The importance of the verification phase following an incremental exercise to ensure maximum oxygen consumption.

CONCLUSIONS: The GXT provided only a peak VO2 but not the VO2max. Consequently, the real VO2max and PPO could be provided by only VP administrations. This is likely to result from the lower Qc and SV responses observed from a prolonged incremental test protocol when compared to short bouts of constant work rate trials. PMID: 32639117 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness - Category: Sports Medicine Tags: J Sports Med Phys Fitness Source Type: research