Well! I've just looked at my VO2 doodah. I've never looked at it before and I don't really get how it works, but it tells me that I have the fitness age of a 34 year old and I'm 50! Love it! 😂👏😀
That's cheered me right up! : Well! I've just... - Bridge to 10K
That's cheered me right up!
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It makes you smile, doesn’t it it 😊. Mine is just too ludicrous I can’t take it seriously 😂
What is it? We Must take them seriously! It's science at its best 🤣
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The rule is that you take it as serious science when your fitness age goes down and disregard it as inaccurate when your fitness age goes up.
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Mine’s depressing me, it hasn’t changed for the 6 months I’ve been running, then all of a sudden the other day it changed so I’m older 😩 it was 36, now it’s 40. I’m currently 34 😭
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Wow that’s fantastic, I was almost blue once but mid green is better than orange
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This VO2Max business has had me stumped for a while. It seemed the harder I ran, the older I became which was rather discouraging.
Last Saturday I decided to take my long run a bit easier: at a steady pace rather than off like a bat out of hell and coming back like a semi destroyed insect.
It took 2hrs 06 rather than the usual 2hrs 02. No big deal but I remained in Zones 2 and 3 for 90% of the time rather than 3 and 4 with a couple of minutes of 5 which I normally do.
Result: I was much fresher for the rest of the day and knocked a year off my fitness age. 😀
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As a broad brush simplification, if you are able to run fast at a low heart rate, the watch will award a good number. So if you do a fast 15 minute run, it will rate it better than a slower two hour run, even though it might require greater overall fitness to complete the longer run.
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It's nice to see the VO2 improving - and you are getting younger, hahaha.But of course a watch in your wrist cannot really measure VO2. You need to be in a lab on a treadmill for that.
But it does give some indication fitness levels over time.
I wish I was the age my Garmin says.