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What’s the optimal intensive exercise for your maximal performance? Do you know your cardiovascular fitness? Participate in a free field test to determine your peak aerobic power (VO2peak)!
Click to download the VO2Peak Project Brochure here.
In sports, many athletes not only depend on training, equipment and talent to make it to the top. In today’s world, “sports medicine” and “sports science” have become common phrases in grooming of many elite athletes, enabling them to boost their optimal performance beyond the capability of traditional methods.
However, high costs, extensive time and resource usage are usually unavoidable in laboratory tests such as arm ergometry. A group of third-year student physiotherapists from Nanyang Polytechnic has thus proposed to find out if a multi-stage field test can be used as an alternative to determine the peak aerobic power (otherwise known as VO2peak) of elite lower-limb impaired athletes.
Should this test be successful, paraplegic athletes will be able to be tested in future to determine the optimal intensive exercise level for them to boost their performance, without the need for expensive and prolonged laboratory tests.
Through the tests, athletes will also be able to understand their cardiovascular fitness.
The tests will be conducted in two 20-minute sessions in October at Nanyang Polytechnic. 30 places are available for interested elite paraplegic athletes. The tests will be conducted free-of-charge.
Application criteria:
- Lower-limbed impaired athletes aged between 13 to 60 years
- Involved in upper limb sports
- Training two to three times a week at national or international level
- Without known cardiovascular, cardiopulmonary or metabolic diseases
- Not more than 2 coronary artery disease risk factors.
For registration or more information, please contact:
Ms Kwa Su Ai
Student Researcher
Call 8123 3620 or email
Mr Lian Guojie
Student Researcher
Call 9781 4852 or email
Mr Bala
Project Coordinator
Email