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Guess what!!!!

Begin forwarded message:

From: Dr. Ryan Lee
To: john.hayato@gmail.com
Subject: Your ultrasound

Attached is a link of your ultrasound from this afternoon. View the rest here.
See you at your next appointment.

Dr. Ryan Lee, MD. Pediatrics.

***I’m not really having a baby.

This morning I took a VO2 max test at Breakaway Performance to measure my aerobic fitness and get some heart-rate numbers to have more efficient workouts.

For those of you unfamiliar with this test, here’s an explanation from About.com: “VO2 max, or maximal oxygen uptake, is one factor that can determine an athlete’s capacity to perform sustained exercise and is linked to aerobic endurance. VO2 max refers to the m

aximum amount of oxygen that an individual can utilize during intense or maximal exercise. It is measured as “milliliters of oxygen used in one minute per kilogram of body weight.”

e to problems with my heart-rate being transmitted I started the test 3 times so by my third time, I was quite warmed up. I had followed all the rules regarding food, caffeine, and alcohol intake so as to get the best results possible. Basically, I was told:

1 full day of rest – active recovery
No alcohol the day before
No coffee 12 hours before
No food 3 hours before

I’d been meaning to get a test like this taken over the past year but due to my schedule I wasn’t able to get it done until now. It actually came at the perfect time as I’m training for a 50 mile trail race with lots of elevation change and a lot of my workouts involve keeping my heart-rate at a certain level.

So on with the test. It happens on a treadmill with me wearing a mask that will measure my oxygen utilization. We started at 3 mph with 0% incline and gradually increased it until I was almost ready to pass out at 8 mph with 12 % incline. For 10 seconds I was at 14% incline but that wasn’t going to be sustainable. I will look more over the data I received from this test and fine tune my workouts so that they are more efficient.

The numbers I’m focusing on mostly is the 157 heartrate which is when I’m most efficient. I’m also happy that my VO2 Max was 69.8. I believe the average for somebody of my height and weight is 44.0. I was told that a ridiculously fit pro will be somewhere around 85.