Details about lactate testing with indoor rowing and other cross training exercises

Hi

Truely, I use the lactate testing in a very simple way.

First the goal is to figure out what lactate the athlete pushes for long distance work and then the target heart rate will be adjusted.

Secondly lactate testing is used to determine if the method of training keeps positively developing the aerobic capacity.

When cross training is part of an exercise program it is very useful to check lactate levels for long distance training for those different forms of exercises and adjust the heart rate accordingly.

Other details are:

If you are on the atkins diet you produce less lactic acid during long distance steady state, interesting effect, but I will not try it again...

If you did a hard weight lifting session, you will have a higher rest lactate level the day after and as long as you feel tender muscles.

If you are slightly sick, without even feeling symptoms, your lactate levels will be higher rapidly.

As for Doug's results the last three made sense the others not.

Resting lactate can be below 0.8. Usually it ranges from "lo" to 1.4. When you start rowing steadily it is not unusual to drop lactate level under the rest level. When we do nothing we tend to not use much aerobic energy.

The story could go on...

XENO

Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.