Anyone an expert on VO2 max stuff?
I've been playing around with the various VO2 max calculators on the internet, and one thing that I don't understand is why none of them ask for your weight, when the end result is a number that's given in ml/kg/min. For instance, the calculator that uses your race times to determine VO2 max only asks for the distance, time it took to cover that distance, sex, and age. How, then, can it spit out a number that has mass as part of the unit when I haven't provided that?
I understand that there's an absolute VO2 max, which is measured in l/min, and then there's a relative VO2 max, which is supposed to take mass into account. It seems to me that this calculator should be giving me a result in l/min, rather than ml/kg/min. What am I missing?
I've been playing around with the various VO2 max calculators on the internet, and one thing that I don't understand is why none of them ask for your weight, when the end result is a number that's given in ml/kg/min. For instance, the calculator that uses your race times to determine VO2 max only asks for the distance, time it took to cover that distance, sex, and age. How, then, can it spit out a number that has mass as part of the unit when I haven't provided that?
I understand that there's an absolute VO2 max, which is measured in l/min, and then there's a relative VO2 max, which is supposed to take mass into account. It seems to me that this calculator should be giving me a result in l/min, rather than ml/kg/min. What am I missing?
