My opinion is that if you have to go to Letsrun to figure out how to used blood lactate levels to guide your training, then you probably shouldn't be using blood lactate levels to guide your training.
If you're an elite, you have a coach or sports physiologist doing this for you, and it might help. But if you're just winging it, with a blood machine and lets run threads, it's more likely to mess you up, than help.
If you train at the highest velocity at lactate baseline you recruit the highest amount of slow twitch muscle fibers together with very litte recruitment of fast twitch fibers, as these fibers are generating lactate. On the other side there is also always lactate clearance, as the mitochondria are using lactate as fuel. So even at the highest velocity at lactate baseline there is lactate generation and clearance which means there is already a small amount of fast twitch fibers recruited.
You received too many downvotes for a fairly accurate contribution to this thread, bringing to the discussion what is actually going on at the muscle-fiber level regarding lactate production.
I've gotten a lactate test but I don't really use it for my easy runs. I guess it gives me a rough idea of what pace I should be running but I was already running that pace for easy runs before I got the test.
I think the point you are talking about is the Aerobic Threshold. It's not a specific number like 1.0mmol or 2.0mmol. From what I have read it is typically defined as the first inflection point on the chart. I sit around 1.3-1.4mmol until I hit about 6:00/mile then there is a jump to 1.7. I hit 2.0mmol at about 5:40/mile. I think that first inflection point for me is around 6:20/mile but it doesn't really matter since all my easy runs are slower than that. Typically in the 7-8 min/mile range.
Correct; it is the Aerobic Threshold (aka, LT1). Unfortunately (and exasperatingly) even in the scientific literature, you will sometimes instead see that referred to as the Anaerobic Threshold, and they will call the LT2 (aka Maximal Steady State) the Lactate Turn Point.
My opinion is that if you have to go to Letsrun to figure out how to used blood lactate levels to guide your training, then you probably shouldn't be using blood lactate levels to guide your training.
If you're an elite, you have a coach or sports physiologist doing this for you, and it might help. But if you're just winging it, with a blood machine and lets run threads, it's more likely to mess you up, than help.
A heart rate monitor can be useful in guiding paces (training zones). A lactate meter is overkill, to answer academic questions, and fulfill one’s curiosity.
My opinion is that if you have to go to Letsrun to figure out how to used blood lactate levels to guide your training, then you probably shouldn't be using blood lactate levels to guide your training.
If you're an elite, you have a coach or sports physiologist doing this for you, and it might help. But if you're just winging it, with a blood machine and lets run threads, it's more likely to mess you up, than help.
A heart rate monitor can be useful in guiding paces (training zones). A lactate meter is overkill, to answer academic questions, and fulfill one’s curiosity.
Edit: A lactate meter is overkill, *but can be used to answer academic questions, and fulfill one’s curiosity.
If you train at the highest velocity at lactate baseline you recruit the highest amount of slow twitch muscle fibers together with very litte recruitment of fast twitch fibers, as these fibers are generating lactate. On the other side there is also always lactate clearance, as the mitochondria are using lactate as fuel. So even at the highest velocity at lactate baseline there is lactate generation and clearance which means there is already a small amount of fast twitch fibers recruited.
You received too many downvotes for a fairly accurate contribution to this thread, bringing to the discussion what is actually going on at the muscle-fiber level regarding lactate production.
My feedback is of course based on a lot of experience, studying/reading and also discussions about training with (very) good people. However, a small fraction on Letsrun haven't that knowledge and they don't understand what is written. The vote down themselves :)