Steady-state or threshold workouts, performed at a level where lactate production equals clearance, improve lactate clearance capacity.

“Now, we know if we give lactate to an exercising person, that it will spare glucose. And that helps the person exercise.”

“So, we have discovered that lactate's produced all time, at rest and during exercise as well, and athletes actually produce more than people who are less capable or less highly trained. But, they remove it. They use it.”

“And you can see, as people do their endurance training, their lactate level for a given power output really falls. So, that allows them, then, to ramp up their training and ramp up their competitive pace and then be able to function effectively at a higher power output.”

“So, the classic training response that people have is to have a lower lactate at any power output. So, if I would compare myself to a young, healthy athlete, that athlete would actually be producing more lactate than I would be, but my lactate level would be really high because I'm limited in my ability to take it up and use it, whereas the athlete is superior in terms of clearing lactate and using it as a fuel, and using it as a gluconeogenic precursor.”

“doing what would be called kind of steady state or threshold workouts is kind of one way to do that where you're you're exercising at that point where lactate levels are just above kind of the steady state so you're working on you know where lactate production equals lactate clearers doing those type of what would be called lactate threshold workouts that seems to obviously be a good way to improve your lactate clearance capacity”