Lactate Threshold Training

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Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-05-31
Publisher(s): HUMAN KINETICS PUBLISHERS
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Summary

Whether you're a runner, skier, cyclist, triathlete, or rower, as an endurance athlete you need to race and train as fast as possible without hitting the wall from high levels of lactic acid in your bloodstream. Elite athletes and coaches know that increasing lactate threshold is essential to success. Now you can use this knowledge to push your performance to the limit.Lactate Threshold Trainingis an advanced training guide to help you improve endurance performance. This innovative book explains the theory behind the training and presents practical programs to improve your lactate threshold and race faster than ever before. The book also includes discussion on the use of EPO and the struggle against doping in endurance sports.Many elite athletes and coaches are using this innovative concept in their training. The book includes: - heart-rate based training programs, - tests for self-assessment of lactate threshold, - scientific guidelines to avoid overtraining, - advice on nutrition, and - workout examples of elite endurance athletes.Author Peter Janssen, MD, is recognized as one of the pioneers in lactate threshold training. Dr. Janssen has put together this complete and comprehensive training manual through research, training, and testing of elite endurance athletes. If you want to take your endurance performance to the limit, this is one book you won't want to miss.

Table of Contents

Preface vi
Key vii
Energy
1(24)
Energy systems
Energy stores
Types of muscle fibers
Targeted training
Heart Rate
25(40)
Counting the heart rate
Maximum heart rate
Conconi's method
Factors influencing heart rate
The Deflection Point
65(42)
Conconi's test
Astrand test
Maximal test
Finding the deflection point
Individual anaerobic threshold test
Lactate
107(44)
The lactate curve
Blood lactate measurement
Practical applications of the lactate test
Overtraining
151(14)
Supercompensation
The lactate paradox
Causes of overtraining
Some specific health problems
Circulation
165(10)
The heart
The heart minute volume
Stroke volume
The sports heart
Blood Levels
175(30)
Characteristics of blood
Decrease in oxygen transport
Optimizing oxygen transport
Hematocrit
Nutrition
205(24)
Energy
Sources of energy
Nutrition for endurance sports
Energy consumption for events
Fluid and endurance sports
Heart Rate Patterns
229(56)
Lactate determination
Comparisons of performance capacity
Heart rate patterns of various workouts
Epilogue 285(3)
Glossary 288(3)
Bibliography 291(6)
Index 297(6)
About the Author 303

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