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Among the factors that determine your performance are, |
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Your ability to utilise Oxygen in each breath— this is known as your VO2(MAX) generally acknowledged as the principal indicator of your aerobic potential or upper limit to your endurance, |
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The rate at which your muscles can clear Lactate, which causes muscles to fatigue—this is known as your Lactate (also referred to as Anaerobic) Threshold and acts a brake on your ability to achieve your VO2(MAX) |
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If you can increase your VO2MAX
you have the potential to go faster—if you increase your LT/AT you
can use that potential, AND maintain that potential for longer.
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Although both Athlete 1 and Athlete 2
reach VO2 max at a similar running speed, Athlete 1 has a
lactate threshold at 60% and Athlete 2 has a lactate threshold
at 70%. Athlete 1 can maintain a pace of about 12 km/h
compared to Athlete 2’s pace of about
13.7km/h. |
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"Why Hussein
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"In-field"
or Laboratory VO2(MAX) and LT/AT assessment |
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Our technologies can accurately measure
your body's ability to utilise oxygen and eliminate waste CO2,
in real-time, breath by breath as you train or exercise. These
methods provide a far more accurate result than from perceived
effort tests, which estimate these figures. Knowing your VO2,
RMR, Power, Lactate Measurement and Heart Rate assessments, we
can develop accurate training zones so that you and your coach
can tune each training session to achieve the maximum benefit.
reducing your risk of overtraining, and time wasted on
“junk kilometers” | |
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The trick is to know how to keep your training within levels that
improve your VO2MAX and LT/AT without over or under training. In
short, you learn how to get the most out of every training
session. Our combined VO2(MAX) LT/AT assessment, will
provide you with a detailed differential analysis of the "gap"
between your potential and your current constraining LT It
provides Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) assessment using expired air VeO2 and blood pressure, body composition analysis, daily calorific requirements, expired air VO2(Max) and blood lactate exercise /stress test.
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During the VO2 test you’ll wear a special mask which enables us to
continuously measure exhaled gases (Oxygen and carbon dioxide)
calculating all metabolic parameters, including V02(MAX). |
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During the Lactate/Anaerobic Threshold tests, a small (pinprick) blood sample is taken at regular intervals from either a finger or ear-lobe. |
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We can conduct testing either on our premises or at a location that best suits you. Our “in field” testing service is unique - we can run an expired air VO2(Max) and Blood Lactate tests while you run, cycle or row on your “favourite” course. |
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We can even run Blood Lactate tests pool-side or in open water. |
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