"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." FOR ABOUT A a year, an exercise physiologist I know kept offering to do a VO2 max test on me. For more ...

You should want to know your VO2 max for many reasons. Athletes who seek optimal performance by taking part in competitions learn valuable information from tests that measure your maximum heart rate, ...

So you just got your VO2 max number by charting it on your watch, estimating your number at home, or even heading to a lab for a more formal test … but now what? You have that shiny number in hand, ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. I'm what I call an "on-paper" athlete. I've been running for a decade, I regularly take weightlifting ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. Whoop, the screenless ...

A.V. Hill was a 4:45 miler and already had a Nobel Prize for work in muscle physiology when he and Lupton began studying VO2 max. The experiments involved subjects running around Hill’s back garden in ...

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Back in 2023, researchers pumped the brakes on one of my most cherished beliefs about exercise: the idea that aerobic fitness makes your brain healthier and more resistant to age-related cognitive ...