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Originally posted by emertoff
    Anyone have any info on how to do your own test for this?

    I get it done at the gym every 10 weeks or so. Don't know what you guys do, but where I go, it's lasts about 8 minutes on the bike with an instructor taking readings from the heart monitor and then giving me the result on a scale of 1-10 at the end.

    It seems simple enough so I'd like to be able to calculate it for myself. Does anyone have a a simple procedure to follow or a link where I can get it?

    Thanks.

    You can buy a HRM now and it will calculate your VO2 max while you are lying on a bed!

    The more expensive ones like the Polar s400 series will do it.

    Don't know how it works but it also gives you your max heart rate while lying corpse-like on a bed!


  • #4
    tunney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    The Polar watches only give a very vague approximation of your VO2max and are only really usefull in comparing your present reading to previous ones and not for use in comparing to other peoples etc etc.

    That being said my S210 says my vo2max is 68 and a lab test said 63.2 so they aren't that far off.


  • #5
    emertoff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 114 ✭✭emertoff


    Ta for that info guys.:cool:


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