On TikTok, VO2 max is going viral as the key to improving your endurance during a workout. In short, you can think of this metric as the maximum amount of oxygen your body uses during exercise – V ...

Ascension St. John’s Human Performance Lab helps people measure heart health and build fitness plans for the year ahead.

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 ...

Maybe your smartwatch has been telling you your VO2 max for a while now, but you’re not sure how accurate it is. Or maybe you’ve recently been targeted by social media ads for fancy running labs ...

Running to the best of your ability can feel like a numbers game. To hit new PBs, you’re probably under the impression that you should keep tabs on all kinds of stats, like distance covered, pace per ...

If you think of ways to measure your overall health, certain benchmarks likely come to mind. The bloodwork you get done at your annual physical, maybe. Your body mass index. Perhaps how much you can ...

This is a transformational way of assessing VO2 max, which previously could only be assessed through a 3-minute step or a cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET). This enhances accessibility, especially ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- EHE Health, a national preventive healthcare provider, is introducing a first-of-its-kind VO2 max testing innovation to the United States to help patients better ...