"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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The burn. The Bane mask. The bleak possibility of being waterboarded by vomit. Whether you’ve wheezed through one first-hand, or cocked a cautious eyebrow from afar, more and more men are learning of ...

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 ...

My summer of running workouts has been, in a word, comfortable. I haven't had any real interest in doing virtual races created by this pandemic. My last virtual competitions were Pella's Klompen ...

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 ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. A group of scientists is exploring the molecular basis of fitness, and may be able to develop a simple ...

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 ...