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Name: Blood Lactate Threshold Test Procedures
Uploaded: 2019-01-14T05:13:00-06:00
Channel: Drew Friestedt
Description: What is Lactate Threshold, how it is used in endurance sports such as cycling and triathlon, and what are the test procedures.

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Blood Lactate Threshold Test Procedures

How to, TrainingBy Drew Friestedt January 14, 2019 Leave a comment

Blood Lactate Threshold Explained Lactate Threshold is one of the useful measures for determining exercise intensity for training and racing in endurance sports. It can also be used to track fitness gains over time. Your muscles produce lactate all the time, even at rest (baseline level is between 0.8-1.5 mMol/L). During power exercises such as sprinting, when the…

Functional Threshold Power (FTP) Quick Guide

Training, ZwiftBy Coach Theia January 8, 2019 Leave a comment

What is FTP? Perhaps the most popular definition of Functional Threshold Power (FTP) is “the highest power a rider can maintain in a quasi-steady state without fatiguing. It is an estimate of the power output that corresponds most closely with the maximal metabolic steady state or metabolic control limit, or what is more commonly referred to…