High-intensity interval training is important, but coming back to your breath can be crucial to helping you train.

If it seems like everyone in your running sphere is talking about VO2 max at the moment, then we wouldn’t be surprised. That’s because there are some real benefits to knowing this metric – which is, ...

VO2 max testing requires a mask to measure oxygen intake and carbon dioxide output to determine your cardiovascular fitness. When you think about how fit you are, you might think about how far you can ...

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 ...

Ascension St. John’s Human Performance Lab helps people measure heart health and build fitness plans for the year ahead.

A. VO2 max is defined by author and physiology researcher Stephen Seiler as the maximum volume of oxygen that a body can consume during intense, whole-body exercise while breathing air at sea level.

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, ...

FOR ABOUT A 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 ...

Damn those thin mint Girl Scout cookies. No sooner had I taken what’s known as a VO2 Max test, learned that my physical fitness had slipped over the winter and resolved to get back into shape than ...

Over the years I’ve covered a number of NHL Draft Combines to the point where I no longer remember my first one. I’m sure it was epic. Before moving to Buffalo, the combine was held at the ...