Anyone here familiar with FACT Canada and their Lactate Balance test protocol?
Here is the Link to FACT Canada if yo are unaware of what the balance point test is.
Huh… The proof of the efficacy of their testing and training is an investigation that found the optimum training intensity produces the following:
Were these really small people? I’m trying to understand what group of people would make significant fitness gains by spending time riding at 130 watts… The average male athlete has to be, uhhh… 70 kg?
Would the wattage not have been a dependant variable.
yeah it depends on how hard you ride
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I think the point they were making is at the LBP there is no deflection in heart rate at power x or vice versa. Which they suggests proves the LBP is the true maximum aerobic steady state. Any higher and performance drops.
I think the point they were making is at the LBP there is no deflection in heart rate at power x or vice versa. Which they suggests proves the LBP is the true maximum aerobic steady state. Any higher and performance drops.
Ok, but so what? One should expect a range of intensities where HR and pace and power are essentially flat over time (around Z2/Z3 in coggan’s power terms, and around E pace in daniels’ running paces).
This is certainly interesting data for the athlete but really not very useful. They state that as you train and race (and presumably get fitter) the LBP will change, requiring more testing (and more payments!). This sounds like a great system… For the tester.
Save your money and buy a watch for running and a powermeter for the bike. Which brings me back to that graph I copied earlier. What group of people can make significant fitness gains by by spending time riding around at 130 watts? I think the answer is “untrained”.