Physiological factors which influence the performance potential of athletes:Analysis of sports medicine performance testing in Nordic combined.

CONCLUSION: In this study, test speed on the treadmill [m/s] at a lactate concentration of 4 mmol/l showed the strongest influence that was independent of other parameters on the sporting performance of the Nordic combined athletes. Regardless of how the lactate threshold is determined, a lactate value of 4 mmol/l should almost always be above an indicative anaerobic threshold, meaning that the application of this parameter is more valid than using an arbitrary individual threshold, both physiologically and mathematically. In this vein, the test speed at a lactate concentration of 4 mmol/l can be recommended as a robuster, more independent from mathematical models and physiologically more valid parameter for performance diagnostics in professional athletes and was independent of other parameters. PMID: 32662310 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The Physician and Sportsmedicine Online - Category: Sports Medicine Tags: Phys Sportsmed Source Type: research