Cooper derived the equation from young male US Air Force personnel; pacing and motivation change the result a lot.
An estimated VO₂ max of 42.4 mL/kg/min (12.1 METs) rates “Fair” for men aged 30–39.
Men aged 30–39
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Cooper equation (distance in metres)
VO2max=44.732,400−504.9=42.37
Rate against the norms
Men 30–39: Fair from 40.5, Good from 44, Excellent from 48.3, Superior from 54 mL/kg/min.
VO2 max calculator ਬਾਰੇ
VO₂ max is the most oxygen the body can use during maximal exercise, in millilitres per kilogram of body weight per minute. Three field tests estimate it: Cooper's 12-minute run, (distance in metres − 504.9) ÷ 44.73; the Rockport 1-mile walk (Kline, 1987), from walk time, finishing heart rate, weight, age and sex; and Uth's ratio, 15.3 × maximum ÷ resting heart rate. The result is rated against Cooper Institute percentiles for your age and sex and converted to METs by dividing by 3.5.
People use it to track aerobic fitness without a laboratory test. A 35-year-old man who covers 2,400 m in 12 minutes scores 42.4 mL/kg/min, or 12.1 METs, which rates Fair for men aged 30–39.
Each test predicts a treadmill-measured value from a regression fitted on one group, so pacing, motivation and heat shift the result. The Uth ratio was validated only in 46 well-trained men.
ਹੱਲ ਕੀਤੀਆਂ ਉਦਾਹਰਨਾਂ
Cooper: 2,800 m, man aged 25
Test
Cooper 12-minute run
Sex (for the formula)
Male
ਉਮਰ
25 years
Distance covered in 12 minutes
2800 m
ਵੱਧ ਤੋਂ ਵੱਧ ਆਕਸੀਜਨ ਸਮਰੱਥਾ (VO₂ max)
51.3 mL/kg/min
Rating (Cooper Institute)
Excellent
ਜਾਂਚ ਦਾ ਸਰੋਤ: Python 3.8 decimal: (2800 − 504.9)/44.73 = 51.3101; Cooper Institute men 20–29: 51.1 ≤ v < 55.4 → Excellent
It depends on age and sex. In the Cooper Institute percentiles used here, men aged 30–39 rate Good (60th percentile) from 44.0 and Superior (95th) from 54.0 mL/kg/min, while women of the same age rate Good from 37.8 and Superior from 47.4. Thresholds fall with age: for men aged 60–69, Good starts at 35.5. These are percentile ranks within a tested population, not clinical cut-offs.
How do you calculate VO2 max from the Cooper test?
Take the distance covered in 12 minutes of running, in metres, subtract 504.9 and divide by 44.73. Covering 2,400 m gives 42.4 mL/kg/min, and 2,800 m gives 51.3. Kenneth Cooper published the equation in JAMA in 1968 after comparing 12-minute run distances with treadmill-measured VO₂ max in US Air Force men. It assumes an all-out, evenly paced effort.
Why does VO2 max matter for health?
Cardiorespiratory fitness predicts survival. A 2009 JAMA meta-analysis by Kodama and colleagues (33 studies, 102,980 participants) found that each 1-MET higher maximal aerobic capacity was linked with a 13 % lower risk of death from any cause and 15 % fewer coronary and cardiovascular events. People below 7.9 METs, about 27.7 mL/kg/min, had the highest risk.
How close are field tests to a laboratory VO2 max test?
Within a few mL/kg/min for the groups they were built on. Uth's heart-rate ratio estimated measured VO₂ max with a standard error of 2.7 mL/kg/min (about 4.5 %) using a measured maximum heart rate, and 4.7 mL/kg/min (about 7.8 %) using an age-predicted one, in well-trained men. Kline's Rockport equation was fitted on 343 healthy adults aged 30 to 69.
Cooper KH. A means of assessing maximal oxygen intake. JAMA 1968;203(3):201–204; Kline GM et al. Estimation of VO2max from a one-mile track walk, gender, age, and body weight. Med Sci Sports Exerc 1987;19(3):253–259; Uth N, Sørensen H, Overgaard K, Pedersen PK. Estimation of VO2max from the ratio between HRmax and HRrest — the heart rate ratio method. Eur J Appl Physiol 2004;91(1):111–115; Cooper Institute VO₂ max percentiles, reprinted in Garmin's VO2 max standard ratings.