What's the difference?
What's the difference?
simple:
Aerobic Threshold (AeT) is the point at which you stop deriving 100% of your energy needs from aerobic metabolism. Anerobic threshold (AT) is the point at which lactact production exceeds removal and you see a spike in lactic acid values.
hope this helps
jT
There was a very nice and quite long post on this by Renato Canova a while back (several months). I have been looking/searching for it but can't seem to find it. I read it halfway and then lost it. It (iin my view) provides a very interesting insight into this question. Could anyone post it again please.
Nice job!
Thanks that makes sense. For base building, how important is it to remain at or below AeT? Is it okay to go over once per week (or twice per week)? Does the AeT pace correlate with approximately 75% of Maximum Heart Rate? For me, 75% MHR feels like very gentle running, although my pace at that HR is very slow (like 9 min./mile). By just running volume at that HR, eventually my pace will get faster (and consequently all higher HR paces)?Thank you and Best Regards...
jtupper-ware wrote:
simple:
Aerobic Threshold (AeT) is the point at which you stop deriving 100% of your energy needs from aerobic metabolism. Anerobic threshold (AT) is the point at which lactact production exceeds removal and you see a spike in lactic acid values.
hope this helps
jT
AeT will change as your fitness improves, provided you are training to improve your aerobic fitness. It might be roughly 75-80% HRmax if you have poor aerobic conditioning, but you should be able to get it much closer to 88-90% of HRmax if you work on getting it there. That means gradually and progressively working with higher and higher ranges of HR as you lock in your ability to run aerobically at those HRs.
I found my pace dropping off at 80% HRmax early in the year, but today I can run 85-88% HRmax all day at constant pace, and I think I'm pretty close to having 88-90% locked in (a few more weeks), which is when I'll believe I'm ready to run a marathon.