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Garmin vs. Lab Tests
- Rebecca Moore and her colleagues at Eastern Michigan, led by grad student Andrew Pearson, used a treadmill test and a Garmin Forerunner 235 (the one with the wrist sensor) to measure VO2 max in 23 volunteers.
- In this case, the average VO2 max in the lab was 52.4 ml/kg/min, compared to 49.3 ml/kg/min with the watch—so the watch with the wrist sensor underestimated the lab value, which is the opposite of what the Southern Illinois study found.
- The watch consistently underestimated VO2 max, particularly for those with higher values (above 50, a value generally found in sub-20:00 5K runners).
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Garmin vs. Polar vs. Lab Tests
- The most comprehensive study came from Bryan Smith and his colleagues at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
- They estimated VO2 max for 23 women and 26 men using the
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Conclusion
- The best accurate test to measure your VO2 Max is still the lab test.
- However, that's only necessary for elite athletes who want to improve their sports performance.
- For general users who want to monitor general health and well-being, GPS watches that have the ability to mea...
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Polar vs. Lab Tests
- Finally, Kent Johnson and Jenny Beadle of Lipscomb University compared the values produced by Polar’s FT60 Fitness Test (the one based on heart-rate variability while lying down) with lab values in 31 subjects.
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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...
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Chest Strap vs. Wrist Sensor
- Another analysis from the same group took a deeper head-to-head look at the data from the two Garmin systems.
- Chest straps are considered highly accurate, and the wrist sensors produced heart rate ...
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What is VO2 Max?
- VO2 max is basically the definitive measurement of aerobic fitness.
- It tells you the maximum rate at which you can take oxygen from the air and deliver through it through the lungs into the bloodstream for use by your working muscl...
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Garmin vs. Polar vs. Lab Tests (cont.)
- The Polar measurements appear to be less accurate—not surprisingly, given that they’re estimating a characteristic of maximal exercise while at rest.
- But the deviation seems to be completely different in men and women.
- It’s hard to know whether this is an artifact of the pa...
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