BLU's Vo2Max of 101.1 mL/kg/min

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:joy: I love the tweet offering to calibrate

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[color=hotpink] They were using the 45kg weight he had entered in his last Zwift race. [/color]

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I remember an Olav Bu interview from before (not sure if with @JackKelly-TTH, Rich Roll, or Epstein’s doc) were he rambled about the calibration of the machines they used. Can’t recall or understand anything else he said as usual.

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Yep. Pretty sure it was the first of your three, though there were several interviews on Jack’s show and I’m not entirely sure which one it was.

However, I also remember him saying an interview (this might have been the Attia one) that if guys deliberately hold their breath for a little bit, they can spike the reading on the exhale.

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Hard to take anything Peter attia says seriously, since he was involved (at least in some capacity) w Jeffrey Epstein :face_with_peeking_eye:

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I am not a physiologist but my very primitive understanding is we can translate that 101 Vo2Max to a threshold power around 500watts

Now given the .21 CDA on a road bike they published, no wonder they knew they could win the tour.

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Who is ‘they’?

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“They” was Blu, Bu and anyone else in the entourage

I know very little about Vo2Max measurement. But when I see the CDA numbers they publish, and I know a little more about that, I go “wonder if all their numbers are this ridiculous”

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Since this is ST, I hope all of us are aware it’s a :horse: :poop: number.

From my side, I liked the joke in 2024, when it was mildly funny, and now it’s a joke that’s been repeated, so…

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This is an interesting thought process. Have you also become newly skeptical of e.g. the existence of Hawking radiation?

In any event, Bu said it, not Attia.

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Thanks. The choice of words, ‘they knew’, threw me off. Because in my most charitable interpretation, they at best believed that Blummenfelt could win the Tour de France. Because it doesn’t even matter if his VO2max value is accurate or not. A high VO2max alone does not a Tour de France winner make. And when it comes to actual performances as a cyclist, Blummenfelt has pretty much nothing to show for.