Where's your LT and does it change?

[rollers]

Stemming from the Training at 90% HRmax thread:

Question:
What is your LT as % of HRmax?

For me it's just a few beats difference.

Does it (LT) move around much in your experience?

 

[2LAP]

Originally posted by rollers
Stemming from the Training at 90% HRmax thread:

Question:
What is your LT as % of HRmax?

For me it's just a few beats difference.

Does it (LT) move around much in your experience?

My LT falls at 150 bpm with my max at 195, so about 77% of max HR.

LT does move around, thats one point of doing some training!

How have you determined where your LT is? Unfortunately for us cyclists that requires a Lab and lactate threhold testing via a ramp protocol and some blood samples. Fortunately for me I work in a lab.

Its unlikely that your LT and MHR is only a few beats difference, something like this is the preserve of very special athletes (and I don't think any cyclists).

Check out this thread...
http://www.cyclingforums.com/t41023.html
and this one...
http://www.cyclingforums.com/t38627.html

 

[rollers]

Thanks. I just had a quick look at those threads. It'll take me a bit to digest them. Great stuff there!

For me the LT appears to be between 85% and 90% of HRmax but I'm the first to admit my training has been anything but scientific to this point. I've now decided to get more methodical about it and have much to learn.

Hopefully a more scientific and methodical approach won't take away too much of the fun in it for me.

As you can imagine I have loads of questions but I'll save them for when I've done the fundamental reading you've suggested.

Thanks a tonne.

 

[2LAP]

Don't worry about access to labs, there are 100's of ways around this. Its just good to understand some of the basic physiological concepts.