Maximum oxygen uptake was measured on all football players of the Italian national team, during the training sessions in preparation for Euro 2012. The athletes underwent some physical tests wearing the COSMED K4b2 metabolic monitor and mask. The tests included functional assessment by measuring anareobic threshold with the Mognoni test. See the pictures of the tests at the following Facebook...

Gas exchange measurement tests were performed to off-road motorcycle riders at the Motocross Millsaps Training Facility in Cairo, GA (USA). According to Clint from Innovative Performance (the company that managed the tests): "Our main reason for buying the K4 was to have a mobile system that will allow us to test in the lab or 'in the sport'. We don't want to be held back just because our sport...

As a result of the recently completed acquisition of Life Measurement, Inc. (LMI), a leading provider of body composition assessment equipment in infants, children and adults, COSMED USA, Inc. and LMI have merged, with COSMED USA, Inc. as the surviving company. COSMED USA, Inc., and its parent company, COSMED srl, a European company with Headquarters in the province of Rome, Italy, will continue...

COSMED USA, Inc. announces the recently completed acquisition of Life Measurement, Inc. (LMI), a leading provider of body composition assessment equipment in infants, children and adults. LMI develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices designed to provide the most accurate body composition based on Air Displacement Plethysmography technology, considered the “Practical Gold Standard” in...