VO2 max testing requires a mask to measure oxygen intake and carbon dioxide output to determine your cardiovascular fitness. When you think about how fit you are, you might think about how far you can ...

High-intensity interval training is important, but coming back to your breath can be crucial to helping you train.

VO2 max is a trendy stat for measuring your fitness, and it can help improve longevity too. Having a higher VO2 max is good, but more important for health is how the number changes over time.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Until recently, VO2 max testing has been inaccessible to most everyday athletes. Unless you had an in ...

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 ...

Patients with UAB Sports and Exercise Medicine and the UAB Highlands Family and Community Medicine clinic now have access to VO2 Max testing, which can give both patients and providers a more precise, ...

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 ...

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

Experts explain why this measure of cardiovascular health isn’t just for ‘fitness people,’ and how improving your VO2 max ...

Whoop, the screenless watchband-like wearable that beat out Oura in my non-watch fitness tracker showdown, has just added a VO2 max feature to its app. Now, just like Garmin, Apple Watch, and others, ...

Choosing your pace based on threshold is more effective than calculations based on maximum heart rate, research shows.

Colvin says to measure VO2 max you’ll need to be in an exercise medicine lab or a doctor’s office that offers the test. The ...