lactate levels?

[Tuckerman]

How can I reduce my lactate levels?

[Vinman]

I think training will reduce the amount of lactate your body will produce??? Not 100% sure on that. But you can train your body to handle more lactate by doing some training just under and just above your lactae threshold by doing interval work.

[frozenwater]

quit nursing?

[Froman]

First, figure out your Lactate Threshold (LT), then start doing invervals - 4 x 20 min, 15 min break between. Keep your heart rate in range between your LT and 10-15 bpm above your LT.

[Tuckerman]

First, figure out your Lactate Threshold (LT),

Is this hard to do?

[snowsprite]

quit nursing?

Bwa!!!

Sprite

[Froman]

Not hard, but it can be expensive. I've done it a few ways - both on a bike.

First, locate a PT clinic that specializes in Sports Medicine - find out if they can do a Lactate Threshold test. It'll probably cost $100 - $200 (just a guess - call them to find out). They can do the most accurate test - in my case, I road my bike on a trainer that progressively increased resistance - they drew blood every minute or two to measure the lactate levels in my system. A spike in lactic acid indicated my LT (the effort level at which my body could no longer flush lactic acid).

The other way - which I believe is very accurate. You could probably figure out how to do it on a treadmill, but I'll explain it using a bike. First, find someone that has a computrainer. Create a program that increases the resistance by 10% every minute. Start riding, and keep your speed above 17 MPH - if you drop below 17, test is over. Have someone record your HR every 15 sec. When you hit your LT, your HR actually drops a few BPM, then spikes up. The person recording your HR will be able to identify it. Example - in my test, when I was in my LT range, my BPM record like this: 173, 175, 176, 175, 179, 179, 180. My LT was 175 - and in the docs office, with the blood test, they identified my LT as 178. If that doesn't make sense, shoot me a PM and I'll try to do a better job of explaining.

You could do a similar test on a treadmill by determining a certain pace that you must keep, and every minute increase your grade by 10%.

The last way to do it is go out for a ride by yourself, and ride a timetrial pace - your LT is the most effort your body can sustain, so whatever your HR is during a TT, that is probably your LT.

hope that helps.

[Tuckerman]

Not hard, but it can be expensive. I've done it a few ways - both on a bike.

First, locate a PT clinic that specializes in Sports Medicine - find out if they can do a Lactate Threshold test. It'll probably cost $100 - $200 (just a guess - call them to find out). They can do the most accurate test - in my case, I road my bike on a trainer that progressively increased resistance - they drew blood every minute or two to measure the lactate levels in my system. A spike in lactic acid indicated my LT (the effort level at which my body could no longer flush lactic acid).

The other way - which I believe is very accurate. You could probably figure out how to do it on a treadmill, but I'll explain it using a bike. First, find someone that has a computrainer. Create a program that increases the resistance by 10% every minute. Start riding, and keep your speed above 17 MPH - if you drop below 17, test is over. Have someone record your HR every 15 sec. When you hit your LT, your HR actually drops a few BPM, then spikes up. The person recording your HR will be able to identify it. Example - in my test, when I was in my LT range, my BPM record like this: 173, 175, 176, 175, 179, 179, 180. My LT was 175 - and in the docs office, with the blood test, they identified my LT as 178. If that doesn't make sense, shoot me a PM and I'll try to do a better job of explaining.

You could do a similar test on a treadmill by determining a certain pace that you must keep, and every minute increase your grade by 10%.

The last way to do it is go out for a ride by yourself, and ride a timetrial pace - your LT is the most effort your body can sustain, so whatever your HR is during a TT, that is probably your LT.

hope that helps.

That helps a ton thanks man.

[XtrPickels]

two words:
Bicarbonate Loading

[TeleMang]

I still struggle with this. But the one thing that helped the most was...

[irul&ublo]

Is lactate anything like HotTate?