During intense or prolonged exercise, muscles can feel like they’re burning the longer and harder someone pushes. This occurs because the muscles produce energy as quickly as possible by dipping into ...

If you're an endurance athlete, your lactate threshold can be an incredibly useful training tool – but what exactly is it, and how can you measure and use it? Lactate is created when muscle tissue ...

People often discuss the importance of removing, or “flushing out,” lactic acid from the blood after intense exercise to reduce muscle soreness, speed recovery, or boost athletic performance. After ...

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have produced evidence that an internal waste-product of exercise called lactate may help fight cancer. Jinming Gao, a professor in the Harold C. Simmons ...

Science has confirmed that exercise is good for the brain. It increases blood flow, inhibits stress hormones, and stimulates the release of “feel-good” endorphins. One way exercise is thought to yield ...

Lactate has taken a beating over the years. Blamed for soreness, fatigue, and that jelly-leg feeling after a brutal set. We’ve all heard the myth: "Your legs are toast because of lactic acid." Wrong.

Threshold work is one of the cornerstones of training for runners who are tackling all manner of distances, from 800m on the track to day-long ultramarathons on the trails. But while all runners can ...

The immune system can work in two ways: the innate immune system reacts to any foreign invaders that are identified by immune cells that look for such pathogens; but the acquired or adaptive immune ...