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#41 - Zone 2 training: why all the talk? With Dr Andrew Coggan

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The Different Definitions of Lactate Levels

The onset of blood lactate accumulation is defined as four millibolar. Obla four millimolar is the average lactate concentration across various runners, swimmers, rowers and cyclists. For cyclists, these trained cyclists quite typically maximal lactate steady state corresponds to a blood lactate concentration of maybe seven millimolar. So yeah, back to the 40 kilometer TT, your average well-trained cyclist is probably just sitting there at seven milliolar for the duration of the event.

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