What Are The Training Applications from this Acidosis Update?
Personal trainers and fitness professionals can utilize this contemporary understanding of acidosis information for endurance and resistance exercise design. For endurance training, a modern training method is “lactate threshold training”, which is an aerobic training technique that helps to improve the contribution of ATP from mitochondrial respiration, thus decreasing the reliance on glycolysis. This type of training has been thoroughly reported in a past IDEA Personal Trainer magazine article (Dalleck, L.C. & Kravitz, L. (2003). Optimize Endurance Training, Volume 14 Number 1 pp 36-42). (CLICK HERE). For optimizing clients and students doing high-intensity resistance exercise, fitness professionals are encouraged to also incorporate endurance exercise in the training design. This important training addition will eventually lead to a better proton buffering capacity for the exercisers, thus inhibiting a major contributing factor to fatigue when they do their challenging resistance exercise workouts.