Research can be hard, exhausting even. It can push us to our limits. Mike Del Giudice is working hard on the VO2max test, which gives researchers insight into the health and wellness of participants. Whether you are trying to establish baseline characteristics of an individual, or monitor their changes in cardio respiratory fitness over the course of an intervention, VO2max testing is the gold standard of fitness testing in the field of exercise physiology.
Submission Year:
2017-18
Photographer's affiliation:
Graduate student
Academic areas:
Arts and Science
Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs
Art of Research categories:
Art in action
Photo:
![Pushing Limits An athlete attached to equipment to test vitals](https://www.queensu.ca/research/sites/all/modules/contrib/lazyloader/image_placeholder.gif)
Categories:
Faculty of Arts and Science
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies
School of Graduate Studies
Health, Wellness and the Determinants of Human Health
Patient-Oriented Research, Transformative Health Care and Health Promotion
Location of photograph:
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen's University
Photographer's name:
Madison Robertson
Display Photographers Affiltion + Faculty or Department:
Graduate Student, Kinesiology and Health Studies