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SECOND LOOK: FIELDS OF STUDY

By Brett Zarda

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

[Ed.'s Note: In the latest issue of The Mag, Brett Zarda outlines a few of the major sports science studies making headlines today. Here's a little more background on each of those studies, as well as a few others that didn't make The Mag.] DEBUNKING THE MYTHS THE VO2 DEBATE The 40-yd dash is to football coaches what VO2 Max is to exercise physiologists. But a paper published this April in the British Journal of Sports Medicine argues the iconic metric is literally 'mindless'. By not telli ...

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