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Lactate threshold

Meaning in sports & fitness, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In sports & fitness, lactate threshold means: The exercise intensity at which lactate begins to build up faster in the blood than the body can clear it.

In Turkish: laktat eşiği

How it is used

Used in endurance training and physiology to guide pacing and workout design. Common with testing, improve, threshold pace, and heart rate.

Example sentences

  1. After the lab test, her coach adjusted marathon pace sessions to sit just below her lactate threshold.

    Here the term marks an intensity boundary used to set sustainable but demanding training speeds for endurance work.

  2. The article explained that raising lactate threshold can help cyclists hold a harder effort for longer during climbs.

    In this example, it refers to a performance marker linked to how long an athlete can sustain high intensity.

Common collocations

  • lactate threshold test
  • raise lactate threshold
  • lactate threshold pace
  • lactate threshold heart rate
  • enduranceThe ability to keep up physical effort for a long time without tiring, important in sports like running, cycling, swimming and rowing.
  • heart rateThe number of times your heart beats per minute (bpm), used to measure how hard the body is working during exercise and at rest.

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