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Tuesday, 12th
May 2020
HR / Lactate Table for Training
Intensity Levels
It has always
astonished me how regimentally arithmetic (but therefore highly prescriptive)
the classic table of steps are of HR per step in lactate. E.g. Look at column PR/L4 and HR 140 right
down to 170, the difference between PR/L2.0 and PR/L2.5 is just 2, sometimes
3, beats per minute increase whatever HR at Threshold. Compare the top row PR/L4 at HR 140 to row
five down (145!) where each lactate step HR is 5 beats above the top row
(except PR/L1!)
Maybe your
testing has found an athlete to show something contrary to this
regimentation, I would be keen to know?
This
simple table can also help your actual practise of lactate testing to ensure
your procedure is good and your results viable. If any measure is too far out of trend,
consider throwing it out and re-test paying more attention to your technique.
“Training Lactate
Pulse-rate” by Peter GJM Janssen. 1987, page 66.
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Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Another “pearl” from my
longtime favourite Janssen …
The advantageous pace-shift, efficiency, and endurance
time that comes with improved metabolism of fat for energy from untrained to
trained condition.
Once trained a person
can perform upto 80% of their maximum performance capacity utilising fats for
fuel which means they perform at a much faster pace for a longer time, while
preserving carbohydrate stores, lasting much longer than when fueling beyond
their fat metabolism max. pace that uses up primarily carbohydrate stores relatively
quickly (being just around 90 minutes at lactate threshold) !
“Training Lactate
Pulse-rate” by Peter GJM Janssen. 1987, page 16.
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Monday, December 2,
2019
Individual
example: The primary purpose of training, to improve one’s power “bandwidth”,
is demonstrated by the much greater range from one’s lowered resting heart
rate to a much higher HR lactate threshold deflection point.
This human adaptability
(change in performance potential) is dramatically demonstrated in this
(graph) of a 20 year old’s improvement before and
after a training period.
The
max. HR does not change, no “improvement” to be found there!
You
can see that when Threshold was at 130, after training this point of work,
speed, or duration limitation will be akin to “jogging”, being a new very
extensive tolerance to duration of activity at that pace-HR. Previously 130 HR would have been entirely
carbohydrate (glycogen) burning, strictly performance duration limiting when
untrained, lucky to last an hour let alone 90 minutes, the latter being a
typical athletic exhaustion time of carbo substrate at Threshold.
After
training, this individual at 130 HR is now likely primarily fat-burning,
moving at same or faster speed, but can go on theoretically for hours!
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Tuesday, November 12, 2019
“Marius” on getting it right: What lactate
testing is all about
“Earlier studies done by Frank Evertsen and the renowned physiologist Saltin showed that the dominating Kenyans did much of
their training right below their Lactate Threshold (LT – right when you start
to accumulate lactic acid) as compared with Scandinavians who trained either
too easy or too hard with little “feel” for how hard they were running.”
-
Marius
Bakken, Norway, March 2000.
There is plenty of
considerable value on Marius’ wordpress page:
– Bislett Games
2001 // 13.09 5000 –
http://www.mariusbakken.com/
Personal bests
800 m 1.51.19 (Oslo 97)
1500 m 3.38.86 (Rieti 05)
2000 m 5.01.46 (Florø 03)
3000 m 7.40.47 (Brussels 01)
5000 m 13.06.39 (Rome 04)
10000 m 28.26.x (Lisbon 00)
10000 road 28.26 (Oslo 00)
Championship
participation
§ Olympic Games 2000/2004
§ World Championships 99/01/05
§ European Championships 02/06
§ European U23 99, European Juniors 97
§ 9th place World Championships 01
§ 12th place World Championships 05
§ Silver medal European U23 99
Marius has
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It has 15 instructional videos, 10 additional
videos, and 120 content packed pages!
It is …
“Structured so it is easy to customize for any runner – regardless age, gender, speed, or skill”
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Thursday,
16th May 2019
A Shorty Clark story…
…(Shorty) is all concentration on his way to
winning his local Taranaki triathlon several years ago.
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Friday,
8th December 2017
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Rowing
again!
Again, apology for my sport bias but it is the one I am most familiar
with from my youth and the principles are applicable to many sports!
“Power-2-Weight”:
PART ONE
When I came out of Phys Ed School in ‘83 I went back to rowing a couple
years later to experiment on myself with what I’d learnt. On arriving, University “Easter Tourney” rowing
was not what it is today, feeling it mickey-mouse, so I didn’t bother with
it for 4 years, proving costly when trying to get “back on the oar” with
any kind of representative ambitions. Was a so-called adult student going in,
coming back to career hunting and rowing at 26.
I became increasingly fascinated with the concept of Power-to-Weight
as a determinant of performance. Soundly frequently defeated by about half
a dozen of the countries top Light-weights (<72.5
kg), being only a “medium-weight” myself with a best racing (and health)
weight of about 82kg, I had to also contend with about a dozen ahead of me
in the Heavy-weight Single Scull category. Did okay with placings in Intermediate and
Senior events.
Noticed improved condition through a Season coincided with becoming very
trim with reduced weight (from around an off-season 88kg, back in the day
when there was such as off-season!). Was performance improvement just a factor of
improved cardio-vascular function or, and, if both, was it about carrying
less weight? … which had the most impact?
Then there was the phenomenon of Philippa Baker and Brenda Lawson “pocket
rockets” who for years annihilated any truly heavy weight women at the NZ
Champs and won individual world titles in Light Weight and Under 23 respectively,
and then took on the world together reigning for several years in the
Double Sculls.
It was their performance that inspired me to create a power-to-weight
performance table that gave predictive on-water single scull times …
(requested data for only on “even” courses, meaning no tail-wind or current)
… which was taken from one’s bodyweight and 2000m Ergometer score. I put a survey to NZ’s top rowers who
kindly allowed use of their data (which could not personally identify them
anyway) and using mine and other modest performers the spread on the table
from average to superior was completed. It was developed on old Concept2 B
Models. I suspect the algorithm has changed somewhat from those days so
that for such a performance predictive table to be used today it would need
to be re-done for today’s “E” model and superior technology in faster
carbon-fibre skiffs. We were only just transitioning
from wooden oars in my-day!
The impressive German immigrant Herman Krutzman
residing in Cambridge, himself an accomplished sport scientist, Olympic level
coach, and builder of skiffs branded in his own name, Krutzman,
was an incredible source of additional “real” education for this “newbie” in
hydrodynamics revealing the massive increase in resistance (additional force required from what is a modest
“biological engine”) for the increased surface area of a skiff due to
increased weight.
If a variety of people today sent me their best Single race time (again,
even conditions only), with their Erg 2K PB, and their bodyweight for their
on-water performance I could modernize
this predictive table. I have used
it for good motivational effect when I was coaching about 20 years ago!
If you want
the old table as it
is, I will see if I can dig it out, drop me an email, or if you have a collection
of old NZ Rowing mags it appeared there around the late ‘80’s (think it
was!).
Then there was the spectator confusing sensational Cohen and Sullivan,
multi-World and 2012 Olympic Double Scull Champions, medium-weights and average height (just like me!) that resumed
an interest in this Power-2-Weight thesis. When they stood on the dais against those they had defeated they appeared “little guys” at
around 6 foot! They also paced their
races in a style which was uncommon (subject for another “lactate tidbit”
article one day!). They would appear to sit modestly in the field to finish
over the last 500m with a blistering sprint that put fans on the edge of
seats, exhilarating, as they carved through the field.
This “Power-2-Weight” subject had its original roots way back to a particular
graph in the now classic undergrad “Textbook of Work Physiology” by the
legends Astrand and Rodahl (2nd Ed,
1977) that lends to this (above) “story” to this day.
Traditional graphs of VO2max show that the heavier you are the greater
likelihood that you have the highest VO2max. However, if you put a spread
of people from those with light bodyweight and relatively low VO2max against
heavier people with higher VO2max you do not necessarily have a predictor
of performance in times, or across a finish line, in cycling, running, or
on water events!
However! The lower graph shows
you that you do have a predictor of performance if you correct for bodyweight
by a function of its -2/3.
This means that instead of the all too common standard expressions of
simple litres per minute VO2max or milliliters per
minute per kilogram, use milliliters
per minute per kilogram to -2/3.
Simply, it evens
out (or accounts) for the effect of bodyweight on VO2max leaving you an
assessment of just who has the better VO2max irrespective bodyweight!
Why this third formulation is not used as one standard in High Performance
sport I have no idea, maybe someone can tell me. (Maybe I’ve been away from
ivory towers too long! ;-) It has only been around as a
clearer predictor than straight VO2max or milliliters per kilogram since
the leading-light sport scientists of the ‘60’s! Sure, Lactate Threshold is a better
“fitness” indicator, but VO2max assessment still has the place for predicting
the ultimate performance capacity and international competitive potential (rank)
of an individual.
So what
practically is the value of all this long commentary for you? How do you
use this to improve performance?
That is the
subject for Part Two!
Will try and get onto this before or over the Xmas break. If you don’t hear
from me before, or I you, YOU HAVE A GREAT XMAS!
;-)
KJG
KJ & ER Goodhew
BM&S Imports – lactate.co.nz
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Thursday,
28th September 2017
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Rowing!
Please excuse this writer’s bias …an old rower!
NZ Rowing has hard-worked its way to one of, if not “the” most spectacular
result winning status of any sport in Aotearoa. It amazed me the
flagellation after the Olympics. To me what I saw was all this young talent
coming on with the Men’s 8 “up there” just 7 seconds off Gold ….and the
Women, “my god” I said …the women coming 4th, just 4 seconds off
the winner USA.
If each one of that crew has just improved their condition, on average
through the crew, to delay lactate accumulation at wattage (power) or speed
giving a 4 seconds improvement, then we have not just the possibility of a
medal but gold.
Even though I spent most of my years with preference in small boats,
the prospect of little ol’ NZ crashing the party in
the Big Boats again after all these years has this old-oar excited beyond
what any (non-rowers) could believe.
Kia kaha NZ Rowing!
KJG
The
women's eight crew in action in Florida Photo credit: Getty
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Tuesday, 24th January 2017
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Lactate testing and illness or over-training
syndrome.
In 1995 for the first time having on-hand a small
portable lactate testing device there was an explosion of thoughts and
enquiries on what else lactate testing could tell us apart from basic determination
of “performance at lactate threshold”.
I have forgotten who wrote that mood turns dark
a day to several days before an athlete physiologically plummets into serious
overtraining syndrome and performance capacity reversal, which as we all
know, the arresting of such performance collapse often cannot be halted and
can just carry on getting worse!.
I still wonder how many coaches and trainers are
mercilessly and uselessly thrashing athletes into poor performances?
One approach to mitigating this was exemplified
by Rushall and Pyke in “Training for Sports and Fitness”, 1990, have
athletes fill out a “Daily Analysis of Life Demands”, which provide a
“window” into the state of the athlete.
From 1995 I tested myself (relatively young compared
to now!) and several others under the duress of severe training demands
walking the tight-rope of gain or collapse as
everybody felt they must do:
A simple submax protocol
was used: 20
minute easy warmup followed by 5 or 10 minutes at a relatively easy
below La threshold pace and lactate sample. If all was well
the HR and La at set pace would stay the same over a week or so, and then
as weeks went by reveal state of the athlete in either of 3 ways:
1. HR and
La stay the same at set pace, or …
2. … they
drop, hinting an improvement in functional capacity, or …
3. … if things
are either about to go bad or have gone bad for the athlete the HR and La
are higher than usual for set effort.
The lactate sampling submax
test could be done weekly and does not stress and strain an athlete, it can
become just part of a training session!
A simpler HR version of this (without La test)
can be done everyday! …to confirm the kind of
work the athlete is up for that day.
You do not have to thrash athletes with all-out
tests to reveal that their capacities are on the improve, or in jeopardy, or
that they have stalled, hinting at it being time to review the work programme due to stagnant adaptation, or the athlete just
drifting without purpose !
An unexpectedly raised HR and La at submax can indicate another matter of concern that competes
with training adaptation and that is energy for the immune system: Our lactate meters are used in veterinary
clinics and A&E dept’s for sepsis screening: Infection raises your lactate level: A resting reading at or above what would be
your Work Threshold would be of concern!
However also, I have found some sport
supplements will (strangely!) raise your lactate level above what you would
expect from having been resting! I
have not looked for research into what you eat as negatively affecting
lactate, work capacity at La.4. If
there is still nothing on this since I looked in 1995 there is an
opportunity for a student!
Just some observations! Hope you like and will look
into it further for yourself, to build on this!
KJ Goodhew.
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Monday, 4th April 2016.
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A simple correlative observation on the success
of NZ Olympic sports that use (or do not use) lactate testing.
Since first introducing convenient small
portable (hand-held) lactate testing to NZ sport in 1995 I’ve noticed that
the sport codes that involve a significant endurance component, who have
used our lactate testing product the most over the past 21 years, have been
the most successful.
Those that buy the most lactate testing strips are
hands-down unquestionably our most successful sports. Other endurance sports who one might think
would use lactate testing to be more successful are not successful.
Just a simple observation!
KJ Goodhew.
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Friday, 18th December 2015.
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Maintaining
Nose Breathing
and Lactate
Threshold
In 1994 I came across this book by Douillard,
intrigued not the least reason since it mirrored my business’s name.
In it was his thesis on the great benefits of nose-breathing
over the all too common mouth-breathing during exercise, or worst of all
open-mouth breathing as normal while inactive.
It was not something I had thought about but subsequently
realised that I was a somewhat good nose-breather
during moderate exercise.
From this point on I insisted upon it with myself
and after the period of adaptation to it, receiving clear benefits, advised
everybody who came through my door to convert to it also.
It varies between 3 weeks to 3 months for
people to adapt to strict adherence. Douillard’s thesis is that your
physiology is changed. I thought
that lactate testing should show
up some of this adaptive process.
I experimented with it in self-training for Masters
Rowing and did pretty good with results, avoiding the frequent over-training
of younger years, generating the not too uncommon thoughts in one’s
accumulated years of “what if I knew
then what I know now?” C’est la vie!
From long memory looking back,
self-experimentation with this gave equally intriguing lactate results.
1. In the
beginning of trying this, the upper-end of maintaining nose-breathing was a
very modest pace, along with expected Heart Rate. (Many clients had to cut back to almost a fast-walk
and could barely handle staying with it. A lot of them arguing against it!)
Lactate at “nose-threshold” in
myself then was only about 2.5 to 3 mmol. Above this intensity I would burst
into old-habit mouth-breathing.
