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Vo2 Max vs Lactate Threshold Training - ICON Nutrition

Vo2 Max vs Lactate Threshold Training

Vo2 Max by definition is the maximum or optimum rate at which the heart, lungs, and muscles can effectively use oxygen during exercise, used as a way of measuring a person’s individual aerobic capacity. It is therefore often seen that if you improve a persons VO2 max you will also increase that persons Aerobic Fitness Levels. After all the more oxygen your body can take in and utilise the more efficient you are going to be aerobically. This makes sense! Then we have what is called Lactate. Now everyone has heard of lactic acid and most have experienced the consequences of it, the horrible...

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