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Episode #127: Why Saturated Fat Won’t Kill You But Vegetable Oil Will

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How to Improve Your VO2 Max

VO2 max occurs anywhere from about 10 to 20 heart rate beats above where your threshold occurs. When I've done VO2 max tests on people in my lab, I've never seen them be able to sustain VO2 max for more than two minutes. A workout to improve VO2 max might be 10, 30 second all out efforts with four minutes of rest between each of those 30 second all-out efforts. For people like triathletes or marathoners or swimmers working out at threshold is more important than working on a VO2 max.

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