FIT KIT GLOSSARY
Let’s just take five and get to grips with exactly what all those stats firing out at you really mean…
Clueless about what today’s wearables are actually telling you? Allow Stuff to break things down for you so you’re not drowning in a sea of data that could help or hinder your quest to get in better shape.
VO2 MAX
This is a performance metric that will tell you how fit you are and whether your overall fitness is improving. It’s the maximum volume of oxygen that’s transferred to blood – as your fitness improves, that level of oxygen can increase, showing that the pain is paying off.
RUNNING POWER
A new training metric for runners that cyclists have been familiar with for some time, this analyses workrate by measuring how much work you’re doing and how fast you’re doing it. Learning to understand and use power during training can help you to better pace yourself in races and get faster by sticking to a particular power number that’s personal to you.