How to Increase Your VO2 Max
- Increasing your body's capacity to utilize oxygen is one surefire way to get you closer to your endurance-related goals — a higher VO2 max essentially extends your breaking point.
- High-intensity interval training is one of the best ways to improve your VO2 max. It works because you train your body to work at incredibly high levels for a period of time just long enough to push or surpass your anaerobic threshold before returning to a steadier, aerobic state.
- In a theoretical sense, any exercise that pushes your limits can increase your VO2 max.
12
57 reads
CURATED FROM
IDEAS CURATED BY
Lawyer turned Artist Visionary Curator & Gallerist. Empowering self-love and joy through art & words. www.innerjoyart.com 💝 Instagram : dymphna.art
The idea is part of this collection:
Learn more about health with this collection
How to choose the right music for different tasks
The benefits of listening to music while working
How music affects productivity
Related collections
Similar ideas to How to Increase Your VO2 Max
What is VO2 Max and What It Is Not?
- VO2 max refers to the maximum amount of oxygen you can utilize during exercise.
- It's commonly used to test the aerobic endurance or cardiovascular fitness of athletes before and at the end of a training cycle.
- VO2 max is measured in milli...
How to Increase Your VO2 Max (cont.)
VO2 max is like a muscle of its own. If you run at the same easy pace for the same amount of time every day, you won't get faster or better at running.
Instead, try adding intervals to your run. For example:
- Run fast for one minute
- Jog slowly f...
How to Measure Your VO2 Max?
- The best is to directly measure oxygen consumed while u exercise to exhaustion; eg. based on the distance during a 12-minute run.
- There are also “sub-maximal” exercise protocols that estimate VO2 max based on your heart rate & pa...
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates