Understanding Lactate Threshold Heart Rate Training

USAT has an excellent article on Lactate Threshold Heart Rate (LTHR) and how it can be incorporated into training. This is something the coaches at Endorphin Fitness hammers into our brains all the time and the kind of workouts they make us suffer through. BUT it pays dividends!

Marty Gaal states that improving lactate threshold involves

1. increasing your aerobic endurance by
   

   completing workouts involving aerobic exercises (swimming, biking, running, rowing, cross-country skiing, and so on) at an easy to moderate effort level. Over time, your ability to continue the exercise will improve through physiological adaptations to the specific exercise.
   

2. improving your LTHR by
   

   completing easier training sessions like the above, plus including more challenging workouts that raise your heart rate.

Click the source link for more information about LTHR. It also gives a workout to help you find your threshold as well as some workouts for increasing your LTHR.

[Source: usatriathlon.org]