In terms of differences, if you think about VO2 max as the size of your engine, lactate threshold is the size of the gears in ...

On TikTok, VO2 max is going viral as the key to improving your endurance during a workout. In short, you can think of this metric as the maximum amount of oxygen your body uses during exercise – V ...

Maybe your smartwatch has been telling you your VO2 max for a while now, but you’re not sure how accurate it is. Or maybe you’ve recently been targeted by social media ads for fancy running labs ...

Unfortunately, VO2 max decreases a lot faster when you stop straining than it increases with training. “Early on, you can see about a 5-ish percent drop within a couple weeks,” Sprouse says. So if you ...

If you think of ways to measure your overall health, certain benchmarks likely come to mind. The bloodwork you get done at your annual physical, maybe. Your body mass index. Perhaps how much you can ...

Both metrics are important – but one of them is better at determining your running performance over long distances ...

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 ...