As a student competing in track and field at his Parlier high school, Robert Leija was obsessed with how to improve his performance, and in particular, prevent the buildup of lactic acid in his ...

A research team led by Prof. Chen Yan and Prof. Yang Lifeng from the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health of the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed a physiological function of monocarboxylate ...

Lactate has taken a beating over the years. Blamed for soreness, fatigue, and that jelly-leg feeling after a brutal set. We’ve all heard the myth: "Your legs are toast because of lactic acid." Wrong.

Lactate is a byproduct of exercise and metabolism, fueling our brain when oxygen is limited. More recently, scientists have become aware of the many roles it plays in developing our nervous system.

Alan Walker receives core research funding from the Scottish Government’s Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division (RESAS). He also works on research projects funded by the UKRI ...

Back in 2021, cycling’s international governing body, the UCI, issued a new set of rules banning the use of devices measuring “any metabolic values such as but not limited to glucose or lactate” in ...

If you’ve read even a small amount of running research, you’ll likely have come across the term ‘lactate threshold’. But what does it actually mean? In essence, your lactate threshold is the point at ...

Besides sore quads and chafe marks, most new runners have one thing in common: confusion over the term “lactate threshold pace.” It pops up in training plans next to “easy effort” (self-explanatory) ...

Runners throw around the term “tempo run” like confetti. It’s confusing, even for well seasoned athletes, because it’s not a cut-and-dried definition like a lactate threshold workout. In order to make ...