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Tuesday, 19th
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emergency then we do find it hard to say no, therefore to everyone the
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Monday, 7th October 2024.
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Arkray LactatePro2
*New*
Purchaser and User T&C’s
First edition: Monday 7th October 2024
These terms and conditions are “new” since for 26 years we
had not considered that we needed them. A recent event has changed our
mind.
First, a brief on the incomparable perfect track-record of
faultless production quality of Arkray LactatePro2 (LP2) of Japan and our
Distribution to users here in New Zealand.
LP2 Meters and test strips (sensors) imported and sold to
users in NZ have been 100% faultless for 26 years.
In this over Ľ Century we have had about half dozen
claims on Meters and about same number on test strips. The faults all came
under user damaged or incorrect user method, not following the
instructions. E.g. User dropped Meter in muddy creek water, only admitting
this to us after we went to the trouble of having the lab in Japan analyse
this. And, leaving strips in car on hot summer day “cooking” them.
In the early days we trialled 3 other brands with none of
them standing up to LP2 reliability or the multiple business requirements
of importing and supply. We’ve seen several other brands come and go. LP2
with a perfect record has been too hard to beat and it was not so much our
decision in early days but the preference of NZ users that decided LP2
supremacy for us!
Obviously with such a stela unbeatable record (cannot
beat 100%!) we want to ensure LP2 reputation continues. These T&Cs set
out our position and requirements with purchasers and users with respect to
natural and expected “transfer of care and responsibility”.
In a nutshell, in NZ faulty LP2 from manufacturing error
and supply just DOES NOT HAPPEN.
1.
If you are obtaining
unexpected or clearly erroneous measures, then first consider LP2’s
perfect 26-year track-record. Look to errors in your own sampling method.
After 30 years since launch of the very first brand of handheld portable
lactate meter, this writer in getting an out-of-order measure, still looks
to where he has stuffed up in taking the blood sample or mishandling the
test strip etc. It is easy to botch at least one in an assessment and is
simply resolved by expecting to do the basic-science method of “repeated
measures” of any load step you are on. (Except of course not much fun
re-doing paces beyond Threshold, but those paces above arguably not so
important).
2.
Take great care of your Meter
adhering strictly to all use and care instructions. Your Meter is a precision
instrument and very sensitive. Just one of half a dozen different
failures in care that we have received back here was a user destroyed their
Meter by dropping blood directly into the test-strip port. Iron in the
blood “attacked” the rare mineral electrodes. It is unrepairable! We had to send this all the way back to
Tokyo technical lab to have this proven and exonerate Arkray product from
the allegation of faulty manufacture. Warranty replacement claim NOT
upheld.
((More on Terms to come: Been strapped for time to put
mind on this. Work in progress!))
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Lactate testing tidbits…
Wednesday, 13th March 2024.
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Lactate
Testing Tidbits:
1. Tips for first time users:
Ř We have more demand from self-testing athletes
than ever. This is great for the athlete’s career
and us; however we do have some reservations. The method requires practise
to achieve skill and precision in technique of blood sampling. And then,
sensible interpretation.
It is like learning to drive a car: At first it
is stressful and too many things to think about. After years of practise
the method and rules and safety monitoring of a dangerous 100km/hour
metal-can on rubber becomes more automatic, more accurate, safer!
Until your lactate testing method is honed
errors in measurement are likely to creep in.
We recommend that before deciding to buy and
DIY you first get tested by a professional so that you can observe method
and be sure of your accurate baseline. The benefit of hiring an expert is
that you then get qualified interpretation of all points along your results
(graph!).
You can find professional providers on our opt
in list. Look for link top left of this page or manually scroll way-down.
If you then decide to go it alone with your own
Meter, when you first get it, just sit at the kitchen table and use up Ľ
packet of strips to try and get the exact same Resting Lactate Value each
time. Read the instruction sheet over-and-over to iron out errors.
The quality of Arkray Lactate Pro and then Pro2
from 26 years ago has been impeccable.
We have had no Meters or strips faulty from manufacture. In all
these years we have only had half-dozen Meters returned faulty to find they
were all user damaged. e.g. “Meter dropped in muddy-water creek, not
working when dried out!”. Faulty
strips were finally admitted to have been kept in an overheated car in the
middle of summer!
From this stand-out quality record our default
response to claims the Meter is not giving accurate results is to suggest
an examination of the user’s method / technique.
Happy testing!
😉
Find out more:
info@lactate.co.nz
2. Tidbit # 2:
An
athlete’s project to close on 14:30 for 5k from a base of 14:54 using LP2
guidance: A champion Norwegian brothers method! Starring Sibren Lochs
On
YouTube: Click on image!
Regards
KJG
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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 (Florř 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 a “100 day Marathon Plan” designed for “anybody” here: http://www.marathontrainingschedule.com/
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.
For a dose of
motivation whatever your chosen sport go here…
Click: Shorty!
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!
______________________
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 Ľ, 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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card size form, it is small enough to allow measurement anywhere and boasts
increased performance for the rapid measurement of lactate.
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physiology, sports science and training. The simple and rapid testing of
lactate is a big benefit to both research and medicine.
