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The Science of Fatigue

The Real Science of Sport Podcast

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Lactate and Fatigue

Lactate is produced when we rapidly metabolize glycogen. It facilitates the production of ATP very quickly, and it becomes a fuel source of its own. So then it's released from the muscle where it's taken up and used as fuel elsewhere. Some of them have been wrongly described as waste.

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