Quote Originally Posted by Mike T View Post
VO2 max is related to weight - if you lose 5% of your weight, and it is fat you lose, not muscle, then your VO2 max will go up by 5%, and your running speed - roughly - will increase by 5%. A great incentive to get back to "racing" weight.
So my VO2max has decreased by about 5% since it was measured at 52 ml/min/kg during the experiment in Summer 2017 that I mentioned in my previous post. I was in a cohort of "physically active 50-60-year-olds", and they told me that of the 9 people in that cohort whom they had measured so far, my VO2max was the highest.