What is your take on the Garmin Edge VO2 Max calculation? Is tracking the trend the most important metric? At 73 Garmin score is trending toward 46 with scores consistently 44, 45, and a few coming in at a 46.
My Garmin watch lies too.. puts me as excellent for my age… sssh I have a pedelec that can get my 19st frame up a hill but my heart rate I keep below 129… the beta blockers help too😂 seriously all these fitness watches do not account for assistance from e-bikes or the effects of heart meds.
Cool video. Thanks. I'm 70 run, cycle, open water swim, DIY pilates multiple times each week. Exercise or die is the motto. Learn to listen to your body to avoid injury.
Probably true for many who i see overweight and still stopping at cafes for cake etc ! Even so, it can be a great tool for health. Don't assume it's a free pass though, does not work like that, need a good diet too!
Don’t forget that the second predictor for longevity is strength and that is something too many cyclists don’t train enough. Lifting the heaviest weight you can in a safe and correct way is almost as important as training Vo2max
@@SuperDodoe Yeah, plus although grip strength is 'a biomarker in older adults' anyone who has an elderly grandparent or parent can ask them to squeeze your hand and then you'll feel just how weak they are. My dad could easily crush my hand 5 years ago aged 80 he was still strong. Today there's no strength there at all. It's not something that, say, skinny elite cyclists in the TdF need to worry about. Although it's a good idea for cyclists to do some weight bearing exercise that doesn't mean you need to lift heavy weights. Walking is weight bearing for your legs and there are obviously a ton of bodyweight exercises that are weight bearing.
@@michael1 @SuperDodoe Not sure I agree...the reason why grip strength is used as a biomarker is mostly because it's easy to measure. And you cannot really be strong without having strong hands and forearms considering that a lot of movement in weight lifting involve gripping onto a bar. Walking is by far not sufficient to keep strength in your legs and also lifting light and doing lots of repetition is not making you as strong as lifting heavy. "It's not dangerous to do a dead lift (when done well), what is dangerous is not being able to do one". Not sure anymore where I heard this quote, but it makes sense. It's all too easy to think that it's safe to lift light and just do lots of reps, but you just need to get the technique right. Especially for cyclist, who care so much about weight. You can be strong, but not put as much muscles on. With age you lose muscles and strength and this you cannot stop. But you can slow down the process and start with as much muscles and strength as you can (I'm not taking about about being a body builder here...). At some point you will inevitably not have enough muscles and strength to be self sufficient (or crush someone's hand). The point is to shift this event as late as possible in time.
I was searching for the umpteenth bikefitter that knows it al but after seeing so much of these films the more i get confused because most of them are coming with the same tips and telling you to get a better bike ( and lucky bastard that i ,am because they are selling those bikes ) than thinking this is the right way they are saying " but it can also be different for you 😢 , but this morning i saw this Scottish coach and my life changed in a happy mood full of understanding and more important a big smile on my face .......😂😂 What a character this man has !!!!!! I,am glad that i found you lad 😊 p.s excuse my English i,am from the Netherlands ( and that explains a lot 😊 i,am talking about the most soccer trainers and their way,s of speaking English 😂 we call it , steenkolen Engels
So true. You’ve got to put yourself in action. Today, tomorrow and the rest of your life. I had heart failure in 2021 with an EF of 25% ( healthy people are 55% and above ) but I was told the worst thing for your heart is inactivity and sitting around. After a cardioversion procedure I’m back to 55% but during this period I was out on my bike and I have to say I felt better through cycling . So if you can. Do it. Great channel this👍
Well actually…..to add to @zebraLemur, O2 is used by plants at night to “burn” (catalyze the reaction) nutrients but don’t really “feed” on it either. Semantics but accurate.
@@barteksadaj4579 Actually, plants use oxygen at night to grow using the sugars. During the day, plants create both oxygen and sugars (starches) and store the sugars.
This is the part where if it were the 70's (or even the early 2000's for that matter) you would articulate that you were uninformed or misinformed and apologize.
@@ticklefritz5406 this is the part where you acknowledge that because of evolution biology is a spectrum of rule exceptions. plants use much less oxygen than they produce.
