The guide
Understanding lactate.
Eight chapters, from the first drop of blood to the training zone and beyond. You can read them in order or jump straight in where your question lies.
- 8 chapters
- For athletes, coaches and diagnosticians
- No prior knowledge needed
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Basics
What is lactate?
Where it comes from, what the values tell you and why two thresholds give your training its structure.
5 min read -
Measure
How does a lactate meter work?
What happens in the test strip when the drop of blood arrives, and what the number on the display means.
4 min read -
Measure
Taking a clean drop of blood
Step by step from cleaning to applying the blood, with the errors that most often distort readings.
5 min read -
Measure
Setting up a step test
Starting load, stage increment, stage duration and breaks. With ready-made protocols for treadmill, track and bike.
7 min read -
Understand
Threshold models: which one, and when?
Mader, Dickhuth, Stegmann, Dmax: how the models calculate, where they come from and which one suits your test.
5 min read -
Analyse
Analysing in the Lactate Express App
From reading to curve, from curve to threshold, from threshold to your training zones.
4 min read -
Analyse
Transferring readings to WinLactat
How the values get from the meter into the professional software and what you do with them there.
4 min read -
Understand
More than lactate: what the other values show
Glucose, β-ketones, uric acid and total cholesterol: what they tell you and what you can take from them for your training.
7 min read
Prefer to start measuring right away?
Both meters at a glance, with a comparison and where to buy.