Moving from below-average to above-average VO2max is associated with a 41% increased risk of all-cause mortality.

“it's probably a little less important where you are in the moment and more important uh you know in terms of the trajectory you're heading”

“people the fitter you are the the lower your chance of dying in the next year two years five years years 10 years”

“if you looked at the hazard ratio the other way because we often think about Hazard ratios in Risk reduction but if you look about it in Risk increase when you compared the people in the top two and a half percent uh of V2 Max to the bottom 25% the hazard ratio moving in that direction was 5.04”

“if you just go from below average to above average right if I were just to compare you from you know your level at the 25th to 50th percentile to someone who's in the 50th to 75th percentile the hazard ratio is 1.41 in other words you are 41% more likely to die in the coming year than somebody who is that much fitter than you”

“even just going high to Elite 29% difference in relative risk”

“if you want to go from below average to high so now you're going from say the second quartile to the third quartile it's a 100% difference in Risk it's a doubling of the risk of death for that coming decade”

“keep in mind even tiny little jumps um you know say moving from uh the uh second quartile to the third quartile will still have uh easily a 50 to 75% um uh improvement in in all-c cause mortality.”

“Even tiny little jumps, you know, say moving from uh the uh second quartile to the third quartile will still have uh easily a 50 to 75% um uh improvement in in all-c cause mortality.”