Allied Health Service
Banff Sport Medicine offers a variety of performance and physiology testing to help optimize your training.
We provide you with meaningful data that will help you understand your baseline, individualize your training, and maximize your potential.
Lactate testing is a method of measuring appropriate cardiovascular
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The lactate levels are used to determine your ideal heart rate zones and workload at given intensities so that you can optimize the time and effort you put into training. With established aerobic and anaerobic thresholds, you are able to target your training to maximize the adaptations in your cardiovascular system to improve your performance.
Your initial testing session at the Banff Sport Medicine clinic will be 75-90 minutes in length.
It will begin with resting baseline measures where you will be fitted with a chest heart rate monitor and become familiar with the lactate sampling process.
The test itself is typically completed while running or cycling and begins with a 10 minute warm up phase followed by 6-9 stages that are each 3-5 minutes in length. At the end of each 3-5 minute stage, your blood lactate will be sampled and heart rate recorded.
Following completion of the test, you will receive a results package that includes the raw data from your test and an outline of your heart rate zones relative to your lactate at each intensity. You can then use this data to inform your training.
As cardiovascular performance improves with training, the heart rate that is required to reach aerobic and anaerobic threshold often changes as well.
As a result, many athletes find that routine lactate testing (e.g. every 3-6 months) provides meaningful data to inform their heart rate training zones.
No referral is needed to book and appointment.
Call 403 760 2897 ext 3 or book online here.