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Anyone Remember this Article About Lance??
"BD" wrote in message
... Hey all, I have been trying to find a piece that was in a cycling magazine a while back. It could have been in a mainstream sports article, but I don't think so. The article was about a piece of testing equipment that the University of Texas had for measuring lung capacity and performance under stress. The article talked about how they had tested all kinds of athletes in all of the major sports and then got Lance to come in, he promptly destroyed the previous marks for performance that they had measured on other athlete. There was much more in the article, but that is what I remember most about it. Anyone have any idea what magazine it appeared in or where I can find it? Never seen the article, but undoubtly it was about physiological testing in Ed Coyle's lab at UT-Austin. Lung capacity wouldn't have been measured (since except in swimmers and perhaps gymnasts, it isn't altered by athletic activity), but VO2max would have been. Unless something has changed significantly, however, I doubt that Armstrong "promptly destroyed the previous marks for performance they had measured on other athletes". His VO2max has been reported to be in the low to mid 80 mL/min/kg range, and I know for a fact that at least one other cyclist has recorded a similar value in Ed's lab. Now that I think about it, Bicycling did a piece about Ed's lab a few years ago...had a picture of him sitting on the ergometer in normal clothes, maybe juggling something? Andy Coggan |
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"Andy Coggan" wrote in message arthlink.net... "BD" wrote in message ... The article was about a piece of testing equipment that the University of Texas had for measuring lung capacity and performance under stress. The article talked about how they had tested all kinds of athletes in all of the major sports and then got Lance to come in, he promptly destroyed the previous marks for performance that they had measured on other athlete. There was much more in the article, but that is what I remember most about it. Here's Michael Specter's article that includes a paragraph about Lance Armstrongs VO@ Max testing: http://www.michaelspecter.com/ny/200..._15_lance.html "Armstrong was an outstanding young swimmer, and as an adolescent he began to enter triathlons. By 1987, when he was sixteen, he was also winning bicycle races. That year, he was invited to the Cooper Institute, in Dallas, which was one of the first centers to recognize the relationship between fitness and aerobic conditioning. Everyone uses oxygen to break down food into the components that provide energy; the more oxygen you are able to use, the more energy you will produce, and the faster you can run, ride, or swim. Armstrong was given a test called the VO2 Max, which is commonly used to assess an athlete's aerobic ability: it measures the maximum amount of oxygen the lungs can consume during exercise. His levels were the highest ever recorded at the clinic. (Currently, they are about eighty-five millilitres per kilogram of body weight; a healthy man might have a VO2 Max of forty.)" |
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Anyone Remember this Article About Lance??
I believe the lab stuff was also recounted in a New Yorker feature on LANCE
earlier this year. |
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Anyone Remember this Article About Lance??
jeffl wrote:
There was some mention of the testing in a UofT in Dec 2002 Sports Illustrated. The one with Lance as sportsman of the year. It talked about some (?)baseball(?) player riding a cybex machine for about 4 minutes before total exhaustion. Lance rides it for an hour. -jl Quite inconclusive. (Though I do not doubt that baseball players have little aerobic capacity in general. Most of them don't qualify as athletes IMO.) A cyclist is going to ride any bike better than another kind of athlete. In many cases, much better. -- -- Lynn Wallace http://www.xmission.com/~lawall "I'm not proud. We really haven't done everything we could to protect our customers. Our products just aren't engineered for security." --Microsoft VP in charge of Windows OS Development, Brian Valentine. |
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