Fitness age

Ketoohs

Is there a metric behind Fitness age that will be somehow optimized? It’s flattering but no way am I 20 years old (times 2 plus 4 ).

isazi

@Ketoohs it seems you have better VO2max than the average of your age group.

DMytro

@Ketoohs for how long do you have the watch? It could be that v02max which is responsible for the fitness age estimate has not settled down yet.

Ketoohs

@DMytro I have the 9P from January 2022 so more than a year.

My Vo2Max from watch is 54.8

DMytro

@Ketoohs then you’re quite fit!

zhang965

Well, for me the fitness age is the … don’t-sport-people-age.

I’d want that Suunto uses the sport-people-age.

wakarimasen

I’m 32 apparently, and was 29 last week. Having been born in 1969, I’m starting to doubt the stats…

kamarasm

Exactly on this week I started to thinking on the same.
As I know fitness age calculation is based on VO2Max, I looked at a table, what is common for a guy aged like me.
https://mk0runbuzzcomvbj42mg.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Bruce-Protocol-VO2-Max-Norms-for-Men-.png
So, I got the consequences, if I have better VO2Max then average, I was younger then my real age. Simplified

taziden

If you need a watch to tell you your age, well…

isazi

@kamarasm that’s exactly how it works, and Suunto licences this from Firstbeat. And yes, it’s for the general population, not athletes.

wakarimasen

@kamarasm Nice description!

wakarimasen

@taziden I’ve never acted my age, so it’s good to know my VO2 follows the same path

Tomas5

This kind of measurements are great in promotion materials, but thats all what it is good for

I hade for some time fitness age 20 than it jumped to 30 now it doesn’t show anything.

Jacobus

@Ketoohs I am 56 and my fitness age is also 20, think Suunto joke to boost your confidence

A Former User

@Jacobus Other brands are doing the same. From running speed to VO2Max is (simplified) a lookup table. From VO2Max to average VO2Max for a particular age is also an easy lookup.

If you are born with a natural higher VO2Max than average, your “fitness age” will always be low.

jthomi

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jthomi

Got my S9PP end of 2022 and after using it in Jan/Feb my Fitness age was around 26.

Now I had to pause for various reasons, just walking the dog, but no cycling or runs. Now starting all over again, my fitness age is at 47. Slowly approaching my actual age, but sure, I hope it drops again. Since I ride a whole lot more than I run, it would be nice if rides would be used for the calculation of fitness age, too. Or is that not possible?

A Former User

@jthomi it possible to estimate that too. If you have a power meter, you can estimate VO2Max based on your power output… e.g. https://www.michael-konczer.com/en/training/calculators/calculate-vo2max

With the found VO2Max you can lookup your “fitness age” in a table like https://runninforsweets.com/vo2-max-chart/

If you don’t have a power meter on your bike, you can try to estimate your power output with http://bikecalculator.com/

It is really an estimation, but I guess this is more or less how Garmin does it. Suunto doesn’t (yet). The number you get will be even more inaccurate then for running… it is only an estimation.

Panagiotis Kritikakos

@Ketoohs This thread has some good info regarding this https://forum.suunto.com/topic/8144/9-peak-fitness-age-increasing

wakarimasen

@Panagiotis-Kritikakos said in Fitness age:

https://forum.suunto.com/topic/8144/9-peak-fitness-age-increasing

It seems that I’m 29 again