So for the VO2 max predictions I was a little disappointed. I mean... I'm really not THAT out of shape, yet I scored average on the treadmill and bicycle test, and below average on the step test. And I'm just wondering... is the "average" of the entire population or is it for only the population that might have done that testing? Say individuals like us, in a class, or athletes, or people that go in for yearly physicals. But not the general population?
I'm sure a lot of things affect the testing... asthma, what you ate and drank before, whether you had a hard workout the day before, menstrual cycle, drug usage (steroids, amond others), situation (like Chuck said, if there's no motivation to keep going on that treadmill, are you really going to try as hard as would say, in a race?), and many other various things.
Maybe we'll do these tests again at the end of the semester to see if we've improved at all. That'd be interesting.
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Jesse, you are exactly right, many things that you mentioned influence a max test, which will lead us into an excellent class discussion next week about norms and interpreting the results!
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