2. As the
weeks went by HR at pace dropped and lactate went to about 3.5 mmol at max. nose-breathing with
an increased pace at this. The HR
drop at pace was not due to any increase or other factors of altered training
over that year or any other years. That is, I had not really had a drop in HR
at set paces for similar amount and level of conditioning in decades!
3. After
many years from 1994 “living” this way, the last surprise result was that I
could maintain nose-breathing (with some will - effort) at a pace-HR that equated
to 4 mmol Threshold. That was some years ago now and I remember thinking
that I felt I could probably taken
it up to maintain nose-breathing at just above Threshold, say 5 mmol. Have not to this day verified if that is possible.
So, there
is an experimental idea for a post-grad thesis!
There is a lot more to this but can’t put a book here!
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All the best to you for Xmas
KJ & ER Goodhew.
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Wednesday, 4th November 2015.
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A relatively small amount of what is initially high intensity
tolerance work repeated daily with a largely untrained individual has a
dramatic adaptive effect on improved tolerance to that work as measured by
lactate response.
Referring to the left hand graph, there is
as said for the “tidbit” below (last week), so much in this. Edwards (1939) is another giant in early
Exercise Physiology that the profession is built on today.
“Fast forward”: Being the original importer-distributor of small
hand-held lactate testing meters in 1995, the “Accusport”
by Boehringer-Manheim, we wanted to gather as much broad information as
possible on the possible varieties of use and benefits of such easy technology.
In those days we offered the “BM&S
Clinic” for personal training in any sport code, individual or team,
and a specialised weight-loss service. Memory from those days is that successes
with people in weight-loss were at least if not more gratifying than
successes with athletes!
One client’s success that stands above all was a 136kg woman who had
“tried everything” to lose weight and despaired. Included with “everything” were gyms and
personal trainers: Their approach
was to “thrash” and basically hurt her with relentless high intensity
sessions that were unpleasant. An
objective “professional” approach in weight-loss exercise prescription
simply was not there in those days. (Being away from involvement in such
services for about 12 years I have not really looked closely at the state
of the efficacy of the “weight-loss game” today!)
What did we do then that was different? We lactate tested everybody
who came through our door whether their goal was prospective Olympian,
beginner runner wanting to do first marathon, weight-loss, triple by-pass
cardiac rehab, wanting to look good for her wedding, a horse, …and even the
postman! True!
When my favourite client story first came through
the door she was scared of exercise. I told her
that she would lose weight with walking at correct intensity and that it
would be easy compared to what she had done and that we would work it out
by testing her blood to make sure the exercise is not at unpleasant and
unnecessary high intensity which puts damaging acid into your blood and
through your body. That is, putting things into simple terms without
off-putting sport science jargon.
As a prelim., with HR monitor on we set off up the road which leads
to Frasers Gully about 2.4 km in length with a more challenging slope in
its last ¼, but which is in the most part a barely perceivable gradual
slope to find that she could not walk around 100m without bursting into
rapid mouth breathing and appearing bothered. Next time I conducted a necessarily
“off-the-cuff” modified lactate assessment protocol just to find where her
4 to 5 mmol HR intensity was.
Several times per week we met to do Frasers Gully interval style
whereby as soon as her HR climbed above her original 5mmol HR we would
stop, let it drop for a minute or two and then on until the alarm called
for the next stop.
At the end of just one month my 136kg client who had lost about 6kg
walked to the top of the gully without one stop or alarm of high HR. Her blood pressure, borderline before,
was now normal.
She told me she was “…amazed how easy and pleasant the
exercise intensity was…” for her to achieve so much.
The graph on the left in today’s copy & paste reminded me of the
mechanism of this favourite client success.
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Friday, 23rd October 2015. : FYI: If you thought I was talking crazier than
usual, some kind of load-up error occurred where the wrong table appeared!
Corrected 25/1/2017
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Classic tabulated data on responses to
various brief training impulse/recovery cycles from the now classic
eponymous text by Astrand and Rodahl, “Textbook
of Work Physiology”.
Yes! I still have my copy from undergrad
days! In it is this referenced
original study by Christensen et al, 1960!
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mMol
16.7
mMol
2.6
1.8
4.9
2.2
5.7
2.3
1.8
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I’ve added to the right an approx. conversion of mg/100ml to mMol.
There is so much that can be taken from this
table that I cannot really get into too much here since having looked at it
and making use of it in training individuals years ago. In past days “in da game” I got a reputation
for taking what people perceived as quite ordinary ranked athletes to a
level unexpected. One day watching
an athlete come in a spectator said to me, “…how is that possible”? I was
young then, saying somewhat flippantly, “training secrets”.
This was later not taken well being accused of offering unfair advantage to
the athlete over others in the club who were expected to dominate in a
predicted procession of race positions. Envy amongst coaches in NZ sport is
a not uncommon terrible thing; I did not last long in that club!
Anyway!
How did I use this table? The issue for the average athlete is that
they have average aerobic capacity, average VO2max, and come up against
gifted athletes with lungs and heart of a horse. What is one to do? We know VO2 is trainable to a significant
degree, but more so is % VO2 that AT kicks off a rapid lactate accumulation
as determinant of endurance performance.
All we can do is optimize the average athlete’s VO2 and then shift
their “threshold” as close as possible toward their VO2max. (…plus effective
race strategy, work on motivation, psychology, and structural soundness –
anatomy – for freedom from potential to injury. The latter most important
since however you do it, VO2max pace work is high stress work. I don’t advocate you do any of this with a beginner!)
We also know that anaerobic-lactate work
destroys aerobic enzymes for upto several days and opens one up to illness
(immune compromise). You can see
from the table that doing VO2max pace continuously for 4 minutes takes
lactate to 16.7 mMol and therefore aerobic
enzymes destroyed. This is not suitable training! Coaches who over max test or over-race
their athletes in this form are simply stuffing them up!
You can see for an already fairly well trained athlete work/rest intervals of 10:5 and
15:10 elicit too high lactate response, destroying aerobic capacity for
subsequent days.
You can see the best strategy to elicit a
near maximum VO2 of 5.3 with a lactate response equivalent to “going for a
jog” is 15:15.
Experiment
with this and during it wack in a lactate test or
two to determine your athlete’s individual response to this regimen.
I can
assure you this works a treat. I self-tested (when I was young with “OCD”
for discerning “secrets”) and used it on numerous athletes to raise them up
quickly. If you schedule it weekly
use their mood to decide whether to stick with it religiously as per
schedule or not.
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Testimonials
NB: Below is “C&P” from original “My TANITA” posting here … www.bodyfatmonitors.co.nz/#Shorty
The focus on the My TANITA
testimonials is on body composition results through the season but for Shorty
there are almost as many references to lactate test results!
Original posting: Tuesday, 18th
February 2014
Latest
update: Wednesday, 27 March 2019
Shorty Clark…
…(Shorty) is all concentration on his way to
winning his local Taranaki triathlon several years ago.
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Update:
Wednesday,
27 March 2019
As I becried
my own paucity of self-updates on my own profile (text well above), the
purpose of content meant to give you an idea how to use your TANITA for a
healthier (“wealthier”) life, I am so pleased to get back into action on this
page to give you also an update on how long-time friend and stand-out athlete
Shorty Clark has progressed since
first post in February 2014. Scroll to
the bottom of this panel to view that original post!
