Unlock a longer, healthier life by understanding your VO2 max, a key indicator of oxygen utilization during exercise. Experts now highlight this measu ...

The V stands for volume, and the O2 stands for oxygen. VO2 max is a way to measure the maximum rate of oxygen your body absorbs and consumes during exercise. It might also be called your oxygen uptake ...

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 ...

When you think about how fit you are, you might think about how far you can run or how many push-ups you can do. Or maybe you think about health metrics like your resting heart rate or heart rate ...

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VO2max is a measure of cardiovascular fitness, and many watches and fitness trackers can estimate it for you. Here's what you ...

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 ...

For those unfamiliar, VO2 max might sound like the latest performance-enhancing supplement, but it’s actually the term used to describe your body’s maximum oxygen uptake during aerobic exercise. If ...

Take my comparison with Tadej Pogačar. The Slovenian has a VO2 max of 89.4 and a resting heart rate of 37 beats per minute; ...

There are numerous paths to living a longer, healthier life, mostly through physical activity, diet and other lifestyle factors. But according to board-certified cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Jeremy ...

If you’ve hung out with enough avid cyclists, swimmers, or runners, you’ve probably heard the term VO2 max come up in conversation. You might have heard that it’s a good way to determine how fit you ...