During Real Madrid's fourth day of pre-season, Carlo Ancelotti's players completed demanding high-intensity physical training wearing COSMED K5 metabolic system. The assessment was conducted by O2Up, a team of experts in Professional Training and Functional Evaluation.⠀⠀⠀To determine players cardiovascular fitness and performance capacity (VO2Max), the test intensity was progressively increased...

Derek Ferley, Avera Sport Science and Research Director, explains how a metabolic assessment with COSMED K5 can help people customize their own health and training plans. When it comes to health and fitness, we all need something different. What works for one person may not work for others.People respond very quickly to certain types of training, other people don’t respond at all, other people...

Northern Arizona's Biomechatronics engineers are conducting a study on Wearable Robots to help kids with cerebral palsy walk. Dr. Zach Lerner is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering. His team is doing a study to develop robots that assist children with varying degrees of walking impairment due to cerebral palsy. During the study process, COSMED K5 is used to measure how much energy...

BillaTraining relied on COSMED K5 to assess and train Marc Batard, World Recordman of the ascent of Everest, without oxygen, in less than 24 hours. The French mountaineer will take up a new challenge in 2022: climb Everest again, but this time at 70! Marc Batard, during his exceptional career, noted the lack of training at very high altitude for mountain professionals. In his opinion this is...