VO2 Max Testing Clinics
A VO2 max test measures the most oxygen your body can use during hard exercise, the fitness number most strongly tied to long-term health. 35 clinics in this directory list VO2 Max Testing, across 32 cities.
Facts on this page are checked against each clinic's own website. Oldest check: 24 August 2026. 25 of the 35 listed have been checked so far.
AYUN
Zurich · Switzerland
AYUN is a longevity clinic in Zurich listing VO2 max testing, DEXA scans, biological age testing and biomarker panels.
Ayusya Clinic
Eemnes, Utrecht · Netherlands
Eemnes longevity clinic since 2010: EUR 375 first consult, DNA and epigenetic biological-age testing, hormone therapy, red light and IHHT.
Biograph - New York City
New York, NY · United States
Biograph - New York City is a longevity clinic listing full-body MRI, VO2 max testing, DEXA scans and biomarker panels.
Biograph - San Francisco Bay Area
San Mateo, CA · United States
Biograph - San Francisco Bay Area in San Mateo lists 6 longevity services, including full-body MRI, VO2 max testing, DEXA scans and biomarker panels.
Cenegenics - Atlanta
Atlanta, GA · United States
Cenegenics' Atlanta centre: membership-based blood panels, heart and body scans, fitness testing and hormone therapy, led by a centre physician.
Cenegenics - Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills, CA · United States
Membership clinic in Beverly Hills offering physician-led biomarker testing, VO2 max, DEXA body composition, CIMT artery scans and hormone therapy.
Cenegenics - Dallas
Dallas, TX · United States
Dallas membership clinic offering biomarker panels, executive physicals, VO2 max, DEXA scans, heart and brain imaging, and hormone therapy.
Cenegenics Mexico
Mexico City, Ciudad de Mexico · Mexico
Santa Fe arm of the US age-management group, offering DEXA scans, VO2 max testing, biological age tests and NAD+ drips.
Check-Up Center - American Hospital of Paris
Neuilly-sur-Seine · France
Neuilly-sur-Seine check-up unit founded 1991: packages from 1,900 to 4,400 euros, calcium scoring, cardiac and breast screening.
Clinic X
Zurich · Switzerland
Clinic X is a longevity clinic in Zurich listing full-body MRI, VO2 max testing, DEXA scans and biological age testing.
Clinique Printemps
Montreal, Quebec · Canada
Montreal longevity practice offering epigenetic age testing, full-body MRI, hormone mapping and four priced annual programmes.
Fountain Life - Dallas
The Colony, TX · United States
Fountain Life - Dallas is a longevity clinic in The Colony listing full-body MRI, VO2 max testing, DEXA scans and biological age testing. Founded 2020.
Fountain Life - Naples
Naples, FL · United States
Fountain Life Naples is a longevity clinic in Florida offering whole-body MRI, DEXA scans, VO2 max testing and glucose monitoring by annual membership.
Fountain Life - New York
White Plains, NY · United States
Fountain Life - New York is a longevity clinic in White Plains listing full-body MRI, VO2 max testing, DEXA scans and biological age testing. Founded 2020.
Fountain Life - Orlando
Orlando, FL · United States
Fountain Life Orlando offers whole-body and brain MRI, DEXA, VO2 max, genome sequencing and a 100+ marker blood panel on annual membership.
Lifespan Medical
North Vancouver, British Columbia · Canada
North Vancouver private clinic: 70-plus biomarkers, DEXA scans, VO2 max and cancer screening for a published $4,500 a year.
LifespanMD
Ottawa, Ontario · Canada
Ottawa membership clinic built on a two-day wellness assessment with VO2 max testing, DEXA, glucose monitoring and whole-body MRI via Prenuvo.
Longevitas
Rivoli, Turin · Italy
Precision-medicine clinic near Turin: 500-marker check-ups, biological age, VO2 max, IHHT, cryotherapy and red-light photobiomodulation.
