I had my first VO2 Max test yesterday and was all excited when I left, thinking "whohoo - maybe now I at least have some guidance and a direction to head in to try to successfully get myself out of the overtrained state I am in." (you can see my post about overtraining here: http://forum.slowtwitch.com/...;;page=unread#unread)
Then today I look at the results and I may know less about all of it now than I did before the test! Of course I think of all the questions to ask now, not immediately after the test.
Does anyone have any experience interpreting the results?
Here is the data that I "think" I'm reading from my results:
VO2Max: 44 ml/kg/min
HRMax: 200
LT estimated at 74% VO2Max (did not do the blood lactate testing, just estimated from VO2 testing)
If I'm reading it right, my AT Value is 173, with a V'O2/HR/ML of 9.9 for that value (whatever that means!)
I have tons more data, but I don't know what any of it means.
I'm a bit surprised I maxed out only at 200 since some of my recent runs were topping 195-ish at a very easy effort. The tech did explain that a treadmill in air conditioner will produce different results than running outside in Houston, any time of the year, essentially acknowledging it is probably higher outside. But then again that doesn't really help me much because I have no idea how much higher. He also told his assistant as soon as I started that they may see a new record high that day because I shot up so fast (but then oddly didn't really go up much more from there).
The test was the first exercise of any type for me in 10 days, and before that I had run/walked 55 miles total in 5 weeks (including a 25k trail race 11/8), after an October 4 marathon.
I'm trying to make some sort of plan going forward to get back to training, but to make sure I don't overdo it at all at first and to work on building some aerobic base.
One school of thought is to just use the 4 zones from Going Long, based on a 200 max for running, and plan to stay only in Z1 and Z2 for a while and eventually start to insert some small intervals at Z4 once I think I'm ready. Is that useful at all, or should I use the data I just got differently? My zones using 200 max would be:
Z1: 130-148
Z2: 150-170
Z3: 172-178
Z4: 180-190
Also, I do not know what HR my LT % corresponds with. Any way to determine that with the info I have?
Then today I look at the results and I may know less about all of it now than I did before the test! Of course I think of all the questions to ask now, not immediately after the test.
Does anyone have any experience interpreting the results?
Here is the data that I "think" I'm reading from my results:
VO2Max: 44 ml/kg/min
HRMax: 200
LT estimated at 74% VO2Max (did not do the blood lactate testing, just estimated from VO2 testing)
If I'm reading it right, my AT Value is 173, with a V'O2/HR/ML of 9.9 for that value (whatever that means!)
I have tons more data, but I don't know what any of it means.
I'm a bit surprised I maxed out only at 200 since some of my recent runs were topping 195-ish at a very easy effort. The tech did explain that a treadmill in air conditioner will produce different results than running outside in Houston, any time of the year, essentially acknowledging it is probably higher outside. But then again that doesn't really help me much because I have no idea how much higher. He also told his assistant as soon as I started that they may see a new record high that day because I shot up so fast (but then oddly didn't really go up much more from there).
The test was the first exercise of any type for me in 10 days, and before that I had run/walked 55 miles total in 5 weeks (including a 25k trail race 11/8), after an October 4 marathon.
I'm trying to make some sort of plan going forward to get back to training, but to make sure I don't overdo it at all at first and to work on building some aerobic base.
One school of thought is to just use the 4 zones from Going Long, based on a 200 max for running, and plan to stay only in Z1 and Z2 for a while and eventually start to insert some small intervals at Z4 once I think I'm ready. Is that useful at all, or should I use the data I just got differently? My zones using 200 max would be:
Z1: 130-148
Z2: 150-170
Z3: 172-178
Z4: 180-190
Also, I do not know what HR my LT % corresponds with. Any way to determine that with the info I have?