Maximum oxygen uptake is what the Cooper test measures
Joes way of hanging out with the wrong people can be a big factor of the problem with his substance addiction
That is because there must be perfect equalibrium between the body. It's like the fosbury flop, which was a why of high jumping that would allow high jumpers to "cheat" physics and leave equalibrium for short periods of time. If something goes up, something else must go down, this is a general rule becuase if it isn't true you would start floating out of the water