I recently had the opportunity to have my VO2 Max tested courtesy of the fitness centre at work. Not the testing where you get hooked up by a tube to a machine, but a step test. Three minutes of stepping up on a box from a resting heart rate and then measuring my heart rate at the end and applying some voodoo math to the numbers to come up with a rating.
The rating is compared to a table, one for men and another for women broken out by age ranges. So you can lookup your rating and get an “average”, “good”, etc.
“Excellent” in my age range is anything over 41.
I scored a 44.13.
That’s right, I’m pumped!