Track and Treadmill Lactate Assessments Are Not Interchangeable for Training Prescription in Elite Distance Runners
. Practitioners should apply this correction in both directions: when transferring treadmill-derived zones to track training, prescribed track velocities should be reduced by this margin; conversely, to replicate equivalent track intensity on a treadmill, treadmill speed should be raised by the same amount. The required correction is speed-dependent and increases at higher running velocities.
Authors
- Naoya Takei (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6412-9010)
- Fumiya Tanji (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3991-6772)
- Tetsuro Saeki
- Yasuhiro Suzuki
- Ryo Yamanaka
Institutions
- Kurume University (JP)
- Tokai University (JP)
- Japan Women's College of Physical Education (JP)
- Tokyo University of the Arts (JP)
- Tokyo Keizai University (JP)
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports
- Published
- 2026-04-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/sms.70286
- Primary Topic
- Sports Performance and Training
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00