If you were driving in your car and you pushed your foot down on the accelerator as far as possible, your car’s engine could only process so much fuel and oxygen at any given time, REGARDLESS of how hard you pushed down on the accelerator pedal. Here’s an analogy to understand Vo2Max a little better. For us mere mortals, we achieve the same end result by watching our beep test or bleep test scores climb over a period of time. Unless you’re an elite athlete and are tracking your Vo2max to test and measure the effectiveness of your training efforts, it’s probably pretty useless information. So, at some point, no matter how hard you try, your body can only process so much oxygen and therefore produce so much movement, speed, power, strength etc. Vo2 Max is a reading or score which indicates how much (volume) oxygen ones body can process at any given time while exercising at (maximum) cardiovascular intensity. I thought I would very quickly explain the term Vo2max in a simple way to give you a better understanding of what it is and how it is relevant to the Beep Test or Bleep Test. The Beep Test and the term Vo2Max are often mentioned in the same breath.
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