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Is that true? Back when I was a crew gremlin, my VO2 max as measured via erging was off the charts. But I could apply that cardio capacity to things like running/biking/swimming pretty effectively.

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There's famous studies about people testing VO2 max with one leg trained exercises,then looking at VO2 max with non-trained leg.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1748-1716.1976...

It's true in the sense that you'll be better optimized towards the activities you train in most intensely in regularly, but you do develop transferable gains as well. It's just not 100% transferable.

I think the GP's comment is just easy to misread.

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