To answer the needs of the market, ARKRAY released the Lactate Pro TM
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ARKRAY will continue to answer diverse testing needs in the market.
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Main features of the Lactate Pro™ 2
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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
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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
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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 are also Medical and Equine/Veterinary
applications – KJG, BM&S Imports-NZ.)
Product features:
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Lactate
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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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3V
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50mm(W)
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Approx.
45g (Incl. batteries)
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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.
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
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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NorthTec - Northland
Polytechnic
Ady Ngawati
Ph 459 5241
Paul Sykes
Ph 459 5251
BM&S Product Services: Lactate
Preferred Clients: Weight
loss; Athletes – Metabolic assessment.
Credits:
Auckland
Mairangi Bay
Joe McQuillan
Millenium Institute
of Sport & Health; TriathlonNZ Support Services
Ph 524 6957
BM&S Product Services: Lactate
Hamilton
Waikato Institute of
Technology
Adrian Pooley
Ph 834 8800 x 8658; 021
1157 7457
BM&S Product Services: Lactate
Tauranga:
Rotorua
Taupo
Palmerston North
IFNHH Faculty, Massey
University
Matt Barnes
Human Performance Lab
Ph 356 9099 x 7637
http://ifnhh.massey.ac.nz/sportexercise/
BM&S Product Services: Lactate
Testing (LP)
Preferred Client:
Wellington
Fitlab
Andrew Jamieson
Ph 0800
21 FitLab (21 348 522) ; 021 348 847
www.fitlab.co.nz
BM&S Product Services: Lactate; TANITA InnerScan Segmental
Body Composition Analysis.
Christchurch
College of Education,
University of Canterbury
Gavin Blackwell
Ph 345 8173
BM&S Product Services: Lactate;
Canterbury University –
Recreation Services
Stephen Rickerby
Ph 03 364 2987 x 8650
BM&S Product Services: Lactate
Queenstown
Sportbase Ltd
Sam Thompson
Ph 021 921 114
www.sportbase.co.nz
BM&S Product Services: Lactate Testing
Preferred Client:
Frankton
Proactive Physiotherapy
Ltd
Sonya Anderson
Ph 03 442 7667
BM&S Product Services: Lactate Testing; TANITA InnerScan Segmental
Body Composition Analysis.
Preferred Client:
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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.
Updated: Friday, 1st August 2024.
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Important Announcements
#2.
New
shipment “early-bird” deals EXTENDED to Saturday 31st August
Shipment arrived a month ago
All back-orders out within 2 days
About Ľ of our high-use customer-users are away in Paris.
“Early-bird”
deals EXTENDED
Decided to give our highest performing customers time to get back and
re-stock at the advantage of cut-rate deals that will be replaced 1st
September by substantial price increases.
We have advantaged NZ with world’s best prices for a very long time,
27 years! This needs end while we find a successor after a long dedication
to that advantage to sport and tertiary academic research with low-cost
lactate testing. We deserve a decent return as we prepare to move on.
A note on pricing included with orders up to 31st August
will highlight how dramatic has been the cost savings to NZ with price
comparison to overseas!
This could be the last “early-bird” cut-rate price deals EVER.
A new distributor may not ever see that as sensible.
So, especially to this year’s enquiring procrastinators this very
likely is THE LAST CHANCE TO GET YOURSELF THE BEST DEAL EVER!
Order to orders@lactate.co.nz
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Monday, 14th August 2023.
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Standing
Notice:
Ř Google GMAIL:
Standing notice, at least until and if ever Google stop their anti-business
hostile nonsense: Original notice,
10th July 2023. This update
14 August 2023.
Please if at all possible DO NOT contact us using
gmail.
Gmail
has become a nightmare of timewasting for us this year, and I’m hearing
this also for many other NZ small businesses (and I suspect it is all over
the world!). I see where Google have been taken to Court in the EU for
anti-competitive business practises.
What
happens is that you send us a gmail and we reply to soon-after receive mail
back that our reply to you has been blocked. It is outrageous that they are
playing ignorant that our message is a REPLY to you. When I get this
blocked notice I’m forced to do a forward of my reply to you via a personal
“hotmail” address!
We
get a lot of mail and with this essentially malicious mechanism Google are
running it is difficult to track whether we’ve done justice to all
correspondence with everyone. I try! But my feeling is that some may have
emailed to us and maybe have not got a reply!
Please
use a “Hotmail” address, or get yourself a Microsoft “Outlook” account, or
other “domain” (work-place) email address, and also preferably DO NOT use a
“yahoo” address, they’re another nightmare for other reasons!
If
you have to use gmail, a reply will either turnup later via my personal
“Hotmail” or you might not get one at all. Options are to try again or use
Facebook Messenger (which however, we only periodically monitor, so maybe
slow to get a response!)
Thanks
so much for your help in anticipation that you can adapt to this.
Regards
KJG
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Saturday, 1st June 2024.
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Below Are Two Most Important
Announcements we’ve ever made!
