Your watch’s VO2 max isn’t perfect, but you can improve its accuracy with better data and heart-rate tracking.

If it seems like everyone in your run club is talking about VO2 max these days, we wouldn’t be surprised. This metric—which is essentially a measure of your cardio fitness—is a zeitgeisty topic, ...

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.

By most measures, Norwegian triathlete Kristian Blummenfelt is the standard of peak performance in athletics. He won the gold ...

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 ...

VO2 max, the measure of how much oxygen the body consumes during exercise, has become a ubiquitous tool for professional ...

Setting a new personal max is a great way to chart your progress toward your fitness goals—so what’s the easiest way to do that? One useful step is to improve VO2 max, which is a measure of how much ...

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 ...

While heart health and overall longevity is often linked with lipid profiles and metabolic capacity, one ultimate measure takes a silent shot. Emerging studies and health experts are paying closer ...

(Philadelphia, PA) - Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine -- in the largest study to date of female heart failure patients who underwent a specialized stress test called ...