Measuring VO2 max via gas analysis quantifies overall oxygen consumption but does not directly measure mitochondrial respiration within the muscle.

“if you do mitochondrial respirations so if you take the mitochondri you do a biopsy you take out now the mitochondria and you put it into Chambers specific Chambers is to measure now the mitochondrial respiration we are not talking about 90 milliliters per minute per kilogram anymore we know that already for well for even for Fairly for not well trained athletes you're already at 200 milliliters per minute per kilogram we know that for Elites you are more than three to 5 100 m per minute per kilogram”