Shorty is a “real athlete” by comparison
to myself who “plays around” with a few goals and achievements per year:
Anyone wanting to achieve in their sport, at whatever age you happen to be,
could not do better than to emulate Shorty’s clear focused approach that I’ve
observed for at least around 20 years now. When I launched small portable lactate test meters on
the NZ sport market in 1995, sometime soon after I believe Shorty was the
first individual athlete of any sport-code to get one and self-test. He has
done lactate threshold testing ever since and still a couple times per year
puts through his values for lactate at paces to me. Since it was so long ago
(you know what memory is like!) the only triathlete who may have beaten him
to it happened to be a Sports Medicine Doctor and a Triathlon-NZ coach!
Shorty was also the first genuine
athlete in NZ to embrace TANITA
body composition analysis to carefully monitor his condition (physique) to be
in peak readiness for championship competition. Being the importer, in position of
nation-wide observer of users, it stood out that Shorty was 15 years ahead of
most sport codes getting with it on the objectivity of what TANITA can offer a
top athlete, and it still ever amazes myself that after all this time (near ¼
century!) some New Zealand sport codes still have not got with the programme of clear benefits and advantages to using
this world-leading technology! I have known many athletes in my now long
sport related and side-line coaching and personal training career, but I have
known few to match the intellectual approach and dedication of Shorty Clark.
For all my own observational experience I’ve not
seen anything like it, his career has been simply amazing to watch. I find
him inspiring and we can all do with a bit of that sometimes to get us up and
going. 😉
Shorty often keeps me updated with
Facebook messenger, so I have thought for simplicity in this long overdue
update I would just copy & paste some of his quick reports to me (without
my responses as most did not add anything!): Hope you find these as
interesting as I did?
These below are snapshots of Shorty’s
path from success at National Champs – Olympic Distance, Mt Maunganui to a
record at NZ short-course championships, Kinloch.
New Plymouth Tri-Athlete a
Master at using TANITA
In February 2019 Shorty Clark went 10 in a row at Kinloch
National Champs
4/10/2018
Mate.
Did 63km Bike followed by a 13km Run. Was 2hrs 30mins on bike, ave 25.0kph , @ 115, and Run was
05.12pkm ave ,@ 139 . LACTATE was 1.6 mols after
03.00. Unreal!!!. Feeling pretty dam good.
15/12/2018
Nailing
the National Champs Olympic Distance was HUUUUUMUNGUS at the Mount. Great to
beat my mate, finally. Best race for Mental attitude and tenacity. Felt so
good. Lactate 4:6mols after 01.30.
Only
way to get ahead of my competitors. If you don't change, how can u win!!!. Now for the  next 9
weeks of stepping back up to the plate and getting it right for NZ Sprint
Champs, Kinloch, 10 Feb.
25/12/2018
26/12/2018
Big
National Sprint Champs, Kinloch Sunday 10th Feb. Going for the big one!!!! =
10 in a row is the goal, undefeated !!!!. No
pressure -haha. Massive 2hrs Compu Ride yesterday
at 95% , 05.00am !! then at 5.00pm cranked a 8km Run
out . Merry Xmaz I said to myself -haha
Yes , sea swim 2km only in my NEW WETSUIT !!!.
(To
question brand of wetsuit!) Yip the ELITE of the Elite.=
Huub, Agilis, Brownlee . Named after the Brownlee
boys
2/1/2019
Good
start to 2019.
Great sensible eating at Xmaz time is paying early
dividends.   Cheers.
Had
good 13km hilly run today with max type efforts thrown in when going up
hills. WAS 68.00, Ave 05.15pkm, @143, cad 87, .
LACTATE 2.4 mols!!.
2/1/2019
The
Base work is a must , and i
feel that its the total glue to a top performance. Auzzie Worlds proved that for me, as did winning the
National Olympic Tri Champs in December.
Build that " engine", as Adrenalin and Hype will turn on hidden
POWER and SPEED.
You're a Champion, and that doesn't go away, so
"mount up and get back on the horse". Success does await you for
2019.
7/1/2019
Bike
and Run are STRONG!!!, and so rapt about the Run. Cranked a Mini tri myself
on saturday= 1.750-45km- 6km, = 02:40.00. Was at
85% swim 95% Bike 100% Run. Lactate = 6.7mols. Excellent quick recovery. Bike
and Run, hilly course, and ave Run 04:31pkm @ 157,
Cad= 92. Stride = 1.20mts.
23/1/2019
Tracking
nicely to Kinloch National Sprint Champs.
30/1/2019
Looking
good after a Rest Day today. Cheers.
3/2/2019
Rippa of a tri session yesterday
1.600, 28km and 6km. 2hr neat. LACTATE 5.0 mols. Swim 100%, Bike 98% and Run
100%. Hilly course. Ave 04.35pkm Run. Top quick RECOVERY. Feel bloody good
and reckon that " cream" is right there. 
(Tapering
off plan:) Easy sea swim. Massage session 3.00pm. Tues nil Wednesday nil.
Thurs small swim pool on drills Then leave thurs
arvo for Hamilton. Swim pm with Coach squad, easy stuff. Fri 6.30am squad
swim. 10.00 leave for Kinloch. Sunday = the bull stops haha
the guns off 10.04am.
13/2/2019
well
got the nz no. 1 spot at kinloch.
won it by default, as rules says you must be a nzer
(for NZ Champion title). (But) beaten by my pommy mate, but he cannot be
awarded it, so i naturally go from 2nd to 1st.
was
my worst ever race too. went in with bad elbow injury- super inflammed arm and elbow. was a survival type mode race
for me. a super dumb accident on the tues before.
still inflammed and swollen. got x rays monday, awaiting results
Meant
to say LACTATE was 8.3!!! at race FINISH.
Results:
Kinloch
2018/19
SPRINT TRIATHLON
1
Shorty Clark Male 65-69
2
Geoff Martin Male 65-69
3
Warren Taylor Male 65-69
http://kinlochtriathlon.com/
NB: I will do a review
later of the meaning of various measures (trends) in Shorty’s body
composition results, to maybe help you with what it means!
In summation:
You, like myself, do not have to be a standout Champion like Shorty Clark to
benefit greatly from TANITA, but if you decide to, you can go all the way to
your very own personal bests, measured and proven by the world’s best
health-fitness technology! - KJG
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Wednesday,
19th February 2014
Shorty Clark…
…is all concentration on his way to
winning Taranaki Triathlon several years ago…
…uses
LP2 to good effect.
Approximately 12 months ago (2012) I started using
my Lactate Pro 2 Meter for Training and Racing purposes. Used another brand
before that and previous to this I relied heavily
upon Heart-rate Monitors and “subjective feel” data to ascertain my
performances and success/failures.
The most crucial benefit I find is that it allows
me to train and race way more precisely and accurately. It gives me the added
advantage of knowing how to increase my Lactate Tolerances when in
heavy/extended sessions or even when doing a recovery type mode work-out. I
can therefore correlate my Heart-rate a lot closer
to my Lactate Thresholds, thus allowing me to race smarter, quicker,
efficiently and faster.
When racing, it’s critical not to start at to
higher Heart-rate and Lactate level, as this
generates into fatigue, poor performance and the inevitable bonking. By
measuring and testing your Lactate levels in training, you are then able to
maximise your performance and results, come race day. It’s such a valuable
and necessary tool in my training and racing programme, that without it, I
would be always wondering and 2nd guessing at why my performances were not at
their highest level. One thing that is for sure – Blood Lactate levels DO NOT
lie!!, even though you may think and feel differently.