I am a relatively new subscriber. This channel is quickly becoming one of my favorite cycling information sources. Concise, fact backed, highly motivational and a good bit of humor sprinkled throughout. Thank you...... sending love from America (Colorado)
Also sending love from Colorado. A great coach indeed, you make me ride when I don't feel like it. Sometimes I have to do a little rewind for a double take. " Did he just say that!?". Hillarious!
I’m 70 years old and I’m extremely skeptical that my VO2 max can possibly be higher in 10 years than it is today. However, I’m doing my best to keep improving and will keep working on my fitness as long as I can, but at my age the best goal is to degrade as slowly as possible.
Right, using Strava I plotted the performance with age on selected long hill, no matter what the performances go down, the steeper the hill the more the performance drop.
There are advances around reducing mitochondria gene transcription errors that look very promising. Being able to restore your ATP levels a couple of decades will make 80 the new 40. Hang in there.
We all like to get better, a fact. The coach tells the right thing to people who actually have strong cycling experience, every day. Then this is a reasonable recommendation. People who ride casually, you will be harmed by this recommendation. Don't think that you are strong. You can be strong outdo yourself once but that's all. IT'S ALL FROM THE HEART. HAVE FUN WITH THIS THING
"Oxygen is life. It's feeding that plant behind me..." Hmm. If I remember my grade 9 Biology correctly, Oxygen is a byproduct of photosynthesis, not an input. In fact the plant is converting your expelled CO2 to make O2! Nice content/encouragement though, thanks!
You have to give yourself the best chances and that means exercise and a healthy diet. My dad lived to 87 and he worked physically doing diy and gardening all his life but after his army days he never did HIT or anything beyond a zone 2 if that. My grandmother lived to 98 and never did high cardiovascular sport but she never smoked was very lean and only ate home cooked foods. She always kept active walking briskly to the local shops in her 80s.
After 50 it’s important too take up weight training if your not already. We after 50 start too loose muscle and so many by age 60-65 look absolutely Frail and Elderly from lack of muscle retention
I can increase your life span significantly. If you are over 65, buy an indoor trainer and start Zwifting. The roads and the poor condition of the roads not to mention the drivers and poor cyclists will take you down. I stopped riding outside at age 70. I’m now 73 and I haven’t kissed the ground in 3 years.
I stopped riding my bike on public streets when I turned 40...people are out of their minds and will hit you and just keep driving! I only ride on bike trails and then only on Sundays!
I ride side downtown streets in the evening and quiet neighborhoods on a single speed for strength, balance, and fitness in a controlled lower traffic environment.
There are always exceptions to the rule so don't let them make you wonder why that 59 year old slightly overweight heavy smoker can practically run up and down an alpine ski hill or that 40 year old overweight (300 lbs) guy can almost keep up with that smoker running lines through forests. But as I the former smoker started to find and found I can do even more by quitting 11 years ago, I was active before (undiagnosed ASD and ADHD) but wasn't burning as much as I was intaking. I started changing that in particular once I finialy retired dropping from a 38" waist to a 32" waist which was what I was as a teenager... Some bodies are just different even if abused - I dreamed of ski racing and being in the Tour de France as a teenager but my life went south; well I still skied after getting partially over vertigo after a 15 year break and the kids were into cycle racing and ski racing so dad went along.
I would suggest everyone to get heart ultrasound before trying to reach long life by hard training. Bad valve or other simple to find issue could cause major issues if you push against it. You will develop but will cause damage by enlarging your heart or other issues.
I had an ultrasound this year paid for it myself just for peace of mind. Don't wait for a doctor to refer you for the free test. Thankfully mine came up fine.
Darn it! But this is probably true, especially if you're aging and just getting off the couch. I've tweaked my heart from pushing too hard too often, it's about going the distance.
VO2 Max is such a difficult thing to grasp. Two 55 year old men can have the same VO2 Max scores, while one is carrying 22% body fat and cycles 60 miles a week and the other is 11% body fat and cycles 120 miles per week, just because of genetics! People can't just work their ass off perfectly for 10, 15, 20 years and expect to see VO2 Max scores topping 70, 80, 90. This is ONE component of health and longevity, not the be all end all.
