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Creation of a graph that depicts the relationship between blood lactate levels, oxygen consumption, and heart rate during exercise.
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So right here, we have our lactate threshold.
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I'm going to indicate that in green, the circle.
00:18
Right here is our lactate threshold, when our graph slowly increases and then spikes.
00:25
So for our first question, why is lactate always being? produced even when exercise is relatively moderate.
00:37
So this is because red blood cells will always produce lactate, as will fast twitch muscle fibers.
00:49
So lactate is always being produced.
01:02
Even when you're not sprinting or you're not doing extreme exercise, lactate will always be produced by your red blood cells and by those fast twitch muscles.
01:13
For the second question, when this lactate level begins to rise really rapidly, when you reach the lactate threshold, what's going on here? so when you reach this lactate threshold, that's when your body is switching from aerobic.
01:31
So you're switching from aerobic to anaerobic respiration.
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How do we know this? we know this because anaerobic respiration, anaerobic glycolysis, will still produce pyruvate.
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But that pyruvate goes into fermentation to produce lactate.
02:01
So when you are anaerobically respirating, you are producing a ton of lactate because you are respirating anaerobically.
02:09
You're going right from glycolysis into your lactic acid fermentation...