The Lactate Pro 2 gives you that complete and
100% answer in how to improve your training speeds, conditions, results and
performances, via the easy and simple testing methods, plus the added
benefits of being simple to test, quick on results, with accuracy and
lightweight to use/carry.
I thoroughly recommend the Lactate Pro2 Meter as
the best, overall piece of training equipment that has lifted my performances, and allowed me to compete at my top
potential. As a serious Age Group Triathlete, the Lactate Pro 2 has given me
an added advantage to optimise my full athletic potential,
and permits me to train / race in the best possible shape and
condition.
Shorty CLARK.
Mens 60 - 64 Age Group, Tri New
Zealand.
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2012/04/16
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and simple blood lactate meter, the Lactate Pro™ 2
LT-1730 on 17 April. In its card size form, it is small enough to
allow measurement anywhere and boasts increased performance for the rapid
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in blood is an essential marker in the fields of sports physiology, sports science and training. The simple and rapid testing of
lactate is a big benefit to both research and medicine.
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reagent lots has been eliminated which also helps to reduce the risk from
correction errors.
ARKRAY
will continue to answer diverse testing needs in the market.
*In
comparison to existing ARKRAY products:
 
Lactate Pro™ 2 LT-1730 Lactate Pro™ 2 Sensor
Main features of the Lactate Pro™ 2
●A simple blood lactate device, the smallest of its kind
Palm-sized for measurement in any environment: now you can measure lactate
rapidly anywhere
●Minimum sample size: just 0.3µL
Development of a new reagent sensor: measurement possible with just 1/10th
the volume previously needed
●Measurement time: 15 secs
On site measurement is possible using finger-stick blood: results are shown
in just 15 seconds from application of blood to the sensor- one quarter the
time needed for measurement with previous devices.
●No correction needed
No more hassle from correction of sensor lots (insertion of sensor chips
before measurement): this also helps to reduce the risk from correction
errors.
About lactate
Blood lactate is often used in the scientific training for endurance sports
such as soccer, swimming and athletics. As the
intensity of the exercise increases, so too does the concentration of lactate
in the blood. By measuring this change, training can be configured to delay
sharp rises in blood lactate. (There
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Lactate Analyzer
Lactate Pro™ 2 LT-1730
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2. Release date
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17 April 2012 (Tues.)
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Sample type
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Whole blood
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Meas. items
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Lactate in blood
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Meas. principle
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LOD enzyme electrode
method
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Meas. range
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0.5-25.0mmol/L
(5-225mg/dL)
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Processing speed
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15 sec/ sample
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Min. sample vol.
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0.3uL
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Compatible reagents
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Lactate Pro™ 2 Sensor
(Electrode for measuring lactate in blood)
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Data memory
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330 measurements
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Ext. output function
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Yes
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Correction method
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No correction
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Temp. correction
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Auto-correction using
internal temperature sensor
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Temp: 5-40 C, Humidity
20-80% RH (No condensation)
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Power source
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3V lithium battery/
CR2032 X1
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50mm(W) X 12mm(D) X
100mm(H)
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1.
This article posted here 26 Nov. 08 cited from HIV InSite, University
of California, San Francisco.
Point-of-care
lactate testing predicts mortality of severe sepsis in a predominantly HIV
type 1-infected patient population in Uganda
UCSF Institute for Global Health Literature Digest
Published April 17, 2008
Journal Article
Moore CC, Jacob ST, Pinkerton R, Meya DB, Mayanja-Kizza, Reynolds SJ, et al.
Point-of-care
lactate testing predicts mortality of severe sepsis in a predominantly HIV
type 1-infected patient population in Uganda. Clin Infect Dis 2008 Jan 15;
46(2):215-22.
Objective
To evaluate the ability of a handheld portable whole-blood lactate (PWBL) analyzer
to predict mortality in patients who are admitted to the hospital with severe
sepsis.
Study Design
A prospective observational study.
Setting
An accident and emergency department of Mulago Hospital, a national referral
hospital in Kampala, Uganda.
Participants
72 patients were enrolled in the study. Inclusion criteria were ≥18
years of age and admission to a medical ward, along with: 1. two or more
systemic inflammatory response syndrome criteria (body temperature, >38°C
or <36°C; heart rate, >90 beats/min; respiratory rate, >20
breaths/min; or peripheral WBC concentration, >12,000 cells/mm3 or
<4000 cells/mm3; or thermodysregulation; 2.
systolic blood pressure ≤100 mm Hg; and 3. a suspected infection. Exclusion
criteria included acute cerebrovascular events, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, or admission to the surgical or obstetrics
and gynecology ward.
Intervention
There was no intervention in this study. This analysis was conducted among a
subset of 253 patients recruited to study the incidence, management, and
outcomes of sepsis. From this sample, the first and last 50 consecutively
enrolled patients were recruited to determine the predictive value of PWBL in
predicting mortality from sepsis. Background information - including age,
sex, HIV-1 serostatus, and prescribed antiretroviral medicines (ARVs)-was
recorded. At patient enrollment, temperature, heart
rate, respiratory rate, and blood pressure were measured. To determine
outpatient survival, an attempt was made to telephone patients 30 days after
their discharge from the hospital. A rapid HIV-1 test and malaria smear were
performed at Mulago Hospital. A local private clinical laboratory provided
results of lactate and bicarbonate analysis. PWBL was obtained using a lancet
to collect a drop of whole blood from the patient's finger, for analysis by a
handheld portable device. This instrument uses enzymatic determination and
reflectance photometry of lactate in the plasma portion of whole blood using
a measurement strip. Standard laboratory serum lactate (SLSL) concentration
was obtained by phlebotomy for venous blood samples. Within 2 hours of sample
collection, the sample was transported in a standard serum tube via a cooler
to the clinical laboratory, where blood was centrifuged and serum was removed
for use in the lactate assay.
Primary Outcomes
In-hospital mortality.
Results
Information was available for 72 of the 100 enrolled subjects. The mean age
of participants was 35.7, 61.1% were women, and 81.9% were HIV infected, with
a mean CD4 lymphocyte count of 88.6 cells/ mm3. These 72 patients were
similar to the larger study population in age (mean age, 35.7 vs. 33.8
years), sex (61.1% vs. 59.1% female), HIV-1 seropositivity (81.9% vs. 86.6%),
and ARV status (13.9% vs. 10.6% ARVs prescribed). Fifty-nine (81.9%) of 72
evaluated patients were infected with HIV-1. The in-hospital mortality rate
was 25.7% (18 of 70), and the in- and outpatient mortality at 30 days was
41.6% (30 of 72). PWBL was positively associated with in-hospital but not
outpatient mortality (p <.001). The receiver operating characteristic
(ROC) area under the curve for PWBL was 0.81 (p <.001). The optimal PWBL
concentration for predicting in-hospital mortality (sensitivity, 88.3%;
specificity, 71.2%) was ≥4.0 mmol/L. Patients with a PWBL concentration
≥4.0 mmol/L died while in the hospital substantially more often (50.0%)
than did those with a PWBL concentration <4.0 mmol/L (7.5%) (odds ratio,
12.3; 95% confidence interval, 3.5-48.9; p <0.001). SLSL levels were lower
among survivors than among deceased. The ROC under the curve for predicting
in-hospital mortality was 0.72 (p=0.004). SLSL results were inconsistent and
less predictive of mortality than were those of PWBL.
