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Well, my pulmonologist was able to schedule me for a Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test, aka VO2 Max test. I took the test today, and while I was told that it looked good, I didn't get a full explanation of the values. I'll get them in two weeks when I see my doc. But, the tech did tell me that my Anaerobic Thershold was 111 BPM. Can that be right? Could it be that it's 111 + my HRR of 56? God I hope so, because if it's really 111, I'm going anaerobic walking up a good hill. Has anyone here had the test? If so, do you have any input on this, or resouces for explanations. I can tell you that it appears they used the UCLA method of gathering the data. At least that's what the monitor showed.
111 certainly sounds ridiculously low and I've never heard of subtracting RHR to get it. It even sounds especially low for an aerobic threshold, which should be roughly MAF, and far less than anaerobic threshold. Here are some quantities you should ask for: 1. The profile of RQ (aka RER or R) for each increment of the test. 2. Heart rate at an RQ of .78 3. Heart rate at an RQ of .85 4. Heart rate where RQ just reaches 1 (this should be the anaerobic threshold). 5. Heart rate at vo2max (assuming you ever reached it - it's possible that you didn't) 6. max heart rate