Lactate thresholds are extremely helpful when it comes to finding values such as power output, heat rate, and RPE which can then provide a diagnosis for training prescription. In order to find best base training session for endurance athletes such at a cyclist is to determine where the highest constant intensity that can be maintain for the longest without an increase of blood lactate (Faude et al., 2009). Lactate threshold tests are used to prescribe training in order to find the intensity in which a constant blood lactate can be attained. So the appropriate training session for endurance training should be at maximal lactate steady state (MLSS); these have been used to guide training sessions in several endurance sport (Faude et al., 2009).…show more content… Zone 1 is at low intensity and is before the aerobic threshold, zone 2 is at moderate intensity which is achieved after aerobic threshold but before anaerobic threshold. Zone 3 is reached after anaerobic threshold and is high intensity training. In both studies I found that most endurance athletes train at zone 1 intensity more than 70%. Zone 3 is the least endurance athletes train with 8% of athletes training at high intensity. Training in high intensity over 5 months showed smaller performance improvements compare to athletes focusing on low-intensity zone 1 with moderate volumes of zone 3 training (Esteve-Lanao et al., 2007). Training at zone 1 for a longer period of time instead of working for less time at zone 3 works better to simulate a competition. There is a relationship between cumulative training at zone 1 and endurance performance during competition, which are completed at high intensities at 85% of VO2max. (Esteve-Lanao et al., 2005). A mixture of training at zone 1 and zone 3 works well because there is simulation of competition and training improvement but there should be a higher percentage of the training in the low intensity. After the training regimen it is expected to be a downward and right shift of the lactate threshold because there should be improvements. Especially since, there is a specific training prescription to improve the lactate threshold. After a six month period training at minimum speed, the lactate threshold increased by 6.3% and 7.8% increase when expressed as VO2max (Carter et al., 1999). Studies proof that there is improvements in the athlete’s lactate threshold that is caused by training with a purpose to improve lactate threshold. Improving lactate threshold then translates into the competition, which will also show better
