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I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you learn about why you need a healthy V.O2 max and how you can get it.

A man who had deja vu for eight years and a shady debate

tactic for winning arguments. Let's satisfy some curiosity. If you want to be

super healthy then you should have a high V.O2 max.

And I'm going to tell you what that is and how you can get it.

In the fitness world, there are generally two camps,

the cardio buffs and the strength trainers.

If you're exercising for the health benefits though, cardio fitness is important for everyone,

no matter which camp you fall in.

And cardio is what will help you improve your V.O.2 max.

You know how the faster you run the more oxygen you consume?

Well in the 1920s an exercise physiologist named A.V. Hill

noticed there was a cutoff point for how much oxygen you could consume while exercising.

Once a person's cardio respiratory systems hit that invisible line,

they could keep running faster, but their oxygen consumption didn't keep up.

That invisible line was what Hill called the maximal oxygen intake,

which today we call your V.O2 max.

That's an acronym where V stands for volume,

O2 stands for oxygen, and Max stands for maximum.

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