Lactate Vs Heart Rate

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The human body goes through many different changes while performing exercises. This is done in order to protect the body from the stress that is going to be enduring. The lactate in the blood is one of the many changes that happens in the body this occurs when the participant of the exercise begins to increase the workload but the body is no longer using oxygen to create ATP. Lactate threshold is when the body is no longer capable of taking out more lactate form the blood and the level start to rise rapidly. This calculation is used to measure the fitness of an individual. In this lab we will be comparing RPE with heart rate and blood lactate while increasing workload.

For this lab we had two participants, both male subject two being very

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