Longevity Center
Bari, Apulia · Italy
Diagnostics-led longevity centre in Bari offering telomere and epigenetic biological-age testing, VO2 max and eight IV protocols including NAD+.
Longevity Center Vienna
Vienna, Vienna · Austria
Vienna 1st-district centre: root-cause blood, stool and saliva diagnostics, VO2 max testing, cryotherapy, hyperbaric oxygen and NAD+ infusions.
MD Helix
Los Angeles, CA · United States
MD Helix in Los Angeles lists 9 longevity services, including VO2 max testing, biological age testing, biomarker panels and stem cell therapy.
Medcan
Toronto, Ontario · Canada
Toronto private clinic selling day-long health assessments, longevity biomarker panels, home sleep studies and continuous glucose monitoring.
Privatpraxis am Kosttor
Munich, Bavaria · Germany
Munich private practice with a longevity programme: spiroergometry, CGM glucose sensors, metabolome and hormone testing, NAD+ infusions.
Progevita
Valencia · Spain
Progevita is a longevity clinic in Valencia listing VO2 max testing, biomarker panels, executive physicals and IV vitamin therapy.
Qualevita
Amsterdam · Netherlands
Qualevita is a longevity clinic in Amsterdam listing hormone optimisation (TRT/HRT), biomarker panels and VO2 max testing. No prices published.
Remedy Place
Los Angeles · United States
Remedy Place in Los Angeles lists 6 longevity services, including VO2 max testing, hyperbaric oxygen, NAD+ IV therapy and peptide therapy.
ScanClinic
Houten, Utrecht · Netherlands
Houten diagnostics clinic selling referral-free full-body MRI from EUR 1,200 and a EUR 3,950 Platinum Health day covering 500-plus biomarkers.
SoLongevity Clinic
Milan · Italy
Longevity clinic in central Milan listing DEXA body composition, VO2 max testing, epigenetic biological age and metabolomic panels.
Tamina Health at Grand Resort Bad Ragaz
Bad Ragaz · Switzerland
Residential longevity programmes at a Bad Ragaz clinic-hotel: VO2max testing, DXA scans, blood panels and hyperbaric oxygen, from CHF 9,900.
The London General Practice
London · United Kingdom
The London General Practice is a longevity clinic listing VO2 max testing, biological age testing and biomarker panels.
The Longevity Doctor
London · United Kingdom
The Longevity Doctor is a longevity clinic in London listing VO2 max testing, biological age testing, biomarker panels and hormone optimisation.
Vital Aging Clinic
Noordwijk, South Holland · Netherlands
Noordwijk longevity clinic: extensive medical intake with blood work, VO2 max and body composition, plus DNA, epigenetic and microbiome tests.
VYTA Longevity
Abano Terme, Veneto · Italy
Preventative-medicine centre in Abano Terme with epigenetic biological-age testing, VO2 max, NAD+ infusions and priced multi-day check-up pathways.
Wild Health
Lexington, KY · United States
Wild Health is a longevity clinic in Lexington, KY listing VO2 max testing, DEXA scans, biomarker panels and biological age testing. Membership required.
YEARS Preventive Medicine
Berlin, Berlin · Germany
Berlin clinic selling one-day check-ups from EUR 1,900 to EUR 16,900: whole-body MRI, VO2 max, liquid biopsy and up to 230 biomarkers.
VO2 Max Testing explained
A VO2 max test measures the most oxygen your body can take in and use during hard exercise, expressed as millilitres of oxygen per kilogram of body weight per minute. You run on a treadmill or ride a bike while the workload increases every minute or two, breathing through a mask that measures the air going in and out, until you cannot continue.
Clinics offer it because cardiorespiratory fitness measured this way is one of the strongest predictors of long-term health outcomes in large population studies - stronger than most single blood markers. Our own review of what the number actually means by age and sex is linked below.
