Cycling lactate threshold testing
- Not improving with your cycling, be it in time trials or triathlons?
- Not sure if you're training too hard or too easy?
- Continually feeling tired and not fresh when going into training sessions or races?
- Want to reach your full potential?
- Want to maximise the limited training time you have available?
Train smarter and race faster with our cycling lactate threshold test
These highly professional two hour sessions offer athletes the chance to make huge improvements in their speed and training efficiency, ultimately leading to faster race times.
The test’s benefits apply to all level of cyclist, from amateurs right up to professional sponsored athletes.
The crucial point is that, providing the individual training plan set up using the test results is followed, you will improve - every single athlete put through the test who stuck to the plan has gone onto faster race times and increased fitness.
The test ensures the athlete will never over-train or under-train again, as each plan uses the client’s individual heart rate zones, wattage levels or the rate of perceived exertion (RPE).
This means that every single person who keeps to their schedule will achieve more by training smarter, as each and every session has a specific purpose.
The test itself is a simple but highly effective method of ascertaining exactly where the athlete’s current fitness is, and what their individual heart rate training zones, wattage levels or RPE will be for their future training schedule
Once the cyclist has completed a health and fitness questionnaire via email, and undertaken a number of body measurement checks in the clinic, including weight, fat percentage (using a machine’s electric impulses or callipers) and red blood cell levels.
You are not required to bring your own bike as we conduct our tests on a static bike, which we can set up to fit your riding position at the clinic.
Similar to Blizard Physiotherapy’s lactate threshold tests for runners overseen by resident running expert and former GB athlete, Dave Tune, the session involves athletes warming up for 5-10 minutes before completing a number of three minute increasingly fast intervals, with regular blood tests to measure the lactate levels in order to ascertain at which point the lactic acid begins to build in the system.
Until the cyclist has reached the level where lactic acid is starting to build in the blood, any training completed below that intensity has next to no benefits, thus it is essential that the first zone, the recovery zone, is verified by measuring the beginnings of that lactic acid during the session.
The next level up is the threshold zone, which is where a lot of training will take place, and is the zone in which an athlete should be able to race in for a prolonged amount of time.
Finally, depending on the athlete - some will be sprint cyclists, some will be endurance triathletes - we will also do some one minute harder efforts to work out the maximum heart rate and the interval zone.
Those athletes who come back for regular repeat tests always progress and a continuous improvement in fitness.
After the session we will chat about what your heart rate or wattage percentage levels mean for your future training schedule, get personal recommendations on specific sessions to complete that are relevant for race goals, before going home with a personal plan designed to maximise potential based on the lactate test results.
The training fits into your lifestyle, but it is also important to make the time to get the most out of each and every session.
You will have regular email and phone contact with us to check progress and ensure you are following the plan correctly.
So if you are a cyclist or triathlete looking to take your training and racing to the next level, contact the clinic to make your appointment on 01302 511755 or email us at info@blizardphysiotherapy.co.uk.
These highly professional two hour sessions offer athletes the chance to make huge improvements in their speed and training efficiency, ultimately leading to faster race times.
The test’s benefits apply to all level of cyclist, from amateurs right up to professional sponsored athletes.
The crucial point is that, providing the individual training plan set up using the test results is followed, you will improve - every single athlete put through the test who stuck to the plan has gone onto faster race times and increased fitness.
The test ensures the athlete will never over-train or under-train again, as each plan uses the client’s individual heart rate zones, wattage levels or the rate of perceived exertion (RPE).
This means that every single person who keeps to their schedule will achieve more by training smarter, as each and every session has a specific purpose.
The test itself is a simple but highly effective method of ascertaining exactly where the athlete’s current fitness is, and what their individual heart rate training zones, wattage levels or RPE will be for their future training schedule
Once the cyclist has completed a health and fitness questionnaire via email, and undertaken a number of body measurement checks in the clinic, including weight, fat percentage (using a machine’s electric impulses or callipers) and red blood cell levels.
You are not required to bring your own bike as we conduct our tests on a static bike, which we can set up to fit your riding position at the clinic.
Similar to Blizard Physiotherapy’s lactate threshold tests for runners overseen by resident running expert and former GB athlete, Dave Tune, the session involves athletes warming up for 5-10 minutes before completing a number of three minute increasingly fast intervals, with regular blood tests to measure the lactate levels in order to ascertain at which point the lactic acid begins to build in the system.
Until the cyclist has reached the level where lactic acid is starting to build in the blood, any training completed below that intensity has next to no benefits, thus it is essential that the first zone, the recovery zone, is verified by measuring the beginnings of that lactic acid during the session.
The next level up is the threshold zone, which is where a lot of training will take place, and is the zone in which an athlete should be able to race in for a prolonged amount of time.
Finally, depending on the athlete - some will be sprint cyclists, some will be endurance triathletes - we will also do some one minute harder efforts to work out the maximum heart rate and the interval zone.
Those athletes who come back for regular repeat tests always progress and a continuous improvement in fitness.
After the session we will chat about what your heart rate or wattage percentage levels mean for your future training schedule, get personal recommendations on specific sessions to complete that are relevant for race goals, before going home with a personal plan designed to maximise potential based on the lactate test results.
The training fits into your lifestyle, but it is also important to make the time to get the most out of each and every session.
You will have regular email and phone contact with us to check progress and ensure you are following the plan correctly.
So if you are a cyclist or triathlete looking to take your training and racing to the next level, contact the clinic to make your appointment on 01302 511755 or email us at info@blizardphysiotherapy.co.uk.
