The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
There are many lactate thresholds. So we might believe that lactate threshold could be the maximum effort you can sustain for 15 minutes or 20 minutes or the FTP. The FTP could be a way also of lactate threshold for a fate of 40K.
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FTP is defined as functional threshold power in cycling. We use it as the maximum power that can be sustained for 60 minutes or sometimes we do a 20-minute test and discount it by about 10%.
which is defined as the maximum power you can hold for one hour