Vo2 levels

ldxmsg

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos Thanks. Yes, as far as I can tell everything is the same. The new S9B does sometimes give overly heart rate readings at the start of exercise and then settles to what I would expect after a few minutes. Might that explain the discrepancy?

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@ldxmsg of course. Vo2max can be defined better at max capacity.

I would:

Do a full reset of the watch (as the watch bases the vo2max on the 6 last sessions as well)
Set up the zones like my Garmin
Use a belt and garmin with OHR

check the value after 1-2 good workouts.

ldxmsg

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos Will give it a go. Many thanks.

lexterm77

@brunoh

Running at same pace for 15 minutes so that at the end you feel nearly exhausted.

sartoric

@lexterm77 said in Vo2 levels:

@brunoh

so that at the end you feel nearly exhausted.

Or you have heart attack

BrunoH

@sartoric That’s what I’m afraid of. I’ll never look at my VO2max levels again, just to be sure!

lexterm77

@sartoric said in Vo2 levels:

@lexterm77 said in Vo2 levels:

@brunoh

so that at the end you feel nearly exhausted.

Or you have heart attack

If you do it often, body adapts to it. (Not the heart attack)

Brad_Olwin

An independent test for VO2 max that is fairly good. For me, this test and the S9 baro give very similar results. Cooper test. It is best done on a track.

stromdiddily

@brad_olwin ah yes, the “cooper”

Reminder of the glory days of yesteryear, and fitness testing…stuff of nightmares

lexterm77

@stromdiddily said in Vo2 levels:

@brad_olwin ah yes, the “cooper”

Reminder of the glory days of yesteryear, and fitness testing…stuff of nightmares

Go to a sports lab and ask them to extrapolate data with half the maximum effort

Edit: bring helmet with you

Bulkan

The Garmin only takes in count the running (not trail running, hiking…) and cycling and ONLY with heart rate strap if I recall well.

That’s different of the Suunto.

isazi

@bulkan said in Vo2 levels:

The Garmin only takes in count the running (not trail running, hiking…) and cycling and ONLY with heart rate strap if I recall well.

Running with HR (no belt necessary for what I remember), cycling with a power meter. And they end up in two separate VO2Max values, one for running and one for cycling.