CoachThe maximal oxygen consumption , written max, is the highest rate at which a person’s body can take up and use oxygen, in litres per minute — or, to compare people of different sizes, in millilitres per minute per kilogram of body mass. It sets the highest power that can be sustained by respiration alone. Typical values: per kilogram in a sedentary adult, in a trained student, or more in a champion endurance athlete.
Examples
Example 7.6 (Reading the curve)
In the figure, of pedalling costs of oxygen: per minute, i.e. of metabolic power — the of work plus of heat and resting needs, in line with Proposition 7.2. The ceiling of for a subject is per kilogram.