Conclusions
The authors conclude that PWBL testing can quickly identify patients who
require immediate interventions, and it should be included in
evaluation and treatment algorithms for septic patients. PWBL testing could
be used in village health posts, for earlier transfer of septic patients to
facilities with a higher level of care, and in referral hospitals, for triage
of patients to acute care settings where appropriate resuscitation can begin.
In Context
Elevated lactate concentrations and poor clearance of lactic acid are known
to increase mortality from severe sepsis. Lactate concentrations, combined
with other laboratory measures, are used to guide early management of sepsis.
Measurement of lactate concentration in developing countries is difficult
because of limited resources. An effective, inexpensive method to measure
lactate concentration without sophisticated laboratory resources has the
potential to offer a method to identify patients in greatest need of rapid,
aggressive treatment of sepsis.
Programmatic Implications
The use of the PWBL and its value in predicting mortality from sepsis in
populations with high prevalence of HIV has potential to assist health care
workers in resource limited settings in prioritizing these patients.
Hospitalization, availability of support for potential multisystem failure,
and rapid administration of antimicrobial agents can be delivered more
urgently in persons with high lactate concentrations.
2.
This article posted here 26 Nov. 08
cited from Lab Tests On-line.
Lactate
Testing in Acute Assessement
What is being
tested?
This test measures the amount of lactate in the blood or, more rarely, in the
cerebrospinal
fluid. Lactate is the ionic (electrically charged) form of lactic acid.
It is produced by muscle cells, red blood cells, brain, and other tissues
during anaerobic
energy production and is usually present in low levels in the blood. Aerobic
energy production is the body’s preferred process, but it requires an
adequate supply of oxygen. Aerobic energy production occurs in the
mitochondria, tiny power stations inside each cell of the body that use
glucose and oxygen to produce ATP (adenosine triphosphate), the body’s
primary source of energy.
When cellular oxygen levels are decreased,
however, and/or the mitochondria are not functioning properly, the body must
turn to less efficient anaerobic energy production to metabolize glucose and
produce ATP. In this process, the primary byproduct
is lactic acid, which can build up faster than the liver can break it down.
When lactic acid levels increase significantly in the blood, the affected
person is said to have first hyperlactatemia and then lactic acidosis (LA).
The body can often compensate for the effects of hyperlactatemia, but LA can
be severe enough to disrupt a person’s acid/base
(pH) balance and cause symptoms such as muscular weakness, rapid
breathing, nausea, vomiting, sweating, and even coma.
Lactic acidosis is separated into two types: A
and B. Type A may be due to inadequate oxygen uptake in the lungs and/or to
decreased blood flow (hypoperfusion) resulting in decreased transport of
oxygen to the tissues. The most common reason for this is shock from a
variety of causes including trauma and blood loss, but LA may also be due to
conditions such as heart
attack, congestive
heart failure, and pulmonary edema (fluid in
the lungs). Type B is caused by conditions that increase the amount of
lactate/lactic acid in the blood but are not related to a decreased
availability of oxygen. This includes liver
and kidney
disease, diabetes,
leukemia,
AIDS,
glycogen
storage diseases (such as glucose-6-phosphatase deficiency), drugs and
toxins, severe infections (both systemic sepsis
and meningitis),
and a variety of inherited metabolic and mitochondrial diseases (forms of
muscular dystrophy that affect normal ATP production). Strenuous exercise can
also result in increased blood levels of lactate.
3.
Green Prescription
1. Lactate Testing in General Practise
With the advent of the world’s first
small hand-held lactate test meter launched in 1994 by Boehringer Mannheim,
the use of lactate prescription for effective and objective “Green
Prescription” was already well considered.
My personal observation is that the Europeans are well ahead of us in
this medically correct and safety orientated approach to intensity prescription of exercise. It is this correct medical approach that
has been begging for implementation here in NZ. Fourteen years later (2008)
the right Doctor with knowledge & motivation to champion this cause here is yet to be forthcoming!
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2. This article posted here
26 Nov. 08 cited on-line at Wiley Interscience.
Interval versus continuous training in patients with severe
COPD: a randomized clinical trial Eur Respir J 1999;
14: 258–263.
R. Coppoolse*, A.M.W.j.
Schols*, E.m. Baarends*, R. Mostert**, M.a. Akkermans**, P.p. Janssen**, E.F.m.
Wouters*
**Astmacentre Hornerheide, and *Dept of Pulmonology, Maastricht University, the
Netherlands.
Correspondence: A.M.W.J. Schols
Dept of Pulmonology
P.O. Box 5800
6202 AZ Maastricht
The Netherlands
Fax: 31 433875051
Copyright Copyright ERS Journals Ltd
1999
Interval versus continuous training in patients with severe
COPD: a randomized clinical trial. R. Coppoolse, A.M.W.J. Schols, E.M.
Baarends, R. Mostert, M.A. Akkermans, P.P. Janssen, E.F.M. Wouters. ©ERS
Journals Ltd 1999.
ABSTRACT
Abstract
Limited
information is available regarding the physiological responses to different
types of exercise training in patients with severe chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD). The aim of this study was two
fold: firstly, to investigate the physiological response to training
at 60% of achieved peak load in patients with severe COPD; and secondly to
study the effects of interval (I) versus continuous (C) training in
these patients.
Twenty-one
patients with COPD (mean±sd
forced expiratory volume in one second: 37±15% of predicted, normoxaemic at rest) were evaluated at baseline and after
8 weeks' training. Patients were randomly allocated to either I or C
training. The training was performed on a cycle ergometer, 5 days a week, 30
min daily. The total work load was the same for both
training programmes.
C training
resulted in a significant increase in oxygen consumption (V 'O2)
(17%, p<0.05) and a decrease in minute ventilation (V 'E)/V 'O2
(p<0.01) and V 'E/carbon dioxide production (V 'CO2)
(p<0.05) at peak exercise capacity, while no changes in these measures
were observed after interval training. During submaximal exercise
a significant decrease was observed in lactic acid production,
being most pronounced in the C-trained group (-31%, p<0.01 versus
-20%, p<0.05). Only in the I-trained group did a significant increase in
peak work load (17%, p<0.05) and a decrease in
leg pain (p<0.05) occur. Training did not result in a significant
improvement in lung function, but maximal inspiratory mouth pressure
increased in both groups by 10% (C: p<0.05) and 23% (I: p<0.01).
The present study
shows a different physiological response pattern to interval or continuous
training in chronic obstruction pulmonary disease, which might be a reflection of specific training effects in either
oxidative or glycolytic muscle metabolic pathways. Further work is required
to determine the role of the different exercise programmes and the particular category of patients for whom this might be
beneficial.
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Articles
Bad news for heavy riders and narrow horses
March
3, 2008
Researchers
in the US have bad news for overweight horse riders. A study has found that
horses that have to carry between 25 and 30 per cent
of their bodyweight have more physical problems related to exercise than
those who carry 20 percent or less.
Horses carrying 30% body weight showed a significant increase in
muscle soreness and muscle tightness scores. The changes were less marked
when they carried 25% body weight.
Dr Debra Powell .... conducted a study ....performing
a standardised ridden exercise test in an indoor school arena. After five
minutes active walk to warm up, the horses were ridden at a trot (3m/s) for
4.8km, followed by 1.6km at a canter (5m/s). This exercise schedule was
chosen to simulate a 45-minute work period of work typical of an
intermediate-level riding school horse.
