Originally posted by Bike2112:
One of my best friends owns a bike shop. We regularly sponsor VO2 max sessions,
I find that shocking, in light of your telling the starter of this thread that VO2 is the way to get where he wants to go. 
Exercise science is quite the phenomenon. Amazingly, I've acheived tremendous fitness goals without spending hundreds of dollars on assessments and programs. There is no substitute for hard work. And quite honestly, much of exercise/nutrition science is Circus Science. You will have one person telling you this is the way to do it (Atkins) and have another tell you that way to do it will kill you. The same goes for exercise science.
I guess if you want to be a professional athlete, you can go and spend hundreds of dollars on assessments, supplements, programs, and equipment. I didn't get that indication from the starter of this thread however, since he was simply looking for an ab routine, not how to correctly balance the pH and oxygen levels of his blood.
EDIT: I misspoke. I was in a speed/endurance/plyo program in high school that cost several hundred dollars, but it was completely natural and did not alter my body chemistry in any way.
Last edited by Davo; 01/12/05 01:47 AM.
