Lactate Threshold Blood Testing

vykkio

Is there any value in blood lactate threshold testing? I had a blood lactate test done earlier in the season and found that my HR at LT on my run test last week was much higher than my HR at LT on my blood test.

Coach Rich

Vicki, we had a good discussion here: http://members.endurancenation.us/Community/Forums/tabid/101/aff/24/aft/3713/afv/topic/afnp/50823/Default.aspx

In my opinion...no, there isn't much value in lab testing, for a number of reasons.

tgarson

Vicki,

Here's a bit more in depth information from what I posted a snippet on in the other thread:

http://physfarm.com/new/?page_id=511

Here's the takeaway:

So, you may now be asking yourself, “Why should we even worry about lactate?” The answer is, we shouldn’t! I encourage my athletes and students to stop thinking in terms of lactate. Everyone does it, because it is so easy to measure. However, as you can see, it is really just a very indirect market of some much more important / interesting stuff that is going on in the body, most of which is not easy to measure without expensive gea