VIDEO: Lactate Threshold Lab Testing - Part 2

In this second part, AJ will show you how your training pace and heart rate training zones are setup from the results of your lactate threshold test.

Filmed at: Boulder Center for Sports Medicine
Analysis by: Neal Henderson

In part one, AJ did a lactate and VO2 Max test on a treadmill.  In this second part, a lactate profile is generated from which one will get your training heart-rate zones and your pace zones to then start a training plan from.

• Discussion of your lactate curve
• The lactate threshold point
• Lactate and heart-rate curve
• How different should the run and bike lactate threshold points be?
• Training zones derived from the lactate threshold point and a discussion of the zones.
• Discussion of VO2 Max and what factors contribute to it (genetics, fitness)
• Peak lactate, peak heart rate and what it means
• Comparison of two lactate threshold tests nine months apart

Don't have the money for a lab test?  You can also perform your own lactate threshold field test to determine your training zones.