EDIT - I just asked the researcher; he said they start at 50 watts and up it by 25 watts every minute for fit people. I'll probably last about 2 min ;-)
I'm going to be a lab rat for an ex phys grad student and part of it involves a vo2 max test on a bike. I've only done a treadmill one before. It looks like the bike protocol is called the Astrand protocol from googling - they look at HR at a certain intensity, and continue to up the intensity every 6 min while watching HR until HR gets over the desired limit.
Does that sound about right? The treadmill one I recall increased every 3 min basically until I got spit off the back of it, or something like that. They tracked HR but I don't recall it being involved in deciding whether or not I'd keep going - as I said, we just kept going til I'd had enough.
maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD
I'm going to be a lab rat for an ex phys grad student and part of it involves a vo2 max test on a bike. I've only done a treadmill one before. It looks like the bike protocol is called the Astrand protocol from googling - they look at HR at a certain intensity, and continue to up the intensity every 6 min while watching HR until HR gets over the desired limit.
Does that sound about right? The treadmill one I recall increased every 3 min basically until I got spit off the back of it, or something like that. They tracked HR but I don't recall it being involved in deciding whether or not I'd keep going - as I said, we just kept going til I'd had enough.
maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD
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Dr. Tigerchik: Jan 23, 23 10:00