Measure BOLT The Body Oxygen Level Test (BOLT) The Oxygen Advantage ® By Patrick McKeown Measure BOLT Now As far back as 1975, researchers noted that the length of time of a comfortable breath hold served as a simple test to determine relative breathing volume during rest and breathlessness during physical exercise. 1,2 The Body Oxygen Level Test (BOLT) is a very useful and accurate tool for determining this relative breathing volume. The ideal BOLT score for a healthy individual is 40 seconds....