Sports doctor prescribed exercise

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  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,002 Member
    Just realized definitions seem to be different.. with lactate threshold my doctor means the moment where lactate rises quickly, thus probably close to the anaerobic threshold. So basically I'm running around anaerobic most of the time.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,760 Member
    yirara wrote: »
    Just realized definitions seem to be different.. with lactate threshold my doctor means the moment where lactate rises quickly, thus probably close to the anaerobic threshold. So basically I'm running around anaerobic most of the time.

    That would be very unpleasant, assuming it feels like lactate threshold usually feels IME.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,002 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    yirara wrote: »
    Just realized definitions seem to be different.. with lactate threshold my doctor means the moment where lactate rises quickly, thus probably close to the anaerobic threshold. So basically I'm running around anaerobic most of the time.

    That would be very unpleasant, assuming it feels like lactate threshold usually feels IME.

    Go figure. That probably explains why exercising is so bloody difficult for me. Well, I seem to staying below anaerobic for about 25-30 minutes, and then am mostly above from there on. I'm currently never below the first ventilatory threshold, and can only about speak a single short sentence when running. During all of which lungs pretty much complain they've got nothing to do and are bored.
  • pridesabtch
    pridesabtch Posts: 2,493 Member
    I found this very interesting. Like you running spikes my heart rate something awful. Even when I was running regularly up to half marathons my husband would get onto me about my breathing and heart rate being to labored and too high. It didn't really seem to matter how slowly or how fast I ran, the HR was just BAM 170. My average HR for the half marathons were in the 160's which was manageable for 2 hours, but never what I'd call comfortable. When I bike, I can spike m heart rate into the 180's even low 190's, but my average is usually in the 140 - 150's even on a hard ride. Weird how the body works or doesn't work...

    I'm about 7 years older and 40 pounds heavier now and running still does the same thing, I just can't tolerate it like I used to.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,002 Member
    Thought I post an update. Week 9 finished. No difference: anaerobic threshold is where it used to be, I can run for about an hour, of which my legs start to give up in the last 20 minutes. My HR, when running at walking pace shoots up to said anaerobic threshold and then pretty much stays there. When running faster it goes higher. Only difference: I lost pace. I can't run as fast anymore as I used to. Well, the 'fast' was still very slow. Bummed.

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