hey all
i have a question about my lactate threshold heartrate. A year ago I bought a book about cycling training in which the concept of lactate threshold heartrate was explained. I was stated that one's LTHR is calculated as 91% of the maximum heartrate. After a few tests which I did I could relatively be sure that my maximum heartrate was 194, and my LTHR would than have to be 177 (91% of MHR). I used these numbers to base my trainings on.
However a few weeks ago I bought Joe Friels training bible in which it was stated that LTHR varies enormously among individuals. So for some the LTHR is 80% of MHR, and for others LTHR is 96% of MHR.
I recalculated my LTHR using Friel's approach and came up with an LTHR of 159.
My questions are:
- Could my LTHR have lowered through training? I read somewhere that this happens because your body becomes more efficient, however I think this is weird because you actually become anaerobic more easilly.
- Friel states that cyclists which have anaerobic edurance times of above 5 minutes are classified as "excellent". The weird thing is that outside on the road wearing my heart rate monitor I could sustain intervals of 40 minutes, with an average HR of 177, so far above both calculated LTHR??? what's going on here?
thanks already
i have a question about my lactate threshold heartrate. A year ago I bought a book about cycling training in which the concept of lactate threshold heartrate was explained. I was stated that one's LTHR is calculated as 91% of the maximum heartrate. After a few tests which I did I could relatively be sure that my maximum heartrate was 194, and my LTHR would than have to be 177 (91% of MHR). I used these numbers to base my trainings on.
However a few weeks ago I bought Joe Friels training bible in which it was stated that LTHR varies enormously among individuals. So for some the LTHR is 80% of MHR, and for others LTHR is 96% of MHR.
I recalculated my LTHR using Friel's approach and came up with an LTHR of 159.
My questions are:
- Could my LTHR have lowered through training? I read somewhere that this happens because your body becomes more efficient, however I think this is weird because you actually become anaerobic more easilly.
- Friel states that cyclists which have anaerobic edurance times of above 5 minutes are classified as "excellent". The weird thing is that outside on the road wearing my heart rate monitor I could sustain intervals of 40 minutes, with an average HR of 177, so far above both calculated LTHR??? what's going on here?
thanks already