Cycling Performance Club: Should we be blood lactate testing cyclists?- Part 2
Semi-Pro Cycling
English - October 20, 2021 18:00 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsWilderness Sports cycling podcast pro-cycling podcast cycling hunter allen steve hogg cycling training cycling coach road racing training plans bike coach Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
There’s plenty of information around how to conduct blood lactate tests, but information on why we test blood lactate is often entangled with conflicts of interest. In Part 2 of our blood lactate testing episode, we continue our discussion on whether blood lactate testing is necessary or valuable for training cyclists in 2021 and beyond.
This episode includes alternatives to blood lactate testing, a critical thinking exercise around the claims of blood lactate testing, and our conclusions.
1:00 Reasons for blood lactate testing
8:30 How much does this measure relate to performance?
13:00 Error involved in blood lactate testing
18:40 Do we ever stop using certain tests?
20:45 What are the alternatives?
30:00 Critical thinking exercise
37:50 Is training in more accurate training zones more beneficial?
43:30 Conclusions
This episode’s panel:
Jason Boynton, Ph.D.
boyntoncoaching.com
Damian Ruse
semiprocycling.com
Cyrus Monk
cyclistscientist.com
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Twitter: @cyclingclubpod
References:
Lactate in contemporary biology: a phoenix risen
https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP280955
The maximal metabolic steady state: redefining the ‘gold standard’
https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.14814/phy2.14098