One of the best measures of running fitness is lactate threshold (LT), which is the running speed or heart rate at which lactate — an intermediate product of aerobic metabolism in the muscles — begins ...

Cardiorespiratory fitness is important for health and key to athletic performance. We offer three types of aerobic fitness testing to let you know where you stand and help you make health and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. woman on a treadmill doing a lactate threshold test During intense or prolonged exercise, muscles can feel like they’re burning ...

Swimmers often encounter lactate sets throughout their training, yet several misconceptions exist about the body’s production of lactic acid and experiences of fatigue. Let’s start off with getting ...

When runners talk physiology, two terms tend to dominate the conversation: VO2 max and lactate threshold. Although the two metrics are related, they are not the same – and they shape performance in ...

Conner Mantz crushed the 2025 Boston Marathon with a personal best time of 2:05.08—just off the podium in fourth place! Meanwhile Jess McClain, the top American woman, came in at 2:22:43 for seventh ...

If you’ve read even a small amount of running research, you’ll likely have come across the term ‘lactate threshold’. But what does it actually mean? In essence, your lactate threshold is the point at ...

If there is one stat that every cyclist wants to know, it’s their “VO2max.” Just what does this secret number mean? And more importantly, why is it a pretty near meaningless red herring, and what ...

FLC exercise science teams up with Durango Nordic Ski Club On a bluebird Saturday in Southwest Colorado, Durango Nordic Ski Club joined forces with the Fort Lewis College exercise science department ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba identified a previously unconfirmed gas exchange threshold in rats and demonstrated that this threshold, together with the lactate threshold, serves as an ...

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