Find Your Lactate Threshold

Find Your Lactate Threshold

What's that you may be asking? LT is the point at which lactic acid accumulates in your blood faster than your body can process it—causing a drop in performance.

• Training below your LT builds aerobic capacity.
• Training above it builds speed.

How to determine your LT: (1) Warm up, 10 minutes. (2) With a heart-rate monitor on, run or cycle on a flat course as fast as you can for 30 minutes.(3) Your LT is your average heart rate for that period.