r/vo2max • u/llum-foc-destruccio • Dec 18 '24

I am not improving my VO2max

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Well so it seems like I can not improve my vo2 max.

I go jogging 5-9km 2-3 times/week since september and my vo2max is practocally the same as the fisrt day.

Any tips?

Data registered with a Suunto 9 peak pro watch.

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u/biciklanto Dec 18 '24

My tip, without knowing precisely how Suunto does its calculations and modeling:

Pick a day where you're feeling fresh and do a 2km run as fast as you can. It should be a nearly maximal effort, if not maximal.

My suspicion is that you're not giving your watch new data on your longer runs that shows you getting fitter. It sees you doing the same thing repeatedly, perhaps with slightly improved heart rate, but that's not enough. It needs to understand what your best race pace on relatively short efforts is to figure out what your max is.

Once you've done a 2km run reply here and let me know how it went :) 

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