1. This NZ
Arkray LactatePro2 Distributorship is FOR SALE:
“The time has come,” the Walrus said
…
36
years self-employed, including 27 years the NZ distributor of Arkray
Global’s world leading LactatePro and LactatePro2, this owner of BM&S
Imports-lactate.co.nz wants to retire. And we feel it is well due time
having had a great run, but as well it is well deserved that Arkray have
fresh blood to invigorate the existing brand dominance we’ve created here:
To bring fresh energy with perhaps more market penetration on top of what
is well established.
We
believe we have a very reasonable fair purchase value in mind that
also takes account of these current stark recessionary times.
Two
stage process:
1. First your expression of
interest to us to be followed by your first application that
needs to satisfy us your capability to meet requirements.
2. Second application to Arkray
Global
that we assist you with.
NOTE:
This LP2 single product distributorship component of our business BM&S Imports
IS NOT a stand-alone business. You should already have a business whereby
Arkray LP2 becomes a new income stream added to it. That is, it will work
profitably very well for you as an additive product if you already have
your known fixed costs of operating a business in NZ covered and accounted
for by an existing business. i.e. Such standard things to be already
covered by your biz as premises rental, company vehicle, power, phones,
insurance, etc already paid for by existing business.
Essentially
any enquiry (expression of interest) with a view to use this single
distributorship as your start-up for a new business will almost be
guaranteed not to be considered.
MORE
DETAILS HERE SOON.
Enquiries
to: info@lactate.co.nz with “Expression of
Interest” in the “Subject” panel.
_________________________________________
2. Pre
shipment landing “early-bird deals” on again NOW!
METERS and test strips (sensors) are at now what
will be CUT RATE DEAL come shipment landing by July with offer ending July.
Beat
the price rise of +14%!
We
cannot hold our prices down any longer, slammed everywhere we turn like
everyone else with costs to business and cost of living. Just got another
courier co. cost hike yesterday. Additionally, we have now woken up to see
the x-rate adjusted price that most are paying overseas is
equivalent to NZ$144 pp (25)! You know we have never charged
anything like that. So! …conclusion is we can no longer sustain survival
pricing levels.
All
those enquiries we have had that are still procrastinating over METER purchase
the deal now will never be better. NOW is the time.
The
“early-bird deal” is …
You
must ORDER and pay BEFORE the shipment gets here (before 1st
July).
EMAIL
now to enquire of “the deal”: info@lactate.co.nz
.
3. ETD new
shipments of METERS and long expiry strips is LATE JUNE backorders out
early July!
Estimate
only. It is Olympic Year!
Regards
KJG
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Bulletin(s):
4. Sport Science Services
– NZ-wide LP2 Test provider listing update:
We are pleased to confirm a listing update today for Dr Chris
Harvey of University of Otago, School of Physical Education, Sport
and Exercise Sciences, Dunedin.
The revised
entry looks like this below:
Dunedin
School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise
Sciences
https://www.otago.ac.nz/sopeses/exercise-testing
Dr Chris Harvey (Exercise Metabolism)
chris.harvey@otago.ac.nz
Ph 022 067 9308
Services included but not limited to: Lactate analysis
(LT1, LT2, 2mmol), VO2max; Efficiency or economy, substrate utilisation and
energetics; Body composition, Bioimpedance (BIA), underwater weighing
skinfolds; environmental acclimation, heat tolerance testing.
BM&S Product
Services: Lactate
Testing; TANITA InnerScan Segmental Body Composition
Analysis.
Updated: Friday 8th September 2023.
Ř Apology that we’re behind in our work which
includes verifying and updating who is still offering public LP2 testing
services remainder 2023.
Ř As we go through the old list verifying
services, we’ll be adding an “Updated” date to each entry so that you will
have some idea how current or old a listing is!
😉
Look for a service in your area and contact them
NOW!
Jump to the list (… being mindful that it may have
an obsolete contact nearest you!): Click
here!
Regards
KJG
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Tuesday, 14th February 2023.
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Edited: 19/4/2023.
Foreseeable Office Closures 2023
FEBRUARY:
We are CLOSED Thursday and Friday, 16th and
17th February.
MARCH:
We are CLOSED Friday 17th through Tuesday 21st March
Includes Otago Anniversary Long Weekend!
MAY:
We are CLOSED for near THREE WEEKS from Wednesday
3rd May through Monday 22nd May
INCLUSIVE.
That is, next full-day open for business will be Tuesday 23rd May.
Best order strategy with
our planned away periods this year and inevitable stock run-outs due to
supply chain issues is to plan your purchasing well-before you need
them. Best to order now, early, when you do not know when you
need them! The other matter is that we have evermore
institutional and national organisations who are big buyers that can have
the effect on our stock of seeming we have plenty for months on one day, to
having to stretch out the remainder by rationing to everyone else the next
day, with 2 months before the next delivery! If you are low or out
right now, order now. They keep well in the fridge for years and I have
used them well after expiry to find them reliable for 2 years post-expiry
which is when I ran out of them! So, who knows how long “expired” can be
good for! We just ask not to use expired in publishable research
as happened in Australia some years back creating a debacle!
Help us to help you, order early, today! 😉
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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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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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