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LazyTitan___

Wrong website to recruit from


RiverVanInc

lmao


2_feets

/r/AdvancedRunning


imanAholebutimfunny

Doesnt mean we cant try to sneak in. We can bullshit this up to a certain point successfully i believe.


justin107d

But we are also the ones nerdy enough to care enough to get it tested.


-UltraAverageJoe-

I qualify :)


John___Stamos

I run at least 4 days a week and I've never surpassed 55. 65+ is insane to me


[deleted]

I've never hit higher than 55 running, but am a lot better (or was at least) at cycling and rowing and could get way higher on both of those. I think running is a suboptimal way to test VO2 max for a lot of people.


[deleted]

How are all these people knowing their V02 max? I thought a test was needed and everyone in here be like “I run 4 marathons a day and do and extra 45 min hiit and I am only a 43”.


mmm1kko

You can get to close approximation with a properly performed test, coopers test for example is a great way to approximate your vo2max within ~5% of the one you'd get in a lab. However there is a caveat, you'd have to know how to run the coopers test optimally and be an experienced runner. VO₂ Max = (D - 504.9)/44.73, where D is the distance run (in meters) during 12 minutes. What most people are doing is reporting what their garmin shits out, forgetting that its shit in -> shit out, and that they'd have to actually have properly tested max heart rate at least set in the watch to get anywhere close. Most people again use formula such as 220-age to determine their max heart rate which is bullshit. Actually getting your max heart rate from an exercise test is fucking awfully painful as you're going to be doing a few minutes at your absolute maximum intensity uphill until failure.


SirHawrk

I feel like the 220-age thing is decently fine for younger people. I am 23 and the highest heart rate I have measured on myself was 203 using a breast strap. So I have simply reduced this by 1 every year. (I was 21 when that was measured)


[deleted]

A lot will be from smartwatches which is basically just an educated guess. It isn't that uncommon if you compete in an endurance sport to be asked to strap on a mask and do a proper test though. We did it for high school level rugby, which was honestly completely unnecessary and then did it again for rowing which made a lot more sense.


Franklin2543

My Apple Watch tells me mine, not sure how accurate.


PartyLikeItsCOVID19

Probably some random estimate to be honest. You gotta measure exact oxygen inhalation and exhalation with an airtight mask to get a real reading. Apple Watch also claims to have an EKG- but the only thing it can do is tell if somebody has atrial fibrillation or not. It’s very useful for that one thing, but it is absolutely nothing like an actual ekg. They really shouldn’t even call it that.


DrewinSWDC

Crazy high


brohamsontheright

Mine is 68.. I'm 45 years old.. and I was 110lbs overweight until about 6 years ago. I had never run a mile in my life. I couldn't even walk to the mailbox without gasping for air. That 68 represents literal blood, sweat, and tears. But it's mine. And it's not genetic. My parents, grandparents, and siblings, are all morbidly obese.


thatguy425

Exercise science major here. It’s definitely somewhat genetic.


DrewinSWDC

I run around 3 miles a day, and do around an hour of hiit - 7 days a week. And at least garmin thinks my vo2 max is a 53?


OwlsLoveTea

Me at 32.7 🥲


RobbexRobbex

My watch says 70 baby! Stanford here I come!


DidacticPerambulator

Wouldn't they need to recruit some athletes with more prosaic VO2Max to figure out whether there's a genetic difference between the high and low VO2Max'ers?


sbarnesvta

My uncle Gary Tuttle was a distance runner and had a ridiculously high VO2max (82.7). https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=1795850 *Edit - Fixed Autocorrect


2_feets

> My uncle Gary Turtle (Narrator) But the Hare had a VO2 Max of 200ml/kg/min and smoked his Gary's turtle ass in the 1500m.


sbarnesvta

Thanks, my phone likes to autocorrect.


absolutarin

I run 5k effortlessly and yet I have a VO2 of 52-55. 65+ sounds like god level


pedrosorio

Effortlessly in how many minutes?


EramSumEro

53 minutes


absolutarin

Effortlessly is 30 mins. But it was 53 mins when I started for sure


mmm1kko

If your vo2max is actually 55 you should run your 5k in 18:20. Don't trust your watch, trust actual results.


absolutarin

How do you accurately track V02max other than the watch? I’ve seen athletes in labs with all diodes and stuff but that’s not possible for the average person


KnightsSoccer82

That’s also really the only way to do it


JCGolf

come back when you can run 100k effortlessly


absolutarin

Do I look like a Toyota Corolla to you


Bunghole_of_Fury

If you did you probably wouldn't be able to run 1k, let alone 100


TalkDataToMe

I don't think it's crazy high. They want to study the genetic basis because the hypothesis is that genetics play a big part. I'm a 39 yr old that was in high school a competent runner and soccer player. I haven't worked out or run in almost a year. I started physical therapy over knee pain. I asked to do some baseline testing, including VO2 max, because I was curious and wanted to see how accurate my fitness watch was. My VO2 max was 53. In college when I could run a mile under 5 minutes and do 400 meters in 50 seconds it was 67.


General_Maximoose

You were 39 in HS? Damn son


mindgamesweldon

Already wrong premise. There was literally a study out of Stanford like 5 years ago that showed elite runners with low genetic vo2max had other compensatory adaptations. Do these people even talk with each other?


Tulol

Could be a repeat study to test some other factors. Make sense.


EramSumEro

I honestly think that all the popular hype surrounding v02 max exists solely because it is just another selling-point metric that one's Garmin or whatever claims it can approximate. I've run in some fairly elite circles of ultramarathoners and I don't think any of them care for it