VO2 Max Testing

£140

VO2 max testing is the most important test for your aerobic performance, measuring how your body consumes oxygen.

Athlete Lab testing also compares your oxygen uptake to fuel utilisation across exercise intensity levels, so you know when you’re using what.

This insight is essential for optimising performance, so you can spot strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities to improve your training by targeting your personal needs.

World-class testing - available for everyone.

Find the weakness…

VO2 Max Testing is a huge part of our packages because it’s so important. Research suggests that Oxygen utilisation makes up as much as 70% of performance differences between athletes in multi-demand sports (like Football or Rugby).

It’s the difference between gassing out early or maintaining your performance consistently over time. It’s the difference between elite competitors and lifetime intermediates.

Understanding where you’re struggling is the fastest route to the fix, and that all begins with your VO2 max test!

Commit to real progress with a test

FAQs

  • You should use a VO2 Max test because they're the most important way of measuring your aerobic endurance - a key factor in sports performance.

    This is at the heart of most popular sports, with elite athletes in endurance sports scoring incredibly highly on VO2 Max tests.

    This combines with other factors like your technical efficiency, skill, strength, and lactate threshold (anaerobic endurance).

  • Anyone who has sporting goals that include endurance should get a VO2 max test. It provides the most useful way to measure performance for a wide range of sports.

    The way we test VO2 Max also adds even more value: by breaking down your performance by intensity level, we can specifically identify your personal strengths, weaknesses, and needs.

    When you come to your next training programme with this kind of knowledge, you can make data-driven decisions about improving your performance more effectively. It's key information for unlocking your potential.

  • A VO2 Max Test takes 1 hour - though only 30 minutes of this time will be spent testing. The rest of the time is for warm-ups, discussion, cool-down, and a little bit of extra time so you're always on schedule.

    This way, we know that you can get the test performed with additional expert insight and a time buffer so you're never going to struggle to fit an Athlete Lab UK physiology test into your day!

  • VO2 Max testing improves performance by identifying strengths and weaknesses, informing your training, and then providing a reliable metric for progress.

    Physiology testing is a way of setting a baseline of existing performance and checking in on your long-term changes by repeatedly measuring performance.