Increased clearance of lactate after short-term training in men

A short-term training model previously shown to result in a tighter metabolic control in working muscle in the absence of an increase in mitochondrial potential was used to examine changes in lactate turnover. Lactate flux was studied before and after 10 days of cycle training [2 h/day at 59% maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max)] in untrained men [VO2max = 45.5 +/- 2.4 (SE) ml.kg-1.min-1). A primed constant infusion of L-[1-13C]lactate was used …