Lactate is a by-product of cellular metabolism at all exercise intensities, even at rest. As your exercise intensity
increases, eventually your body is not able to deliver enough oxygen to the working cells to keep up with demand.
It is at this point that cellular lactate levels begin to rise.
Once your intensity surpasses your body's
ability to manage and clear cellular lactate, it begins to build up in your muscles and eventually spills into your blood
stream. This "spillover" is a marker of increasingly anaerobic metabolism at the cellular level.
Most folks refer to this zone of exercise intensity as the lactate threshold.
I am able to directly
observe your blood lactate levels and correlate them with cycling power output and heart heart rate simultaneously.
With this information, you can train at exactly the correct intensity to improve your threshold heart
rate and power output. It is threshold power, or sustainable effort at high intensity, that is the best predictor of
performance. If your training is consistently at too high of an intensity, power output and heart rate response do not
change, because the body is simply trying to keep up with your perfomance demands Train too easy, and there is not enough
stimulus to improve function or output.
The test takes about an hour to complete, and will arm you with information
that you need to take your training to the next level!
Call or email today to make your appointment.
