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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. The more you work out, ...

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 and gone in my ...

If you’re a fitness fiend or working to improve your health, you’re probably always looking for ways to run faster and farther, train harder and push your limits. You might even already track a number ...

Maximal oxygen uptake, or VO2-max, tells you how fast you can deliver oxygen for use by your muscles. Its basic units are volume (i.e. litres of oxygen) per unit time (i.e. minutes). But the VO2-max ...

Are you tracking enough of your fitness metrics yet? No? Great! Here's another one: VO2 max. It's a measurement that's traditionally been used by elite athletes, especially runners and cyclists, but ...

Question: I like to challenge myself physically, whether it’s working out, cycling or cross-country skiing. I’ve heard about VO2 max testing. What could I gain from it? Answer: A VO2 max test measures ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Increasing your vo2 max can be simple, but that doesn't mean it's easy. It has many names: "maximal oxygen consumption," "maximal ...

"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 ...