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Kevin, If you scored an 80, that would put you far above most of the top nordic/crross country skiers--typically the highest of all athletes in VO2 max. I'd suggest you get retested by "experts", and if you still test this high, get your lazy ass out on the road and start winning bike races :-) As to VO2 max being overated, it is the best measure we have of cardiovascular fitness, and more importantly for diving, of the peripherol adaptations which correlate with high VO2 max. As to a reliability indicator, I am saying "normal" tech divers should be at least 30 ml / kg, and deep exploration cave divers should be in the high 40's if not high 50's. I believe Goeorge can score high 60's, and his recovery from huge exposures, relative to all other divers, underlines this. If a Wak 2 guy came in at 20 ml/kg of body weight, I'd say he should be dumped from the team until he can get it up into at least the 40's. This is what my reference to VO2 max was suposed to imply. Regards, Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Metcalfe [mailto:metcalfe@ec*.co*] > Sent: Friday, September 18, 1998 11:04 AM > To: techdiver@aquanaut.com > Cc: rebreather@nw*.co*; cavers@ca*.co* > Subject: Re: Why the USDCT so dangerous.. Was Which 2 Rebreathers killed > > > Dan Volker wrote: > > > Rich, fitness is measured by VO2 max. For you to reply to me that > > these guys > > are really quite fit, is far short of the mark. If Stone has not had > > them > > VO2 max tested, he has just created another stupidity near equal to > > waiting > > this long to teach them rebreather use, or to buy them drysuits. > > Dan, you should know that VO2 max is highly overrated as a measure of > fitness. For instance, Leonard Harvey Nitz, four time olympian cyclist, > with two olympic medals (1984), two world championship medals and over > 17 national championships had a VO2 max of around 60. His ergometer > scores were so bad that many of the women at the Olympic Training Center > scored better than him. George Mount who placed 6th in the 1976 Olympic > road race had a similar VO2 max. My VO2 max has been measured at 80 and > I've never been anywhere near an olympic team. Yet by a pure VO2 max > measurement I'm fitter than them? Maybe I'll go over to Harvey's house > and demand that he give me his medals when I show him my VO2 score. :) > > Now VO2 max may mean quite a bit when we're talking about deep diving. > I'd image (though I don't know) that having excellent gas exchange can > only help in these types of dives. But it has little corelation with > actual athletic performance. > > -- > Kevin Metcalfe > metcalfe@ec*.co* > Concord, CA > > Cycling Scout > http://www.bayinsider.com/getout/cycling > > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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