A couple of initial response thoughts here. For helmets, the whole idea is to be out riding right? One way or another. Every day if at all possible. Short rides long rides, whatever. Ok so if not being a conehead helps to get us out there to get that mileage and exercise in, then that's the answer for those individuals right? Possibly collectively too for health and well being at a societal level when you consider helmet laws in the Australian states and the negative effects on cycling there since the early 1990s. As for The "VO2 max" business, lets assume many of us aren't into bike gadgets or computerizing our cycling, and yet those riders are still out there putting in the work climbing those hills, putting in the miles and time and are either very lean from it or getting leaner all the time, gained and maintained endurance, speed, heart and lung capacity, etc. Wouldn't we already be looking at respectable increases and very good numbers for that measure regardless of tests or equations?
Love the way you run out acronyms and expect people to understand them. I have heard the term VO2 Max but no one has explained what the alphas stand for. Mean time, having done several fitness tests in clinical conditions to determine heart health. Not once did I hear VO2 Max. I was kicked out in a couple because the parameters were too easy. The one where they really pushed me they said I could stop early if I needed to. I finished the exercise which had them impressed with my stamina and I was pissed because I just did 20 minutes on a tread mill with arthritic feet. So what does VO2 Max mean and stand for.
2:53 this poor plant only uses oxygen to feed on because it's always quite dark in Scotland and you have the blinds halfway down, so not enough photosynthesis. Be carefull, though, at night and in winter, your plant might eat up all the oxygen in the room ;-)
Coach- honest question, my lungs are fucked, they got fucked by a couple of years working in the desert and not protecting myself from breathing in a shitload of sand on a daily basis. My FEV1 is around 55-60% of its expected based om my lung capacity. Ive had proper tests at the hospital, if theres anything to take from that issus is ive had tests yearly for the last 8 years and my FEV1 has declined slowly at a normal for a 40 year old man. My question is about energy production, you explaimed abit the use of Fats as energy and if im not mistaken the lower use of oxygen when usinf fat as energy. But i cant seem to find the video. If you could do me the homour and point me in the right direction it would be really appreciated 👍💪
My Garmin watch lies too.. puts me as excellent for my age… sssh I have a pedelec that can get my 19st frame up a hill but my heart rate I keep below 129… the beta blockers help too😂 seriously all these fitness watches do not account for assistance from e-bikes or the effects of heart meds or offer you the chance to enter these into algorithms
Im think its not that straight forward. Statistics are incredibly complex. A person with a high V02 max could have a whole boat load of other variables involved. Clean living, spending time in the sun, exercise etc etc V02 max will probably increase if you do all those, and will be a marker for those. What it doesnt mean is you do a V02 max session twice per week. I would bet those who have a healthy social life have a higher V02 max.
All these experts posticulating over VO2 MAX, they could be right ? but these experts also came up with 220 minus age equals max heart rate as well, which is utter tosh. For instance I am very nearly 66, have a max heart rate of 186 by hill test, yet it is impossible according to them and at my age should be 154. I have actually been refused a job in the fire service because their doctor deemed my high max heart rate to be unhealthy and stopped the Chester step test early because of it. I have won open time trial events and at 61 was our club's evening series third fastest first claim member scratch and thus unequivocally demonstrated my heart health . So you can see, I never believe a so called expert now. Another example is the Covid jabs heart health harm, that came out after expert advice to the contrary, during the pandemic. By the way air contains 20.8 % oxygen and 78% nitrogen plus other trace elements. Oxygen may be nessessary to continue life but the consumption of oxygen releases free radicals, which over many years attacks your dna and ultimately it is this that causes your death in old age, with the inability of cells to replicate exactly. This is why we have children, because a single life form can't escape this inevitability. So oxygen is life but it is also death. If you want to live a long life, lower your oxygen consumption by being fit, as small a body as possible ( including muscle weight, within reason I.e. carrying excessive weight lifting muscles, shortens your life because it raises your metabolic rate and it all has to be fed with oxygen ) to lower your metabolic rate leading to a life long low resting pulse and with it a reduction in oxygen, less dna damage over time and a longer life. If you exercise maximally for an hour a day, your heart rate could be 170 bpm for that hour but for the other 23 hours, your resting heart rate could be 60 or much lower, depending on your fitness, which is a net reduction over an average 70 to 80 bpm for an unfit person, with a consequent net reduction in oxygen and longer lifespan. I have been racing for decades and so far at nearly 66, I have no comorbidities, take no prescription drugs, slim, fit as a fiddle and am watching others I know of my age cohort, who have a poor lifestyle, experience poor health. I would go as far as to say that they are aging biologically, at a much faster rate than me, bar none. By the way, plants take in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen ( mostly ). The body of a plant or tree is made up of the carbon obtained from the carbon dioxide entrained in the air.
