Lactic Acid is Fuel not Foe!

[ricepower]

This strength section seems to be the most appropriate to put things regarding general fitness training, so I thought Id stick this here.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/16/healt ... .html?_r=2

I was just about to get into more endurance related activities and had absorbed the belief about working under lactic threshold from everything Ive read/seen before. I get lactic burn pretty quickly and keeping under it would make me a pretty lousy performer. It is liberating to find out Lactic Acid is actually Fuel!

[doit]

Great article! That was a interesting read, thanks for sharing.
Weird scientist didn't take the coaches experience into calculation when coaches found out that athletes performance increased by working with endurance over the lactic acid threshold, until now.

[DJJ]

Lol, anyone who paid attention in high school knows that and now professionals need some kind of dr. to find out about the oh so revealing truth? Hahaha, just hahaha. I guess the quality if articles is going down by the minute. Don't read stuff on the internet kiddo's, it's bad for ya.

[ricepower]

Damn, nytimes have made the article for members only now.

No matters, this article is better anyway:

http://www.physorg.com/news64680736.html

[NotNowChief]

Yeah I thought aussie swimmers had known that for decades. They cottoned on when some of the best swimmers kept returning higher lactic acid readings than average swimmers.

[keyboardworkout]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081120171325.htm

That article seems to confuse the issue even more.

[ricepower]

I wouldnt worry about that unless you actually have tumours.