{"id":2645,"date":"2019-01-14T05:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T11:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.endurancelab.fit\/?p=2638"},"modified":"2019-03-09T11:06:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T11:06:44","slug":"blood-lactate-threshold-test-procedures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.360velo.com\/blood-lactate-threshold-test-procedures\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Lactate Threshold Test Procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Blood Lactate Threshold Explained<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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 rate of demand for energy is high, lactate levels rise. There are two levels that occur when lactate levels rise above the baseline, Aerobic and Anaerobic Threshold, as explained in more detail below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aerobic-type training will not help with lactic acid tolerance, however it increases an athlete’s Lactate Threshold. In other words, the body will build a better tolerance to the effects<\/em><\/strong> of lactic acid over time during training. Anaerobic training improves the muscles\u2019 alkaline reserves, allowing the muscles to work in the presence of increased lactic acid. Training at or slightly above the intensity where this occurs improves the Lactate Threshold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n