Combined Lactate Threshold & VO₂ Max Test (Bike)

The combined Lactate Threshold and VO₂ Max assessment is the most comprehensive physiological test to provide guidance to your training and performance. By measuring how your body responds to increasing intensity, Elevate removes the guesswork from your training, allowing you to train with absolute precision, with enhanced data and report feedback.

What to Expect During Your Assessment

During this 90 minute session, you will complete multiple stages on your bike connected to a Wahoo, at incrementally increasing power, but can be completed on a fixed cycle ergometer if preferred. Throughout the test, your breathing is measured via metabolic gas analysis to track oxygen consumption. At the end of each stage, a small, sterile pinprick blood sample is taken from your earlobe or finger to measure lactate accumulation.

The protocol progresses through your lactate threshold (LT1 /aerobic threshold) and lactate turnpoint (LT2 /anaerobic threshold), concluding when you reach your maximal oxygen uptake (VO₂ max). This process allows for the understanding of your entire physiological profile across power and individualising your physiological intensity training zones.

What This Assessment Gives You

This assessment provides a complete blueprint of your current fitness and your future potential. Your results include:

• Full Lactate and Heart Rate Profile: Pinpoint exactly how your body reacts to different intensities.
• Maximal Oxygen Uptake (VO₂ max): Discover your cardiorespiratory capacity.
• Power at VO₂ (pVO₂ max): The functional performance aspect that relates your VO₂ max to performance. 
• Precision Training Zones: Get definitive, lactate anchored pace zones based on your unique physiological responses, not generic estimates.
• Energy efficiency: Measure how efficiently you use oxygen to produce power.
• Fuel Utilisation (Fat & Carbohydrate Oxidation): Understand your energy expenditure to optimise your race-day nutrition and metabolic efficiency.
• Sub-maximal Oxygen Responses: Insights into your aerobic base and endurance durability.

Personalised Reporting and Scientific Strategy 

Following your session at Hustle Wymondham, you will receive an individualised summary report within 48 hours. Every report is bespoke, based on your specific physiological responses and your primary performance goals.

Before and after the test, we will have a brief discussion to ensure your results are contextualised for your sport and based on your information that is relevant and important to you, with opportunity to discuss your report after you have digested the information.