Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Acid Test For Runners - A New Look at Lactic Acid

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/16/health/nutrition/16run.html
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A truly fascinating look at the latest research in the role lactic acid plays in the excercise cycle. Who knew physiology and bio-chemistry could be so scintillating?

I love the premise that hard speed work will actually increase the number of your mitochondria after you build a base of long endurance runs. The best coaches have been instinctively right for decades while the scientists have basically gotten it backwards!

A tip of the hat to all those coaches and athletes whose instictive training methods and keen powers of observation led them by default to the correct training methods.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just love the sound of a man using the word scintillating....

3:08:00 PM  

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