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- Oct 11, 2009
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Finally got my appt for a FBEC. I'll post the results in full on my blog - but in short, wow! This was at the Tokyo Metro Gym and very well done, except for a minor snafu , which resulted in a mid term abort on my part.
Basically they will do full ECG prep, questions, lung capacity , then wire you up for the erg. On the erg, you'll get a full linear test with blood gas monitoring. Sustained effort until you puke or abort.
In my case, I made it through roughly half the test cycle when I was basically overcome by panic of not being able to breathe through the far-too-small mask which was pinching my nose and mouth shut. I guess I'll never make it in the SAS waterboarding exercise.
Even though, the data collected was awesome and I'm looking forward to a return exam when they get a larger face mask available. The rough stats were that I was over 41.8 on avg VO2 and more than 160%AT with max HRM of 172. So, I was pretty happy with this, even though I didn't get chance to run the full gauntlet.
Anyone else try this test recently? My main incentive was to find out the optimum safe regions for training and avoid potentially damaging my bod by overtraining or overexerting. Something I guess you worry a bit about after a certain age ...
Basically they will do full ECG prep, questions, lung capacity , then wire you up for the erg. On the erg, you'll get a full linear test with blood gas monitoring. Sustained effort until you puke or abort.
In my case, I made it through roughly half the test cycle when I was basically overcome by panic of not being able to breathe through the far-too-small mask which was pinching my nose and mouth shut. I guess I'll never make it in the SAS waterboarding exercise.
Even though, the data collected was awesome and I'm looking forward to a return exam when they get a larger face mask available. The rough stats were that I was over 41.8 on avg VO2 and more than 160%AT with max HRM of 172. So, I was pretty happy with this, even though I didn't get chance to run the full gauntlet.
Anyone else try this test recently? My main incentive was to find out the optimum safe regions for training and avoid potentially damaging my bod by overtraining or overexerting. Something I guess you worry a bit about after a certain age ...