Lactate threshold concepts: How valid are they?

Sports Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 469-490

  Faude, Oliver ^a,b   Kindermann, Wilfried ^b   Meyer, Tim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

AEROBIC CAPACITY; ANAEROBIC CAPACITY; ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DIAGNOSIS; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE TEST; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; REVIEW; RUNNING; SIMULATION; SPORT; STEADY STATE; TRAINING; VALIDITY;

ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE;

EID: 62549092513     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00007256-200939060-00003     Document Type: Review

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