The researchers measured heart rate, plasma lactate
concentration and creatine kinase. Lactate is produced in the muscles during
exercise. At low levels of work the body can metabolise it and so levels in
the plasma remain low. As the work level increases the rate of lactate
production exceeds the body's ability to remove it and so concentrations
rise. Creatine kinase (CK), an enzyme present in the muscles, is released
into the blood as a result of some types of muscle
damage.
... Plasma lactate levels were higher immediately after
exercise and 10 minutes after end of exercise, in horses that carried 30% of
their body weight....
...(more)... http://www.horsetalk.co.nz/news/2008/03/011.shtml
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Archive:
…old notices:
IMPORTANT
NOTE: Archived statements are superseded
and likely not relevant, especially in terms of price deals. E.g. discount
price offers will not be current with no recourse or discussion on old
pricing accepted.
Monday,
7th August 2020
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We
are on a short break …
… away Thursday and Friday
10th and 11th September, back P.M. Monday
14th.
😉
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Tuesday,
12th May 2020
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New
lactate test tidbit below!
Janssen again from p 66…
The classic table of lactate pulse-rate
“work” (training type) prescription …
Scroll down or click here!
😉
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Tuesday,
18th August 2020
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Shipment
broke records,
arrived
Friday 14/8
Ten
days earlier than expected.
All backorders out same day.
Should be in your hands today at latest (Tuesday, 18/8/20). Please contact asap if yours has not
arrived!
Shipment
of strips due week of Monday 24th August
Could be here earlier however
just in case there are handling bottlenecks that we have been hearing
happen to other importer-suppliers we do not want to over promise.
If you do not have a backorder
in with us and you are thinking that you do not need to test for a while it
could be better to think about buying now for your later needs.
A lot of this shipment is
pre-sold before it gets here and our next scheduled production with the
factory is not until December. It is possible we will run out again. So, if
you do not want to fall into the (infrequent) hole of us being sold-out,
best to hold a minimum quantity level re-order trigger yourself when you
still have some on-hand.
Won’t it be great to get back
to testing!
😉
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Tuesday,
7th July 2020
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Office
will be closed…
We are closed for a short break from
Midday, Tuesday 14th July
to Monday 20th July.
We are also scheduled to have
our roof replaced week of 20th July which could result in slow
response. Please bear with us and feel free to heads-up or chase-up your
query or order with a text or call to 027 22 724 22 … but only after Monday 20th
thanks!
😉
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Tuesday,
7th July 2020
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We
are low on strips …
If you have
not stocked up in the past month you will need to re-schedule your
requirements for testing to mid to late August.
Trajectory
of current demand has us cleaned out before the end of this month. Could be
next week!
Warning: There is an unknown re
speed of supply. We are hearing from other importer-distributor/retailers
that there are a lot of supply-chain issues (including shipping delays). As
this next shipment is the first since lockdown it is unknown the extent of
delay, if any, we will be confronted with in supplying you.
Our constant advice: Never run
out of your stock of strips before re-ordering; Don’t wait to re-order when
you urgently need them to find we are out of stock.
😉
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Tuesday,
12th May 2020
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Notices!
BIG SURPRISE…
… and last chance for best deal ever.
Calling all would be (should be)
self-testing athletes, a time for procrastination on long-time best
possible deal is over …
For 8 years we have offered YOU
the new LactatePro2 at the cost for us to land them here in NZ. Yep!
Not a dollar in it for us. You have had the lowest price in the world on
this world’s #1 selling lactate test device. We did this initially to help
those long-time customers who owned the original LactatePro(1) to
transition to the new! We found it worked better than other
advertising to market “LP2” and position it back also to be the dominant
device by far in NZ, helped by it being an easier Meter to use with stellar
accuracy and reliability in results ( … so long as your procedure is
well sorted and you forever review your technique no matter how long you’ve
been testing!).
We took a large shipment of LP2
Meters right before lockdown.
We’ve decided that 8 going on 9
years has been enough of a gift to NZ sport performance enthusiasts to “get
with the programme”. Secondly, we can no longer sustain to have cash tied
up in an item of stock that does not return us anything, so …
… the 8 year
cut rate deal on Meters ends at 5 pm Tuesday 30th June,
or, until current stock runs out.
Now is your last chance. Tell
your friends, they may kick you if you knew and they missed out!
Price increase imminent.
😉
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Newsflash: Thursday, 16th
April 2020
Newsflash!
We are back to work and “Covid ready” for
your total safety:
As soon as Prime Minister Ardern gives the
greenlight we
are now fully ready to take and send out your orders.
We have a good list of backorders which
will be processed and out on day-one.
Our safety assurance strategy:
1. Only
one person will handle ALL orders from warehouse to packaging, invoicing,
and dispatch.
2. All
our stock will be minimum one month old in storage come one month of
lockdown. Information is the virus does not survive on dry surfaces
anywhere near one month.
3. As
we take new shipments, older “zero-risk” stock will be sent out first,
therefore future new stock will be likely a month old by the time it gets
to you.
4. We
do now have a “shared office” situation with another business, however
there is no sharing of things such as invoice-paper or the printer.
5. An
obvious contamination link out of our hands is getting your order to you by
courier. All courier companies have been functioning through this lockdown
and appear well organised with safe practise. We use Aramex (Fastway) and
NZ Couriers. Check out their webpages for their compliance statements.
However, since your order obviously “rolls around” in contact with a lot of
other business and private product in the courier-van and you and I cannot
know the fastidiousness of everyone else in NZ sending goods you may wish
to investigate a policy of spraying on a compound and wiping it off the
external packaging that comes into your home or business!
6. If
anyone in this office comes down with any cold or flue-like
symptoms we would immediately shutdown and get
tested. If testing is negative and symptoms are not a match with “Covid” we would take down our self-imposed shutdown
notice and be back to serving you.
7. This
statement may be revised or added to at a later date.
As we’ve often
headlined with our promotions …
“Your health (and fitness) is your wealth!
Now you can see this to be no truer than TODAY …
… every day you can be sure you are improving your health, fitness, or
performance with a lactate test using LactatePro2.
Take care of yourself.
FYI: Did you know that a
lactate test is used overseas in A&E’s for sepsis (infection)
screening!
Keep an eye here for
important news to come soon!
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Thursday,
19th March 2020
Updated:
Thursday, 16th April 2020
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Notices!
1.
Shipment
new LP2 METERS in
(… a month ago!):
2. We are
taking pre break-out of lockdown forward orders at substantial DISCOUNT,
being at cost to land them here.
… yep no
profit whatsoever for us in clearing this stock, YOU WIN!
… ends
if we run out of stock, or …
… this
loss-lead offer will end the day lockdown is lifted and we can ship
to you.
You
must have ordered and paid by whatever day this will be!
😉
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Monday,
9th March 2020
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News!
Shipment LP2 METERS
finally on way!
IMPORTANT: IMMINENT MAJOR PRICE INCREASE
If you have been procrastinating it is time to
ORDER NOW.
We’ve had a lot of enquiries lately but no
commitment, with a “wait and see for when the ship gets in”, since
we’ve had no stock!
HOWEVER, after this shipment we have an
imminent, well overdue, and significant price increase to go on LP2
Meters. This price increase will
occur by whichever occurs first of the following…
… sold out of this coming shipment (could all go
in a few weeks to recent enquiries!)
… end of trade (5 pm) Thursday April 30th,
2020.
