What's your VO2 max? Calc. your real respiratory condition.

[pigsteak]

Hey, makes as much sense to me as your formula for V02 max. In your words, I think that your above reasoning is faulty. Go do some research and report back to us. Better yet, don't.[/quote]

lmao

[chriss]

Aerobic respiration matters in any event lasting over 3-4 minutes, knowing ones Vo2 max is valuable if the intent is to perform endurance climbs.

I actually could not agree more with the first half of this statement. I just think that your definition of endurance climb is a little bit off of the standard for the red. Just because a climb is multipitch, doesn't make it an endurance climb. One is not climbing 1000 ft straight. Climb a pitch, take a break and belay, climb a pitch, take a break and belay, and so on. sounds alot like doing a pitch at the gorge, then another pitch at the gorge, and so on.

I think that a basic level of cardiovascular fitness comes into play when your climbing overhanging endurance routes. It allows you to rest more efficiently and to get your heartrate back down to a normal level more quickly.

[Horatio Felacio]

man, i've been to the valley a lot, and i've got to say that i've never had any problem with climbing there due to aerobic endurance. do you even climb ob juan? you're doing it wrong if you need a great vo2...maybe you're confusing rock climbing with hiking? there's a good training program for hikers at www.tubgirl.com

[dmw]

aw, Ho, I think I just got in trouble for trying to go to that site. I am afraid to ask what it was I work at a SCHOOL for chrissakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The IT people are gonna have a field day with me...

[charlie]

there's a good training program for hikers at www.tubgirl.com

I've also found some good info at http://www.lemonparty.org

[dmw]

Hey, you can't fool me! I had to email the computer guy, and I think he thinks I am some sort of weirdo freak. Great.

[OB Juan]

All this discussion about resting heart rates makes me curious. I participated in a graded exercise test last spring, in a physiology lab at UK and measured a Vo2 Peak of 52. interestingly enough I have a RHR of 52 -54. and qualify in the top 5% of all males age 30-39. BTW chronalogically I'm 47 (Top 1% of all males 40-49)

You can estimate your own by timing a mile and a half run and then using the formula below

This was the original post starting this thread. A simple statement about a formula to calcaulte V02 max.

Thanks the the butt holes who think they know more about everything under the sun and their click of croanies who believe they are the only spoken gospel in the world because they climb in the gorge the thread has been diverted to the now ongoing BS.

I'll say this, I do climb in the gorge, I wouldn't piss on most of you if you caught on fire and I know who several of you are.

I have climbed very long multi pitch routes in yosemite and yes you get breaks between leading 100 ft pitches. but not between every pitch, and leading trad on 100 ft pitches takes awhile. further the endurance part is in completing the entire route, the buildup of fatigue over several pitches one after another. Belaying from a hanging belay is helpful but it is not restful non active time.

More over I've done the east face of Whitney, the longest 1 day multipitch climb I've ever done (2300ft) twelve pitches with one real break on a ledge after pitch 6. The climb took 12.5 hours at a 5.9-5.10 rating, after hauling 60lbs. of gear 8.5 miles and up 5000 feet in elevation. If you don't think aerobic respiration was a factor think again. I've also climbed in Yosemite. I in fact climbed the falls two days after summiting Whitney and the same day, after kayaking the Merced river through the valley.

Here's the problem I see with the board- a group of personally nice enough people who have formed a click on the internet and if the click doesn't know someone personally or know who they are, the nature of the herd (click) is to assassinate and discredit the person regardless of the validity info posted. Unfortunately your mostly small minded, ego centric, and insecure. Which means people who have valuable things to post such as how to calculate your V02 max stop posting and the little people who form the click continue to bolster their egos with mental masturbation and ego flexing. Yet the quality of the board suffers and people from outside the Ky region or click who view the board seeking to find out what people in the area are like, see the sh*t that is posted and probably form negative opinions about the whole of the climbing community. Or, at least this climbing community, you know the climbers of the gorge. Your all shooting yourselves in the head trying to improve the image of the climbing community through the RRGCC and then presenting yourselves in the manner that you do on the board.

If aerobic condition isn't valuable then why do so many of you run??? and why are you spouting off about your low RHR's.

Nice jobs jack offs.

[dmw]

did you get that info at www.lemonparty.com or www.tubgirl.com, OB?

[Yasmeen]

39.277777777777777777777777777778 mL/Kg/Min

[chriss]

I have climbed very long multi pitch routes in yosemite and yes you get breaks between leading 100 ft pitches. but not between every pitch, and leading trad on 100 ft pitches takes awhile. further the endurance part is in completing the entire route, the buildup of fatigue over several pitches one after another. Belaying from a hanging belay is helpful but it is not restful non active time.

If you want to keep spraying about yourself, maybe you can start one of those trendy internet blogs.

Here's the problem I see with the board blah blah .. insert random bull shit .. blah blah

Nice jobs jack offs.

I guess you worse than everyone else, because on top of it your a hypocrite as well.