Thread: Fitness Age and VO2max Estimator
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Old 03-13-24, 12:09 PM
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Originally Posted by RChung
For men, their prediction equation was: VO2Max = 100.27 - (0.296*age) - (0.369*WC) - (0.155*RHR) + (0.226*Physical activity index)
For women it was: VO2Max = 74.74 - (0.247*age) - (0.259*WC) - (0.114*RHR) + (0.198*Physical activity index)
So if you want a high VO2max:
  • be young
  • have a tiny waist
  • have a low resting heart rate
  • exercise a bunch
Sensible.

Curious that all the factors are linear. Is that just because non-linear data fitting is too complicated?
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