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Re:How ‘Trainable’ Is VO2 Max Really? – A Case Study (2019) by asdfge4drg on Saturday September 18, 2021 @02:31AM (#28574185)
"is the total amount of oxygen that your muscles can extract from your blood per minute"

genuine question, but wouldn't this also correlate with muscle mass? you can put on a LOT of muscle, so doesn't more muscle mean more oxygen being extracted from your blood?

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Re:How ‘Trainable’ Is VO2 Max Really? – A Case Study (2019) by matsemann on Saturday September 18, 2021 @06:36AM (#28575091)
Yes. But the unit is ml/kg/min, so increasing your mass with muscles increases the ml extracted, but also the division by kg.
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