A snapshot of your cardio fitness paints a picture of your health.
If you can measure your cardio capability, you can optimize it—and improve it.
Pinnacle VO2 Max
The very name “VO2 Max Testing” sounds like something for hard-core athletes. And it’s certainly beneficial for them. But it’s also a great idea for anyone who might benefit from an accurate measure of their cardiovascular and respiratory health.
A VO2 Max test measures how much oxygen our bodies use during exercise. You hop on a treadmill or bike and breathe into a mask that measures how much air you’re inhaling and exhaling. At Pinnacle, the test isn’t done in an intimidating or judgmental way—we’re just here to gather information. From that, we’re able to extrapolate a number of helpful indicators about our overall wellbeing … and form a plan to maximize your fitness, longevity, and healthspan.
Our approach
Pinnacle places a high priority on holistic health, so we love measuring fitness not just for performance’s sake, but as an important data point for your overall health and quality of life. It’s something we can monitor over time, so it’s valuable now and later, too.
The test itself is simple and nothing to stress. You can do it on either a treadmill or exercise bike, whichever you prefer. We’ll outfit you with a mask that measures your breathing. We’ll slowly increase the intensity of the exercise until it’s too hard. That gives us a snapshot of where you are now. (And it gives you a little workout thrown in.)
Pinnacle VO2 Max services
What your VO2 Max tells us:
Your results help steer us as we guide your personalized health and fitness strategies. We’ll gain things like:
Longevity insights
We know a higher VO2 Max is associated with better heart health and reduced risk of age-related diseases. Your results inform how we monitor your cardiovascular health and set you up for long term wellness.
Precise measurement of cardio fitness
We get an objective read on your endurance, which helps us assess your overall health and resilience now.
Performance and health benchmarking
Now we have a baseline to track improvements in your fitness and health over time, even if you’re more focused on aging well than you are on sheer athleticism. We’ll have a deep familiarity with your individual heart-rate zones, which means we know where you’re burning mostly fat as a fuel and when you’re burning mostly carbohydrates as a fuel. Not only does this help us up your performance, but it gives us a better understanding on where your heart rate needs to be if you’re aiming to reduce your body fat.
Now, we’ll have the data we need to design training and treatment plans that strengthen your heart, improve blood flow, reduce risk of cardiovascular disease, increase your oxygen efficiency, and custom tailor your cardio regimen. Equipped with our baseline, we can monitor just how well you’re maintaining strength and vitality as you move through chapters of life.
Welcome to feeling better.
We use a direct-care model that avoids the hassle and restriction of insurance, which means we can see patients as often as they need, take more time with them, and offer more thorough care. While we leave insurance out of the patient-doctor relationship, insurance still may cover your medications, or we may be able to connect you with coupons that keep the cost of medication to a minimum.
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It all starts with a phone consultation so we can get to know one another and make a plan.
