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	VO2 Max (Protocollo di Bruce)	Potenza Critica (Monod)	Soglia del Lattato (OBLA)
Campo	Scienze dello sport	Scienze dello sport	Scienze dello sport
Famiglia	Hypothesis test	Hypothesis test	Hypothesis test
Anno di origine	1963	1965	1973
Ideatore	Robert Bruce	Henry Monod	Klaus Wasserman
Tipo	graded maximal exercise test	power-duration model	incremental blood sampling test
Fonte seminale	Bruce, R. A. (1963). Evaluation of functional capacity and exercise tolerance of cardiac patients. Modern Concepts of Cardiovascular Disease, 32(4), 1-4.	Monod, H., & Scherrer, J. (1965). The work capacity of a synergic muscular group. Ergonomics, 8(3), 329-338.	Wasserman, K., Whipp, B. J., Koyal, S. N., & Beaver, W. L. (1973). Anaerobic threshold and respiratory gas exchange during exercise. Journal of Applied Physiology, 35(2), 236-243.
Alias	maximal aerobic capacity, aerobic power, cardiorespiratory fitness	CP model, power-duration relationship, anaerobic capacity, critical torque	OBLA, anaerobic threshold, lactate turnpoint, maximal lactate steady state
Correlati	5	5	5
Sintesi	VO2 max represents the maximum amount of oxygen a person can utilize during intense exercise, measured in millilitres of oxygen per kilogram of body weight per minute (ml/kg/min). Developed by Robert Bruce in 1963, the Bruce Protocol is a graded maximal exercise test on a motorized treadmill that incrementally increases speed and incline until the subject reaches volitional exhaustion. This test is a gold standard in clinical and sports medicine for assessing cardiorespiratory fitness and aerobic capacity.	Critical power (CP) is the highest power output that can be sustained indefinitely without fatigue, representing the boundary between sustainable and unsustainable exercise. Introduced by Henry Monod and Scherrer in 1965, the critical power model describes the hyperbolic relationship between power output and time-to-exhaustion. The model partitions work capacity into two components: critical power (the aerobic ceiling) and anaerobic work capacity (the maximal work that can be performed above critical power before depletion). This framework is widely used in exercise physiology, sports science, and occupational biomechanics.	Lactate threshold, also termed the onset of blood lactate accumulation (OBLA), is the exercise intensity at which blood lactate concentration increases rapidly and non-linearly. Initially defined by Klaus Wasserman in 1973, the concept describes the physiological transition from aerobic to anaerobic metabolism. As exercise intensity increases, lactate production and clearance remain balanced until a critical threshold is exceeded, after which lactate rapidly accumulates in the blood, signaling a shift toward anaerobic energy pathways. This parameter is crucial in endurance sports and clinical exercise assessment.