Rationale:
We have operated with a tactical commercial strategy since this
product upgrade launch on its world-wide release in 2012. We have not profited from sales of this
product (Meter) in eight years! We treated it as an exceptional “trade-in”
offer to existing users of the old original LP(1).
Effectively NZ users have been buying at the best deal in the world, as
though buying directly from the manufacturer themselves plus just the costs
to land them here. Test strip sales have somewhat subsidised this loss of income
to us from Meter sales. We wish to end this now, being our cash tied up in
stock of Meters not returning an income, to finally have them earn their
way. More importantly, no longer subsidising, this will help keep the cost of Lactate test strips down to existing users as our NZ$ slides in currency
exchange value and other costs of biz in NZ continue to increase.
By this, we will maintain offering to you the
best price in the world on lactate test consumables! … to help keep “us” at the top as one of
the smallest “homes” of the biggest number of champions in the world!
As bad as some current economic indices are
looking there
will be no increase in lactate test strip price from us in the foreseeable future this year!
😉
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Update:
Tuesday 11th February 2020
Update:
Monday 9th March 2020
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News!
Be aware: Office closures!
Office will be closed for
processing orders on …
Two short weeks coming up
before (and not counting) Easter!
1. Thursday 12th March 2020, mid-day, closed.
Re-open TUESDAY 17th March 2020.
You then have two full days to place an order and have processed from
Tuesday 17th! (Tuesday,
Wednesday, 1/2-day Thursday!)
2. Otago Anniversary:
Extending this with added annual leave from mid-day Thursday
19th to and including Monday 23rd March,
closed.
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Tuesday,
11th February 2020
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News!
New
lactate testing tidbit
Another “pearl” from a longtime favourite
Janssen …
A graphic depiction of the advantageous pace-shift, efficiency, and
endurance time that comes with improved metabolism of
fat for energy from untrained to trained condition.
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Wednesday,
13th November 2019
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News!
New tidbit!
I’ve loved the work of Peter Janssen for 30 years.
In particular his text “Training Lactate
Pulse-rate” which the equally world leading Polar HR Monitor company
took on and re-printed upto at least a 6th edition in 1995, the
current copy I have!
I can still pick it up and the penny will drop
on something, or, it is just so long since I first read it that I am not
quite re-membering and it is as per the first
time!
This tidbit highlights the amazing adaptability of an
individual (any of us!) from untrained to trained with respect to HR and
lactate threshold.
Scroll down or click here!
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Tuesday,
12th November 2019
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News!
1. Shipment is in!
Backorders went out same
day, last Friday, 8th, so you should have yours by now.
If your
order is on “PBD discounted” we’re awaiting your payment before sending!
2. We are within a year to
Olympics
Please
help us to help you by not running out of your own store of strips before
re-ordering. You know most of the time we can meet your urgent requirement,
but it does happen that we could run out for a month or so, any time, in
the run up to Olympics!
3. Price!
Pricing
this shipment fractionally lower for Carton Quantity purchases on “PBD
discounted” terms.
4. See new lactate testing tidbit:
Check-out below sage advice on LT-training by
middle-distance track athlete Norwegian Marius Bakken
Nb: His page not attended for a long time since
he has gone “doctoring”, his final post appearing to be 2010, but with his
comments on Kenyan and Moroccan dominance still ultimately relevant today!
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Thursday,
16th May 2019
Update:
Tuesday, 28th May 2019
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News!
1. Shipment in!
All backorders out
Wednesday and Thursday 22nd / 23rd, so you should
have had yours by the next day! Let me know if otherwise;
Unless we’re awaiting on your payment for orders at payment before dispatch additional discount pricing.
2. Order
now: Stock is going fast!
A month
of your backorders has cleaned out half the shipment. Trend continuing, we
could be out of stock again in a month or two: That’s 4 to 6 months’ supply
going double quick! This could mean near future 2 months out of stock as we cannot adjust forecast at factory
quicker than 4 months out!
3.
Keep
your own minimum stock:
Even if you don’t need them
now, best you order now rather than later to keep a minimum level of your
own back-up stock on-hand over the next year. Surging demand before Tokyo
Olympics appears to be upon us already!
4. See Shorty
Clark’s “story” below revealing
how
he has used our two spearhead products LactatePro and TANITA BIA monitors to great
advantage to go “10-in-a-row at
Kinloch NZ Championships” in an outstanding Masters
career. Click here: Shorty!
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Monday,
4th March 2019
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News!
1.
OFFICE
CLOSED: Thursday and Friday, 7th
and 8th March
inclusive.
Please place orders by end of trade
Wednesday, before 4pm, or if “PBD” discounted price terms are wanted, place
order by midday so that we have time to see your payment come through.
We’re back on-board Monday 11th
March.
2.
Stock-up:
Trajectory of demand shows that we will run out of stock before the next
shipment gets here in April.
Do not
wait to order only when you need them, hold your own minimum supply. The
long upto 18 months to expiry facilitates for you
to do this. Especially important to keep your own minimum supply if you
have important scheduled testing programmes. Please manage your own minimum
stock level right through to the starting guns firing, Olympic-time next
year, Tokyo-2020
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Wednesday, 6th December
2017
Extended
again: Monday, 4th March 2019
|
News!
“Class-set at landed cost
pricing” on LP-Meters is back for Term 1!
This previously exclusive “educational
offer” is now extended to anybody wanting 3 or more LactatePro2 Meters.
Only genuine enquiries will be engaged with for this pricing,
therefore we’ll be somewhat circumspect!
Ideal for classic teaching of
experimental method utilising a sport science context, suitable from senior
High School educational levels onward.
One Meter and strips can occupy
3 students being the Experimenter- recorder of data and timing, The Tester
takes the blood samples calling out numbers to record, and The Subject who
undertakes a work protocol on say a Treadmill, Exercycle, or Rowing
Ergometer. A before and after
Treatment can be engaged in, for example baseline data followed by the
effect of 8 weeks Training.
A class of 15 can be occupied
with 5 Meters.
Alternatively 10 of your sport
science (physical education) students can be occupied with 5 Meters if your
students are sent off to recruit a Subject from outside of their class,
e.g. someone from the school rowing, athletic, or cycling squad.
Add this to your 2018’s year
budget TODAY!
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Monday,
23rd January 2017
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News!
The trend since Rio carries on!
We ordered 50% more Meters than
we ever have with 2/3 gone either before they got here or within 2
weeks. Amazing! At current trend we are going to run out
before next shipment gets in, don’t procrastinate!
Something new:
Class Set Wholesale:
A confidential deal on sets for
educational exercise physiology (or other) labs is available: Minimum quantity = 5 Meters.
Such a minimum quantity was chosen
since it could meet the small number of students in labs of size 10 to 15
students with one each of tester, recorder, and subject.
Even Secondary “Sport Science”
students could do this with tester, recorder, and roping in a subject from
say the school rowing squad!
Just a personal view: All those in their last
year of school rowing wanting to maintain their interest and progress in
the sport would have their decision making greatly helped with a clear
lactate profile revealing performance improvement progress and potential
trajectory which is much better shown with a lactate profile rather than
all-out Erg tests which can wildly disguise capacities and potential for
improvement!
Contact us for the Educational Quantity Deal on 5 (or
more!):
Enquire
now: Email (click here!)
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Monday,
4th April 2016
We are still looking for a few more
“On-sellers” (retailers) in various areas around NZ: Contact us:
Email (click
here!)
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