Ok, you had me hooked in the first 15 seconds. But you kept on TALKING and I may not finish the video. I really don't need to know that plants produce oxygen. Just tell us how to increase our VO2!
Jees, I can't concentrate on what you're saying, with your hands & arms throwing around. As a teacher, we tell our students to expressively talk with speech, not hands & arm waving.
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What is your take on the Garmin Edge VO2 Max calculation? Is tracking the trend the most important metric? At 73 Garmin score is trending toward 46 with scores consistently 44, 45, and a few coming in at a 46.
My Garmin watch lies too.. puts me as excellent for my age… sssh I have a pedelec that can get my 19st frame up a hill but my heart rate I keep below 129… the beta blockers help too😂 seriously all these fitness watches do not account for assistance from e-bikes or the effects of heart meds.
Cool video. Thanks. I'm 70 run, cycle, open water swim, DIY pilates multiple times each week. Exercise or die is the motto. Learn to listen to your body to avoid injury.
Sorry to break it to you, there is no "or".
@@BlackMan614 😂
Your last sentence is key for me. My issue is obeying the messages that I'm receiving. You're a stud, much love!
We don’t cycle for our health. We cycle to escape. We cycle to find peace. We cycle to have fun!
@@timparry5277 still helps your health. Improves blood flow, boosts metabolism
Probably true for many who i see overweight and still stopping at cafes for cake etc ! Even so, it can be a great tool for health. Don't assume it's a free pass though, does not work like that, need a good diet too!
And finding exercise we enjoy is a KEY to good health. Just not the only one!
Many people cycle for all those reasons including health.
Speak for yourself, bud
With all the many fast cuts of your video and your accent it’s like a parody of the Trainspotting scene with spud applying for a job in leisure 😆
Don’t forget that the second predictor for longevity is strength and that is something too many cyclists don’t train enough. Lifting the heaviest weight you can in a safe and correct way is almost as important as training Vo2max
Definitely agree on strength training but it's safer to lift light and use the principle of time under tension to achieve hypertrophy instead
@@SuperDodoe Yeah, plus although grip strength is 'a biomarker in older adults' anyone who has an elderly grandparent or parent can ask them to squeeze your hand and then you'll feel just how weak they are. My dad could easily crush my hand 5 years ago aged 80 he was still strong. Today there's no strength there at all. It's not something that, say, skinny elite cyclists in the TdF need to worry about. Although it's a good idea for cyclists to do some weight bearing exercise that doesn't mean you need to lift heavy weights. Walking is weight bearing for your legs and there are obviously a ton of bodyweight exercises that are weight bearing.
@@michael1 @SuperDodoe Not sure I agree...the reason why grip strength is used as a biomarker is mostly because it's easy to measure. And you cannot really be strong without having strong hands and forearms considering that a lot of movement in weight lifting involve gripping onto a bar. Walking is by far not sufficient to keep strength in your legs and also lifting light and doing lots of repetition is not making you as strong as lifting heavy. "It's not dangerous to do a dead lift (when done well), what is dangerous is not being able to do one". Not sure anymore where I heard this quote, but it makes sense. It's all too easy to think that it's safe to lift light and just do lots of reps, but you just need to get the technique right. Especially for cyclist, who care so much about weight. You can be strong, but not put as much muscles on. With age you lose muscles and strength and this you cannot stop. But you can slow down the process and start with as much muscles and strength as you can (I'm not taking about about being a body builder here...). At some point you will inevitably not have enough muscles and strength to be self sufficient (or crush someone's hand). The point is to shift this event as late as possible in time.
Home made Pilates. Stop going to gym during Covid. My DIY pilates seems to be better. Set an alarm on my Garmin pilates for 60 second.
