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Dear Martin

You have a very good and interesting web side, good work:) My name is Magnus Magnusson and a team handball coach in Norway and a master degree student in sports and Health. Íam doing a research on health and fitness in 18 years old high school students and I did see you're vo2max reference table (Don de Winter MD Sportsmedicine). Is there any possibility to get this paper or the reference. This is the only one I have found that has the 18 year old seperated, most of them have 20-29 year old.

Best regards,
Magnus

Dear Magnus,

these figures arise from an international publication done by Shvarts & Reibold and a lot of Dutch sportsmedical doctors work wth these values,

Good Luck,

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Martin, Rugbyhead

Thank you,

I did find the research on pubmed (see below) after I got the names of the authors from you.
Thank you very much.

best regards,
Magnusson


1: Aviat Space Environ Med. 1990 Jan;61(1):3-11.
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Aerobic fitness norms for males and females aged 6 to 75 years: a review.
Shvartz E, Reibold RC.

Universal Fitness Testing, Long Beach, CA.

An extensive literature review was performed of studies where VO2max was measured directly in healthy, untrained subjects in the USA, Canada and 7 European countries to establish absolute (L/min) and relative (ml.kg-1.min-1) VO2max norms in males and females aged 6-75 years. Mean norms (L/min) in males show an increase from 1.0 L/min at age 6 years, to 2.0 and 3.4 L/min at ages 12 and 18 years, respectively, after which they decline with age to 3.2, 2.7, and 1.6 L/min for ages 30, 50, and 75 years, respectively.

The corresponding values for females aged 6, 12, 18, 30, 50, and 75 years are 0.9, 1.8, 2.2, 1.8, and 1.1 L/min, respectively. Sex differences in relative VO2max are smaller than the above.
Mean values for males for the above age groups are 47.5, 50, 48, 35, and 25 ml.kg-1.min-1, respectively, with corresponding values for females of 42.5, 44, 41, 28, and 17.5 ml.kg-1.min-1, respectively.

These norms (L/min) are slightly lower than Robinson's 1938 data on males; they are only 1.5% lower compared with Astrand's adult males norms; but 2.5 to 10% lower than Astrand's norms for adult females. Present norms (ml.kg-1.min-1) for middle aged and older women are 25% lower than the corresponding Astrand's norms.