{"id":2843,"date":"2009-07-28T13:53:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T11:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=2843"},"modified":"2016-11-12T17:12:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T16:12:27","slug":"vo2max-of-99-5mlkgmin-and-440-watt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2009\/07\/vo2max-of-99-5mlkgmin-and-440-watt\/","title":{"rendered":"VO2max of 99.5ml\/kg\/min and 440 Watt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s possible and what&#8217;s unlikely to be possible: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsscientists.com\/2009\/07\/tour-de-france-2009-contador-vo2max.html\">sportsscientists.com<\/a> discusses the recent watt burst of the TdF winner at the Verbier climb.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8230; Antoine Vayer calculates that given Contador&#8217;s power output on that climb (which he calculates as 490W for a 78kg &#8220;normalized&#8221; rider &#8211; more on that later), and with one or two assumptions to turn that power output into oxygen consumption, Contador would be riding at 5.55 L\/min. The problem with this is that it implies that Contador&#8217;s VO2max is about 99.5ml\/kg\/min!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"450\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kitnZYQ7xPE&#038;hl=de&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kitnZYQ7xPE&#038;hl=de&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Hematide? Aicar? No idea &#8211; there is an endless list of untested substances that will make the impossible possible.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 06.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s possible and what&#8217;s unlikely to be possible: sportsscientists.com discusses the recent watt burst of the TdF winner at the Verbier climb. &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 06.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2993],"tags":[2548],"class_list":["post-2843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","category-video","tag-doping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2843"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2870,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions\/2870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}