{"id":928,"date":"2012-11-08T04:18:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T10:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/?p=928"},"modified":"2014-07-13T10:48:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T15:48:30","slug":"vo-2-the-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/08\/vo-2-the-max\/","title":{"rendered":"VO 2 the Max"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;average&#8221;, &#8220;good&#8221;, etc.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Excellent&#8221; in my age range is anything over 41.<\/p>\n<p>I scored a 44.13. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, I&#8217;m pumped!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grab-bag"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}