While preparing myself to defend my statement, I found one cause of confusion.acoggan said:Should I change that to "no self-respecting scientist"?
Seriously, I would assume that most people publishing in the field of exercise science/physiology would be aware of the difference between LT and OBLA. If you can point to a reference indicating otherwise, I might be able to ascertain the reason for the authors' unusual use of terminology.
Most references I saw to LT defined as being 4.0 mmol/L also use the little word "The" (or "This") in front of LT. They probably mean "The 4.0 mmol lactate threshold" implying that there's indeed an other lactate threshold.
Here's an example :
orand to compare the physiological responses corresponding to the workload at D-max with those at the traditional 4.0 mml l lactate threshold
http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0967-3334/18/2/005
Though I found a lot of occurences where authors use the term anaerobic threshold refering to OBLAcorresponding with this 4-mmol l–1 lactate threshold
http://www.springerlink.com/content/6apqp991tmvrmayr/
Such as in
orAnaerobic threshold, also termed 4.0 mmol.l-1 threshold (AT4), and individual anaerobic threshold (IAT), presumably indicate the workload corresponding to maximal lactate steady state (MLSS) during an incremental workload test
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/...ool=iconabstr&query_hl=19&itool=pubmed_DocSum
These findings suggest that hyperoxia may raise the lactate accumulation threshold, also known as the anaerobic threshold (AT).
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/...ool=iconabstr&query_hl=19&itool=pubmed_DocSum
Believe me the list is very long.
I find the use of anaerobic threshold to define OBLA unfortunate as it creates a confusion between anaerobic threshold and individual anaerobic threshold, which better describes maxlass really.