Lactate threshold heart rate question

Your reference to Canova does me no favors, for he knowingly (or unknowingly) was involved with training doped athletes, while saying EPO was not advantageous to highly trained athletes.

No, it doesn't. Elite endurance athletes are more energy efficient. You don't understand this principle.

Hold on there. You're being disingenuous. Renato is sometimes wrong about Lactate Kinetics and Oxygen Kinetics, but he has insights that few possess.

‘Insights’ from coaching highly-trained doped athletes training at altitude?

If he was so insightful, why did he say EPO is of no advantage to such athletes?

1 ) never written absolute value, but variable.
have you ever studied statistics? do you know arithmetic or geometric mean value and tails of a curve??? Obvious I refer to a champion of athletes of the highest level and career.
2) VDOT is highly imprecise because it uses a formula that makes everything homogeneous in each area, and makes everything descend from VO2 Max, while each athlete has hois variable characteristics for each area and you need many more points to illustrate all his characteristics. The graph in the figure indicates a 1500 meter athlete. If was he an athlete with the main attitude in the middle of those values? for example with prinicipale attitude 5000 meters? Not enough a single graph...

It's of no advantage to anyone with healthy erythropoiesis.

Elite Kenyans don't have superior aerobic metabolism. They have superior oxygen economy.

I have made a study on the technical differences of run between Africans and Europeans, it is true there are differences, I can deepen if you are interesting.
But the Africans made the great leap in quality, massively, numerically, when in Africa came european coaches and europen managers...

So you would say EPO is of no advantage to a multiple-2:04-marathon-winner?? Then such athlete was confused in taking it? The benefits were just a placebo effect?

I agree here that VDot values are not optimal, but on the other hand they provide a good ballpark were you are.

Even better is to use the critical velocity concept. As critical velocity is a real metabolic threshold. TH60 (often called Lactate threshold) is not a real metabolic threshold, it is an arbitrary threshold. MLSS is better, but his definition is also arbitrary.

Yes. Have you ever stopped to question strange dogma long enough to really think about what is being proposed?

I stated what I thought he proposed, but if you think it was something else, let’s hear it.