Originally Posted by
MDcatV
who is taking the charts and graphs, interpreting them, drawing conclusions from them, and recommending training based on those conclusions? there's alot of interpretation from these tests that can really alter your training, not always in a good way.
if you're not paying for the tests, that's one thing. if you're paying for this, you are not using your $ optimally to benefit your training.
a friend on my team works in a lab that has testing equipment, and as such, people on the team volunteer to be guinea pigs for the tests. so yes, they are free. now given that, i get the feeling that this isn't the end all and be all of tests, and given the choice of relying solely on info from VO2max vs info from a powermeter, i'd go with the latter. the number i care the most about
: the FTPHR, estimated by taking the last 20min of a 30min TT, & the LTHR obtained from the lab didn't differ that much: 173 for the former and 167 for the latter. while the definition of the two are similar, they aren't the same and i'm actually using what i get on the road test for training purposes.