[SlowAndSteady]

Aerobic

Open to all thoughts and suggestions, but here are my specific questions

-aet seems to be about 114, way lower than what my maf is and what I was training at (below 150ish)

-I can breathe through my nose and converse at well above my Aet… like 145-155ish. Which is when carb usage is about 100% and lactate really getting up there…. I find this unusual. What is the reason for all this?  My training background was essentially “always go hard”. Played sports recreationally and went to a military college where we did lots of  running and such, also powerlifted

-was never really fast, but could previously run a mile in 6 minutes… bump that to 1.5 miles and I’m at a 7 min/mile pace… and it just got worse from there very quickly. So I guess these results makes my previous running times make more sense (the big drop off in pace as distance increases even a bit)

 

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also, I made this other post with a lifting question, just in case it affects this post or vice versa. Although getting back to lifting is a new thing for me, it’s been several years

Will this lifting routine prevent improving aerobic threshold?

[Scott Johnston]

Thanks for sending in your test.  My thoughts are the following:

1) You need to do most of your aerobic base training between 110 and 130 to flatten out the lactate curve (lower lactate levels).

2) People with your training background will often have a very low AeT relative to MAF and can breathe comfortably much higher than AeT.

3) The drop in pace as distance increases is to be expected when your aerobic capacity is low.  That’s because you are relying too heavily on the anaerobic metabolic pathway.

Scott

[SlowAndSteady]

Thanks Scott! I think this is actually a really old post I made, that somehow came up again as new. I know I made it several years ago, not this past October.

 

An updated thread I made is here: https://evokeendurance.com/forums/topic/drift-test-vs-lactate-measurement/

Based on that thread, I think it’s crucial to have essentially no wait before warmup and workout…. and to also give a pretty long warmup or it can mess with an accurate aet. Another example of that is todays ruck on an incline treadmill.

-18 minute warmup, spent the last 8 minutes at workout pace. Then went right into workout.

-Then 75 minute workout. Drift was 141/133 =  6.1%.

-But…. if I only take the last 60 minutes, then my drift was 141/138 = 2.2%.

-If I only take the last 50 minutes, it was 141/140 = 0.8% (I always round up for my drift, but it was really closer to 0.7%)

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[SlowAndSteady]

Additional information to my above response, my aet is a good amount higher than this post topic  lab test. Like I said before, this was somehow a repost from something I posted maybe 3 years ago.

 

Since then I did a ton of walking, then started very very slow jogging,  then later got a lacate meter…. and I hit 2mmol/L at a much higher heart rate than my intial lab test… about 148ish with the last self test I did

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