Vo2 Max and Walking

6638501 1 month ago

Hello users

I had and injury and had to stop running for more than a month.

Yesterday and Today I was able to my first walks, during the walks we were talking, eating, making photos, etc ... :)

Strange behaviour.

My Vo2 Max dropped down from 50 to 47 .

Anyone else experiencing same after weeks of doing nothing?

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Morrison66 1 month ago +3 suggested

If the watch has a lack of running activities in the last 30 days, it will try to estimate your vo2max using walking activities. Obviously it is the worst estimate that it can do

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+1 Morrison66 1 month ago

If the watch has a lack of running activities in the last 30 days, it will try to estimate your vo2max using walking activities. Obviously it is the worst estimate that it can do

0 Wolfindal 1 month ago

If you can't run and do any sports, your VO2max also naturally goes down.

0 6638501 29 days ago in reply to Morrison66

Thank you for answer. Yes, it is as you write. Maybe I will get back to my fit days soon and get back my old statistics.

However it is really interesting how much it drops when a person stops running.

0 razmichael 29 days ago in reply to 6638501

I suspect (although I would expect a drop) it is more to do with what morrison66 noted - getting VO2Max from walking is really really more guess than science. The watch at best it is taking a controlled treadmill run wearing an oxygen measuring mask in a lab and trying to model this for out running with no control over footing, wind, etc. As part of a research project a few years ago I was being lab tested and I was impressed how close, for me, the watch matched but then I’d be back on trails or snowshoe running and it would drop dramatically! This was before you could set the watch to not calculate VO2Max for specific activities.