and coaches generally agree that there are three ways to improve running performance: you can increase your maximum oxygen uptake, or VO2max, which measures the greatest volume of oxygen that can be dispatched to your muscles during exercise; you can extend
oxygen-delivery machines who know their VO2 max and use the impressive numbers to bolster their confidence. Armstrong knows his VO2 max, too. His long-time friend, confidante, and coach, Chris Carmichael, has had his star pupil tested on several occasions
of running not mileage totals, not your marathon PB, and certainly not the percentage of VO2 max you can maintain when running at lactate-threshold pace while holding your breath on a treadmill set at a six-per-cent-incline in a hypoxic tent. These Zen
seconds per mile.Run about eight per cent of your weekly mileage at your interval (INT) pace This pace improves your VO2 max and your ability to run at a fast pace. Your INT pace is 5K pace, minus 10 to 20 seconds per mile.Run two per cent of your weekly
of recovery. (Cycling was chosen because it was felt it would be easier to make effort levels consistent for all of the subjects.) Then the subjects cycled to exhaustion at 70 per cent of their VO2max. The men drank equivalent volumes of Mars Original
boosts maximal aerobic capacity (VO2 max), essential to distance-running potential, because the less weight you carry around, the more miles per gallon you get from your oxygen. And losing a few pounds makes running easier, so you should be able
