What's so special about threshold pace? I can do a lot more volume each week at tempo (probably double the amount or more).
What's so special about threshold pace? I can do a lot more volume each week at tempo (probably double the amount or more).
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Threshold is overrated
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Tempo pace is the first lactate turnpoint. It improves the threshold at which you begin to use more carbs than fats for fuel. In other words, you can utilize fat at higher intensities. This threshold is most important for the marathon because the more aerobically efficient you are, the more carb-sparing occurs. Additionally, the more delay there is in your first lactate turnpoint, the longer you can sustain a high percentage of your VO2max, which is also essential to the marathon.
Threshold is the second lactate turnpoint. It trains your body to metabolize high concentrations of lactate at high intensities of running, most important for half marathon and under.
If you do lots of tempo running, will your second lactate turnpoint improve? Yes, up to a certain extent, but what mostly improves is the first lactate turnpoint. If you want to race the shorter distances, the second lactate turnpoint is far more important. You can still handle a lot of volume at that intensity, too, as long as you’re breaking it up into intervals.
Appreciation?? wrote:
Tempo pace is the first lactate turnpoint. It improves the threshold at which you begin to use more carbs than fats for fuel. In other words, you can utilize fat at higher intensities. This threshold is most important for the marathon because the more aerobically efficient you are, the more carb-sparing occurs. Additionally, the more delay there is in your first lactate turnpoint, the longer you can sustain a high percentage of your VO2max, which is also essential to the marathon.
Threshold is the second lactate turnpoint. It trains your body to metabolize high concentrations of lactate at high intensities of running, most important for half marathon and under.
If you do lots of tempo running, will your second lactate turnpoint improve? Yes, up to a certain extent, but what mostly improves is the first lactate turnpoint. If you want to race the shorter distances, the second lactate turnpoint is far more important. You can still handle a lot of volume at that intensity, too, as long as you’re breaking it up into intervals.
Thanks. Finally someone takes the time to explain something on this worthless forum.
Appreciation?? wrote:
Tempo pace is the first lactate turnpoint. It improves the threshold at which you begin to use more carbs than fats for fuel. In other words, you can utilize fat at higher intensities. This threshold is most important for the marathon because the more aerobically efficient you are, the more carb-sparing occurs. Additionally, the more delay there is in your first lactate turnpoint, the longer you can sustain a high percentage of your VO2max, which is also essential to the marathon.
Threshold is the second lactate turnpoint. It trains your body to metabolize high concentrations of lactate at high intensities of running, most important for half marathon and under.
If you do lots of tempo running, will your second lactate turnpoint improve? Yes, up to a certain extent, but what mostly improves is the first lactate turnpoint. If you want to race the shorter distances, the second lactate turnpoint is far more important. You can still handle a lot of volume at that intensity, too, as long as you’re breaking it up into intervals.
Tempo is used colloquially to mean anything faster than easy pace and doesn't really have a strict definition by consensus. The way you're using it most people would probably call some variation of steady state / LT1 / aerobic or ventilatory threshold, etc.
I guess at the end of the day there's no point in being picky about terminology but it would be nice if we could all agree upon our wording...