Garmin Trails is a new subscription-based feature available through Garmin Connect+. It’s designed to help outdoor ...

This key metric reflects how much oxygen your body uses during a workout. But it isn’t just for athletes—your VO2 max is a critical indicator for your future health and longevity ...

Keeping track of VO2 max on your Garmin is a great way to monitor your aerobic fitness and cardiorespiratory efficiency, and viewing this figure is possible both on the watch and in Garmin Connect.

But there’s one metric that stands apart: VO2 max, which provides insight into your aerobic fitness by capturing how well your heart, lungs, circulatory system and muscles work together.

With a fitness tracker, you’ll have access to a variety of these health metrics—but there’s one that is key to determining your cardiovascular fitness that you may be ignoring: your VO2 max.

Both of them rely on VO2 max as a gold-standard objective measure of aerobic fitness, rather than trying to estimate fitness or exercise habits. One finds that higher VO2 max is associated with ...

Whoop has introduced VO2 max estimation, giving users access to one of the most important markers for assessing cardiovascular fitness and aerobic endurance. The feature is now available to Whoop ...

If your body is a machine, the size of its engine is your VO2 max, a measure of how quickly you can pump oxygen from your lungs through your bloodstream and into your leg muscles. A higher VO2 max ...