I was searching for the umpteenth bikefitter that knows it al but after seeing so much of these films the more i get confused because most of them are coming with the same tips and telling you to get a better bike ( and lucky bastard that i ,am because they are selling those bikes ) than thinking this is the right way they are saying " but it can also be different for you 😢 , but this morning i saw this Scottish coach and my life changed in a happy mood full of understanding and more important a big smile on my face .......😂😂 What a character this man has !!!!!! I,am glad that i found you lad 😊 p.s excuse my English i,am from the Netherlands ( and that explains a lot 😊 i,am talking about the most soccer trainers and their way,s of speaking English 😂 we call it , steenkolen Engels
So true. You’ve got to put yourself in action. Today, tomorrow and the rest of your life. I had heart failure in 2021 with an EF of 25% ( healthy people are 55% and above ) but I was told the worst thing for your heart is inactivity and sitting around. After a cardioversion procedure I’m back to 55% but during this period I was out on my bike and I have to say I felt better through cycling . So if you can. Do it. Great channel this👍
I'm still cycling at 76 years old.
I'm rooting for ya brother!
78 here. Stopped cycling at 15, restarted at 72! First rides were tough...
Im 64 nearly and I still do fast chain gangs. Sometimes averaging 27mph for 30 minutes
I just love the straight forward talk. No BS. Keep it up.
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Brilliant !!! My Grandfather was born in Glasgow. My South African , Afrikaans born father never understood a word he said 😂😂😂
Hitting 92 next week and biking since before bikes...and feeling strong...😮
Oxygen does not feed the plants. It is carbon dioxide that does it.
plants actually use oxygen at night when they burn the sugars created during the day
Well actually…..to add to @zebraLemur, O2 is used by plants at night to “burn” (catalyze the reaction) nutrients but don’t really “feed” on it either. Semantics but accurate.
@@barteksadaj4579 Actually, plants use oxygen at night to grow using the sugars. During the day, plants create both oxygen and sugars (starches) and store the sugars.
This is the part where if it were the 70's (or even the early 2000's for that matter) you would articulate that you were uninformed or misinformed and apologize.
@@ticklefritz5406 this is the part where you acknowledge that because of evolution biology is a spectrum of rule exceptions. plants use much less oxygen than they produce.
I am a relatively new subscriber.
This channel is quickly becoming one of my favorite cycling information sources.
Concise, fact backed, highly motivational and a good bit of humor sprinkled throughout.
Thank you...... sending love from America (Colorado)
Also sending love from Colorado. A great coach indeed, you make me ride when I don't feel like it. Sometimes I have to do a little rewind for a double take. " Did he just say that!?". Hillarious!
I was the most fit person in tbe CICU. Damn the Widow Maker, full speed ahead!! Surviving, thriving, making steady progress back to my Bike.
My watch tells me I’m in the top 1% for my age and as fit as someone less than half my age - I’m not risking finding out I’ve been lied to 😂
To be fair my Garmin watch wasn’t far out, my VO2 max was a couple of points lower on the coach’s test than on my Garmin but I’m still in the 1% club.
My watch tells me the time
@@DDai-qd8uk is it accurate
@@JIMMYHIBBS1 what is your V02 score on Garmin?
Garmin under estimated mine, but not by much.
As soon as you dropped the "F-BOMB" I subscribed !
Very motivational, thanks.
Signed: A red-headed woman from Scotland.
Excellent...been trying to define vo2max for myself and learn to make it stronger. ty
Great explanation for VO2 Max. Gotta work on mine.
Up here in Finland, my uncle skied 3000-4000 km every winter until the of 95.
I’m 70 years old and I’m extremely skeptical that my VO2 max can possibly be higher in 10 years than it is today. However, I’m doing my best to keep improving and will keep working on my fitness as long as I can, but at my age the best goal is to degrade as slowly as possible.
Right, using Strava I plotted the performance with age on selected long hill, no matter what the performances go down, the steeper the hill the more the performance drop.
There are advances around reducing mitochondria gene transcription errors that look very promising. Being able to restore your ATP levels a couple of decades will make 80 the new 40. Hang in there.
