On the 26th of November I advertised an online questionnaire. This questionnaire is now closed. Thankyou to those who made the effort to complete the questionnaire. The results are displayed in full here; http://www.healthsci.utas.edu.au/hls/forms/vo2quest.htm
Here is a brief summary There were 75 respondents to this questionnaire, which was less than we anticipated but still, a reasonable sample size. The purpose of the questionnaire was to identify the variety of methods that are used to analyse VO2 data from exercise tests. Our belief has been that there is a broad variety of methods in use and that we need to reach consensus on a standard method. The results of this questionnaire confirm that a broad variety of methods are being used. This is important because the method of analysis (ie. sample interval duration and criterion for a plateau in VO2) can have a significant effect on the value that is reported as VO2max. In other words, if we sent a set of raw VO2 data to the people who completed this questionnaire, asking them to determine VO2max, we would get many different results. The most common way in which VO2 data are analysed is by using 30 s averages of breath by breath data. Almost everyone checks for a plateau in VO2 and also make a distinction between �max� and �peak�. The most commonly used criterion for a plateau in VO2 is the 150 ml/min rule (or its variant) and most people also use additional criteria such as attainment of predicted HRmax and an RER > 1.10. Dan Dwyer and Robert Robergs ------------------------------------------- Dan Dwyer PhD Lecturer in Exercise Science School of Human Life Sciences University of Tasmania Bag 1320 Launceston 7250 (p) 03 6324 5485 (f) 03 6324 3658 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $4.98 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Q7_YsB/neXJAA/yQLSAA/2_TolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Post messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To (un)subscribe, send any message to sportscience-(un)[EMAIL PROTECTED] View all messages at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sportscience/. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sportscience/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
