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Re:Cardio fitness is a strong, consistent predictor of morbi... by basil-rash on Thursday May 02, 2024 @10:50PM (#40243516)
Is that true? Back when I was a crew gremlin, my VO2 max as measured via erging was off the charts. But I could apply that cardio capacity to things like running/biking/swimming pretty effectively.
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Re:Cardio fitness is a strong, consistent predictor of morbi... by richardanaya on Thursday May 02, 2024 @11:05PM (#40243615)
There's famous studies about people testing VO2 max with one leg trained exercises,then looking at VO2 max with non-trained leg.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1748-1716.1976...

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Re:Cardio fitness is a strong, consistent predictor of morbi... by swatcoder on Thursday May 02, 2024 @11:02PM (#40243599)
It's true in the sense that you'll be better optimized towards the activities you train in most intensely in regularly, but you do develop transferable gains as well. It's just not 100% transferable.

I think the GP's comment is just easy to misread.

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