Great channel, I love your accent. And the funny part (as a German guy) I can fully understand you ! 😉
We all like to get better, a fact. The coach tells the right thing to people who actually have strong cycling experience, every day. Then this is a reasonable recommendation. People who ride casually, you will be harmed by this recommendation. Don't think that you are strong. You can be strong outdo yourself once but that's all. IT'S ALL FROM THE HEART. HAVE FUN WITH THIS THING
You’ve got me!! i’m subscribing 😂😂😂
Got diagnosed w COPD at 65, drugs & cycling from here on out.
"Start where you are, use what you have, and do what you can." Arthur Ashe.
correlation =/= Causation. Being unhealthy makes VO2max low.
Yep. Who ever knew that regular exercise and a healthy diet would improve your mortality?
Your accent gave me at least one extra day for life alone.
Why is everybody obsessed with the physiological benefits of cycling when the mental benefits are just as important?
"Oxygen is life. It's feeding that plant behind me..."
Hmm. If I remember my grade 9 Biology correctly, Oxygen is a byproduct of photosynthesis, not an input. In fact the plant is converting your expelled CO2 to make O2!
Nice content/encouragement though, thanks!
After a bit more reading, seems like grade 9 biology was an oversimplified model! Plants do still require oxygen for cellular respiration. TIL.
Actually, he's breathing oxygen, expelling CO2, which the plant then absorbs, but only because oxygen is life. 😁
You have to give yourself the best chances and that means exercise and a healthy diet. My dad lived to 87 and he worked physically doing diy and gardening all his life but after his army days he never did HIT or anything beyond a zone 2 if that. My grandmother lived to 98 and never did high cardiovascular sport but she never smoked was very lean and only ate home cooked foods. She always kept active walking briskly to the local shops in her 80s.
I never expected to get my fitness advice from a guy who looks like Spud and talks like Begbie, but here we are....
@@carparkdave4492 that’s a silly appearance-based slap all too common on the internet, made from the comfort of the anonymity of one side of a screen
I thought this would get a ❤remark from the good coach. Come on, we're just funnin around here...
Haha love the video coach keep up the hard work.!!
Thank you
Your videos are fukin awesome
Love this.
Strength not just Vo2max is what keeps us living longer . Cycling alone wont keep u living longer .
Yep. The road racer ideal isn't the ideal body shape for longevity either, with their under muscled upper body.
I'm sorry coach. I won't do it again. 😔
Thanks for the shake up.🤣
Okay. I was interested by the title, intrigued by the accent (I’m in U.S.), and staying for the evidence-based approach.
After 50 it’s important too take up weight training if your not already. We after 50 start too loose muscle and so many by age 60-65 look absolutely Frail and Elderly from lack of muscle retention
Great episode coach, love these videos with the edits... joining the group soon
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Go outside FFS
You sound like my first Bagpipes teacher
lol, you have a comment warning pop up but you curse up a storm! Hay! I love the shirt and logo!
I can increase your life span significantly. If you are over 65, buy an indoor trainer and start Zwifting. The roads and the poor condition of the roads not to mention the drivers and poor cyclists will take you down. I stopped riding outside at age 70. I’m now 73 and I haven’t kissed the ground in 3 years.
I stopped riding my bike on public streets when I turned 40...people are out of their minds and will hit you and just keep driving! I only ride on bike trails and then only on Sundays!
I ride side downtown streets in the evening and quiet neighborhoods on a single speed for strength, balance, and fitness in a controlled lower traffic environment.
Keep effort below anaerobic threshold. How? Pedal fast. Control the pain. This trains the slow twitch muscles, and VO2 max will go higher.
Basically I need to cycle more and faster.
There are always exceptions to the rule so don't let them make you wonder why that 59 year old slightly overweight heavy smoker can practically run up and down an alpine ski hill or that 40 year old overweight (300 lbs) guy can almost keep up with that smoker running lines through forests. But as I the former smoker started to find and found I can do even more by quitting 11 years ago, I was active before (undiagnosed ASD and ADHD) but wasn't burning as much as I was intaking. I started changing that in particular once I finialy retired dropping from a 38" waist to a 32" waist which was what I was as a teenager... Some bodies are just different even if abused - I dreamed of ski racing and being in the Tour de France as a teenager but my life went south; well I still skied after getting partially over vertigo after a 15 year break and the kids were into cycle racing and ski racing so dad went along.