A laboratory test is a genuinely different measurement from the VO2 max a watch reports. The watch infers a number from your heart rate and pace; the laboratory measures the gas you breathe out. The two can disagree by a wide margin, and only the measured one is a measurement.
The same test usually produces two extra numbers worth more than the headline: the heart rate and pace at your first ventilatory threshold, the point where breathing starts to climb faster than effort, and at the second, where it climbs steeply again. Those two points are what turn a test into a training plan, because they define the intensity bands people mean by easy and hard.
What it costs
From this directory
Of the 25 priced clinics listing this service, 3 are in the entry band ($), 1 in the mid band ($$), 11 in the upper band ($$$) and 10 in the top band ($$$$). 10 further listings do not publish enough to place. 12 of the 35 require a membership rather than selling services one at a time; the rest can be booked individually.
What you are buying is roughly half equipment and half interpretation. A test on a metabolic cart with a technician and a printout sits at one end. Add a physician present for the electrocardiogram, a full report with training zones, and a follow-up conversation, and it costs more.
Adding a twelve-lead electrocardiogram - a recording of the heart’s electrical activity from twelve angles, supervised by a doctor - turns the test into a cardiopulmonary exercise test and moves it into a clinical price band. That version is the one an insurer might cover if it is investigating a symptom.
University exercise-science departments and endurance-sport laboratories run the same protocol for less than most private clinics, without the medical supervision. If you want the number and the training zones, they are worth checking.
Retests are the point, so ask about the price of the second test before you buy the first.
Who it suits, and who it does not
It suits people who train and want their zones set from measurement rather than a formula, and people who want a hard baseline for cardiorespiratory fitness they intend to move over years.
It suits people less well if they are not going to train afterwards. The test is a maximal effort and it is unpleasant; the number by itself changes nothing.
It is a maximal exercise test, so clinics screen for heart disease, uncontrolled blood pressure and recent illness before running it, and some will require medical clearance or insist on a physician-supervised version. Anyone with a known heart condition should be tested in a clinical setting rather than a gym.
Questions to ask before you book
The answers separate clinics far more reliably than the service list on their website does.
- Is the test physician-supervised, and is an electrocardiogram recorded during it
- Which protocol do you use, and will you use exactly the same one when I retest
- Does the report include my ventilatory thresholds and the heart rate and pace at each
- Do you verify that I actually reached maximum, or is the result an estimate from a submaximal test
- Is the test on a treadmill or a bike, and can I choose the one I actually train on
- What does a retest cost, and how long should I wait before one
What the evidence says
Our own reviews of the research behind this service, written from the published papers and linked to them. They run whether or not the verdict suits the directory.
VO2 Max Testing by city
Where to get it: every city with at least one verified clinic listing this service, most listings first.
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VO2 Max Testing: common questions
What is a good VO2 max?
It depends entirely on age and sex, and a value that is unremarkable for a 25-year-old man can be excellent for a 60-year-old woman. We have a full breakdown by age and sex in the evidence review linked on this page.
How long does a VO2 max test take?
The maximal effort itself is usually eight to fifteen minutes. Allow an hour for the appointment, including fitting the mask, a warm-up, recovery and the explanation afterwards.
Is a watch VO2 max accurate?
It is an estimate from heart rate and pace, not a measurement of the oxygen you use, and it can differ substantially from a laboratory result in either direction. It is useful for tracking your own trend, and unreliable as an absolute number.
How should I prepare for a VO2 max test?
Clinics generally ask for no hard training in the day or two before, no heavy meal in the two to three hours before, no caffeine close to the test, and normal hydration - and then for the same conditions to be repeated at every retest.
What is the difference between a VO2 max test and a cardiopulmonary exercise test?
They are the same exercise protocol. A cardiopulmonary exercise test adds continuous electrocardiogram monitoring and a doctor watching it, which makes it a clinical investigation rather than a fitness measurement.
How often should you retest?
Change takes months, so most people retest every six to twelve months. Testing more often mostly measures how you slept and what you ate.