More on anaerobic threshold
May. 3rd, 2005 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ninevirtuesBack in approximately February (can it have been that long ago...?) I posted, nerdily, about anaerobic threshold and why you'd care about that.
Well, someone else with more enthusiasm and spare time than I have did the same thing:
http://www.sport-fitness-advisor.com/anaerobicthreshold.html
* Disclaimer: This webpage claims that the conconi test is not reliable, and instead touts its relatively low-tech methods to raise your heart rate to your anaerobic threshold.... to wit, "Go run as fast as you can for an hour, and the average heart rate you see on your HRM, that's your anaerobic threshold."
Uh huh. I don't think so. Twenty minutes spent hunting online found the studies that claimed that. (Delightful surprise #1: Journal of Exercise Physiology is online. Delightful surprise #2: After a year of higher education, I can now read the articles and understand, generally, what is being discussed.) The point of the studies was that Conconi's test is not absolutely accurate for everyone. No, more than likely it's not, but it's certainly more accurate than "Go ride fast for an hour".
I'll boil the discussion down for ya: If you want to measure your anaerobic threshold, a formal exercise test-- e.g. the Conconi test-- is the way to go.
Ya want more accurate? Max Testa, one of the pioneers of sport science, has a lab in Davis. Go.
Ya want cheaper and easier? Go race a 10k (running) or ride a 25 mile time trial (cycling) and note your average heart rate. But... there must be competition. You need incentive. When it comes to incentive, kicking the tail of your fellow man (or woman) is as good as incentive gets.
Well, someone else with more enthusiasm and spare time than I have did the same thing:
http://www.sport-fitness-advisor.com/anaerobicthreshold.html
* Disclaimer: This webpage claims that the conconi test is not reliable, and instead touts its relatively low-tech methods to raise your heart rate to your anaerobic threshold.... to wit, "Go run as fast as you can for an hour, and the average heart rate you see on your HRM, that's your anaerobic threshold."
Uh huh. I don't think so. Twenty minutes spent hunting online found the studies that claimed that. (Delightful surprise #1: Journal of Exercise Physiology is online. Delightful surprise #2: After a year of higher education, I can now read the articles and understand, generally, what is being discussed.) The point of the studies was that Conconi's test is not absolutely accurate for everyone. No, more than likely it's not, but it's certainly more accurate than "Go ride fast for an hour".
I'll boil the discussion down for ya: If you want to measure your anaerobic threshold, a formal exercise test-- e.g. the Conconi test-- is the way to go.
Ya want more accurate? Max Testa, one of the pioneers of sport science, has a lab in Davis. Go.
Ya want cheaper and easier? Go race a 10k (running) or ride a 25 mile time trial (cycling) and note your average heart rate. But... there must be competition. You need incentive. When it comes to incentive, kicking the tail of your fellow man (or woman) is as good as incentive gets.