I would suggest everyone to get heart ultrasound before trying to reach long life by hard training. Bad valve or other simple to find issue could cause major issues if you push against it. You will develop but will cause damage by enlarging your heart or other issues.
I had an ultrasound this year paid for it myself just for peace of mind. Don't wait for a doctor to refer you for the free test. Thankfully mine came up fine.
@@glennoc8585 Free?
Darn it! But this is probably true, especially if you're aging and just getting off the couch. I've tweaked my heart from pushing too hard too often, it's about going the distance.
@@JamesParus ultrasound=echocardiogram?
@@stevemurray710 yes. You get also the sizes of ventricle and wall thickness for future comparison
I found myself apologising every 5 seconds when watching this
VO2 Max is such a difficult thing to grasp. Two 55 year old men can have the same VO2 Max scores, while one is carrying 22% body fat and cycles 60 miles a week and the other is 11% body fat and cycles 120 miles per week, just because of genetics! People can't just work their ass off perfectly for 10, 15, 20 years and expect to see VO2 Max scores topping 70, 80, 90. This is ONE component of health and longevity, not the be all end all.
There have been studies out of UK mostly that associate higher levels of training with heart arrhythmia. Too much of a good thing may not be good.
Any tips for those of us who did marry a woman from Scotland? 😅
eat cheese and lots of it!
How to improve VO2 Max - come and cycle round the Pennines, 25+ miles three or four times a week, simples 🙂
75% till nearly toast....
A couple of initial response thoughts here. For helmets, the whole idea is to be out riding right? One way or another. Every day if at all possible. Short rides long rides, whatever. Ok so if not being a conehead helps to get us out there to get that mileage and exercise in, then that's the answer for those individuals right? Possibly collectively too for health and well being at a societal level when you consider helmet laws in the Australian states and the negative effects on cycling there since the early 1990s. As for The "VO2 max" business, lets assume many of us aren't into bike gadgets or computerizing our cycling, and yet those riders are still out there putting in the work climbing those hills, putting in the miles and time and are either very lean from it or getting leaner all the time, gained and maintained endurance, speed, heart and lung capacity, etc. Wouldn't we already be looking at respectable increases and very good numbers for that measure regardless of tests or equations?
Love the way you run out acronyms and expect people to understand them. I have heard the term VO2 Max but no one has explained what the alphas stand for. Mean time, having done several fitness tests in clinical conditions to determine heart health. Not once did I hear VO2 Max. I was kicked out in a couple because the parameters were too easy. The one where they really pushed me they said I could stop early if I needed to. I finished the exercise which had them impressed with my stamina and I was pissed because I just did 20 minutes on a tread mill with arthritic feet.
So what does VO2 Max mean and stand for.
2:53 this poor plant only uses oxygen to feed on because it's always quite dark in Scotland and you have the blinds halfway down, so not enough photosynthesis. Be carefull, though, at night and in winter, your plant might eat up all the oxygen in the room ;-)
I married a woman from Scotland, but she is blonde 😅
You are facing hilarious. Stand up comedy meets good coaching. Love it.
When someone uses Intervals to train are they training the parasympathetic nervous system? the ability to recover automatically kinda thing?
Are you taking on new cyclists for coaching?
Can you include an English translation?
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Elite athletes should have the longest lifespans. Biomechanics aberrates the VO2 results.
Ouch 😣 your plant consumes CO2 and exhales O2 😮
Coach- honest question, my lungs are fucked, they got fucked by a couple of years working in the desert and not protecting myself from breathing in a shitload of sand on a daily basis. My FEV1 is around 55-60% of its expected based om my lung capacity. Ive had proper tests at the hospital, if theres anything to take from that issus is ive had tests yearly for the last 8 years and my FEV1 has declined slowly at a normal for a 40 year old man.
My question is about energy production, you explaimed abit the use of Fats as energy and if im not mistaken the lower use of oxygen when usinf fat as energy. But i cant seem to find the video. If you could do me the homour and point me in the right direction it would be really appreciated 👍💪
Yep, doing that risk assessment can add years to your life and bank bank balance, no matter what her nationality.😁
It is not feeding that plant behind you... the plant is feeding oxygen to you.
