Lactate Release, Concentration in Blood, and Apparent Distribution Volume after Intense Bicycling.
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- Published by Physiological Society of Japan in The Japanese Journal of Physiology
- Vol. 51 (3), 303-312
- https://doi.org/10.2170/jjphysiol.51.303
Abstract
To study the release of lactate from muscle and its relationship to the blood lactate concentration during and after intense bicycling, young men cycled at 5.5 W kg(-1) body mass for 2 min to exhaustion or stopped after 1 min (nonexhaustive ride). The leg's release of lactate during and after each ride was taken from the measured blood flow and lactate concentrations in arterial and femoral-venous blood. Muscle biopsies were taken in separate experiments and analyzed for lactate. During the bicycling, 6 to 10% of the lactate produced was released to the blood. During exercise and for the first few minutes after, the rate of lactate release did not differ between 2 min exhaustive and 1 min nonexhaustive bicycling. The integrated release (exercise plus recovery) for the 1 min bicycling was 60 to 80% of the corresponding value of the 2 min exhaustive bicycling. In the late recovery, the blood lactate concentration was 3 to 5 times higher after 2 min exhaustive bicycling than after the 1 min nonexhaustive bicycling. There was thus a mismatch between the amount of lactate released and measured concentration in blood, reflecting a smaller distribution volume after the exhaustive bicycling. The blood lactate concentration may therefore not be a good measure of the lactate production and anaerobic energy release during bicycling.Keywords
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