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How Long Does It Take to Lose Your Fitness? Firstbeat VO2max Fitness Level defines your true fitness level

#Exercise and Fitness

How Long Does It Take to Lose Your Fitness?

Just as your fitness improves over time, it declines if you stop training. Significant reductions in your cardiorespiratory fitness, that is VO2max, occur already within 2 to 4 weeks of detraining.

What’s Your Fitness Age? VO2max Reveals It VO2max typically declines with age

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What’s Your Fitness Age? VO2max Reveals It

VO2max is generally regarded as the best indicator of cardiorespiratory fitness. The higher your VO2max, the better your aerobic fitness.

Intensity Is Your Fitness Friend Training Effect improving fitness

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Intensity Is Your Fitness Friend

You may have heard that your fitness level is determined by your genetics. This is true. Luckily, that’s not the whole story. Experts say that about half of the variation in physical fitness between individuals is heritable, meaning it comes to you through your parents.

Answering the Fitness Question with Science VO2 - good fitness level

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Answering the Fitness Question with Science

When it comes to your health and fitness, it’s easy to ask the wrong questions. “Am I fit?” is one of these questions that just creates problems. Thinking about your fitness in terms of VO2max is the easiest way to get started.

5 Reasons to Boost your VO2max VO2max good fitness level

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5 Reasons to Boost your VO2max

Results matter. In terms of understanding whether your activity and lifestyle profile translates into real health benefits, VO2max – the defining metric of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) – is the perfect resource.

VO2max the Ultimate Resource for Conquering Your Health and Performance Goals

VO2max the Ultimate Resource for Conquering Your Health and Performance Goals

This technology is new to many, but the groundwork for this revolutionary step has been carefully developed and curated by Firstbeat for well over a decade.

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