How is knowing my VO2 max helpful?

minizebu

I'm still trying to wrap my head around some things that I have read this morning. I have not had enough coffee yet.

Can someone explain in layman's terms how to translate back and forth between estimated VO2 max and actual heart rate at a given point in the midst of exercise?

I am trying to understand excess post-exercise oxygen consumption in reference to various exercise intensities reported as percentages of VO2 max and then compare this to estimates of my own exercise intensity and estimated VO2.

I am feeling a little slow on the uptake this morning.

Mr_Knight

Are you trying to translate between % of V02max and % of max heart rate? If so...

%MHR = 0.6463 x %VO2max + 37.182

http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/heart-rate-and-percent-vo2max-conversion-calculator.aspx

As always, this is an aggregated/averaged result.

minizebu

Thank you.

Duh!

(I did not even search around the same site at which I had found the VO2 max estimation calculator. I really have not had enough coffee this morning.)