What is your fitness age?
07-06-22, 06:10 PM
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With a handicap of one point for every year above 60, maybe doable.
Hashtag Attainable Goals.
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So, to geek out on this a bit more, as we age and HR asymptotes ever earlier on the power curve, our "VO2max," as estimated for power/HR, could actually increase, at least relatively, right? My power/HR numbers are always higher on hard workouts and it ain't because of my God-given ability in Z5.
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So, to geek out on this a bit more, as we age and HR asymptotes ever earlier on the power curve, our "VO2max," as estimated for power/HR, could actually increase, at least relatively, right? My power/HR numbers are always higher on hard workouts and it ain't because of my God-given ability in Z5.
Since the Firstbeat algorithm uses power vs heart rate to estimate VO2max, and we become more energy efficient as we age, we ought to see an upward drift in estimated VO2max.
Is it a real gain? Dunno, but at this age, lets take every win we can.
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Hey, any time something tells me I'm as fit as a 57 year old (I'm 70 with a bad knee and two previous heart attacks) I'm happy!
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My 30 year old Ironman bathroom scale sometimes says I'm really 30 and sometimes says I'm really 55! I dunno what's wrong, I told it I'm 69!
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Update: It has been three weeks of daily riding, but my "fitness age" is stuck at 20.
I guess my dream of becoming a teenager again appear to be just a dream.
But at least the VO2max number keeps climbing, gradually.
I guess my dream of becoming a teenager again appear to be just a dream.
But at least the VO2max number keeps climbing, gradually.
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My Garmin 530 tells me a lot of things. Sometimes those metrics seem a little out of whack. Regardless, I do consider my fitness level to be in the top 5-10% of the general population. With all the fat, obese and generally out of shape people out there, being in that 5-10% isn't all that spectacular.
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What a surprise - we all are in the top 10% and are 20 year olds. Don’t know if I want a do-over as a 20 year old. Don’t have a power meter on the Bianchi but this was taken off of a Zwift session and riding the trainer bike on Wahoo. Could be better or worse currently.
My goal is to get the fastest time for my age group for every local Strava segment. I am slowly ticking them off one by one but there is one superhuman that I can’t beat on 2+ mile segments because he was too darned fast. Don’t know what age the guy was at in the 65-70 segment, but most of his achievements were in 2015, so now he is in the next bracket.
My goal is to get the fastest time for my age group for every local Strava segment. I am slowly ticking them off one by one but there is one superhuman that I can’t beat on 2+ mile segments because he was too darned fast. Don’t know what age the guy was at in the 65-70 segment, but most of his achievements were in 2015, so now he is in the next bracket.
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