3:00 It's actually not. That plant is releasing oxygen.
You can die with a few seconds of leaving home……😂
My Garmin watch lies too.. puts me as excellent for my age… sssh I have a pedelec that can get my 19st frame up a hill but my heart rate I keep below 129… the beta blockers help too😂 seriously all these fitness watches do not account for assistance from e-bikes or the effects of heart meds or offer you the chance to enter these into algorithms
35% vo2😊
Plants take in CO2 and produce oxygen.
did your channel change name? it costs me some time to find your channel from the watching history.
One does not say f... in front of a camera...
Interesting... but the real question is, how do unreasonably fast descents affect longevity?
jk. thank you for your content. I enjoy it very much.
@@orwellklimt9947 eh….. because your chances of crashing increases with possible fatal consequences.
Sir, Oxygen is life to animals, but it's not to that plant behind you, CO2 is life to plant life
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They’re plastic
Co2 is carbon bonded to two oxygen molecules so technically….
He coach, what about a good plate of haggis to recover ? 😂
"All intensities matter". Try saying that about 'lives'. Go on, I dare you.
You talk funny
None of these smart items are infallible . Some are downright useless.
Im think its not that straight forward. Statistics are incredibly complex. A person with a high V02 max could have a whole boat load of other variables involved. Clean living, spending time in the sun, exercise etc etc V02 max will probably increase if you do all those, and will be a marker for those. What it doesnt mean is you do a V02 max session twice per week.
I would bet those who have a healthy social life have a higher V02 max.
All these experts posticulating over VO2 MAX, they could be right ? but these experts also came up with 220 minus age equals max heart rate as well, which is utter tosh. For instance I am very nearly 66, have a max heart rate of 186 by hill test, yet it is impossible according to them and at my age should be 154. I have actually been refused a job in the fire service because their doctor deemed my high max heart rate to be unhealthy and stopped the Chester step test early because of it. I have won open time trial events and at 61 was our club's evening series third fastest first claim member scratch and thus unequivocally demonstrated my heart health . So you can see, I never believe a so called expert now. Another example is the Covid jabs heart health harm, that came out after expert advice to the contrary, during the pandemic. By the way air contains 20.8 % oxygen and 78% nitrogen plus other trace elements. Oxygen may be nessessary to continue life but the consumption of oxygen releases free radicals, which over many years attacks your dna and ultimately it is this that causes your death in old age, with the inability of cells to replicate exactly. This is why we have children, because a single life form can't escape this inevitability. So oxygen is life but it is also death. If you want to live a long life, lower your oxygen consumption by being fit, as small a body as possible ( including muscle weight, within reason I.e. carrying excessive weight lifting muscles, shortens your life because it raises your metabolic rate and it all has to be fed with oxygen ) to lower your metabolic rate leading to a life long low resting pulse and with it a reduction in oxygen, less dna damage over time and a longer life. If you exercise maximally for an hour a day, your heart rate could be 170 bpm for that hour but for the other 23 hours, your resting heart rate could be 60 or much lower, depending on your fitness, which is a net reduction over an average 70 to 80 bpm for an unfit person, with a consequent net reduction in oxygen and longer lifespan.
I have been racing for decades and so far at nearly 66, I have no comorbidities, take no prescription drugs, slim, fit as a fiddle and am watching others I know of my age cohort, who have a poor lifestyle, experience poor health. I would go as far as to say that they are aging biologically, at a much faster rate than me, bar none.
By the way, plants take in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen ( mostly ). The body of a plant or tree is made up of the carbon obtained from the carbon dioxide entrained in the air.
Every day ? 😢
My fat doctor demonstrated to me how to measure VO2 max and died unfortunately. Just joking :)
Ok, you had me hooked in the first 15 seconds. But you kept on TALKING and I may not finish the video. I really don't need to know that plants produce oxygen. Just tell us how to increase our VO2!
Gee, you must be a real blast at a party.
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Everything is for nerds these days.
Jees, I can't concentrate on what you're saying, with your hands & arms throwing around.
As a teacher, we tell our students to expressively talk with speech, not hands & arm waving.