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slowandsteady on March 13, 2023 at 6:08 am · in reply to: Adjust Zones When AeT Increases? #76293

Jared, I believe the closet your aet is to your ant, the more aerobically fit you are. So your aet, in general, increases as you get fitter

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slowandsteady on January 13, 2023 at 12:57 pm · in reply to: Aerobic Threshold Testing #74613

Nose breathing or easy pace did not correlate closely at all with my actual Aet. I tested mine in a lab, but I can nose breathe and run for quite a while like 30bpm higher than my lab aet. https://uphillathlete.com/forums/topic/my-lab-testing-and-questions-very-aerobically-deficient/

So I’d recommend getting a lab test

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slowandsteady on October 21, 2022 at 10:29 am · in reply to: Question about determining AeT and AnT #71757

MAF OVER estimated my AeT by about 35 bpm. And I could breathe through my nose and talk well above my AeT, but apparently that’s not uncommon with athletes who’s training history was all high intensity and going all out

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slowandsteady on October 12, 2022 at 1:53 pm · in reply to: Diet advice on website vs. book #71503

Bumping because I fall into this camp: “ Me make clear on our articles in testing that while we have seen, in hundreds of tests where we compare ventilation to blood lactate, a good correlation. However some people, especially those with a history of high intensity training and thus a low aerobic capacity don’t fit into this model. I can’t explain why and have asked several exercise scientists why this would be. None of them know either.”

I can breath through my nose, say the abc’s, etc at a HR of around 140ish, so I thought that was around what my AeT was. Then I got a lab test, and fats/carbs crossed at 111bpm, and lactate crossed 2mmol at 108mmol.

No wonder it felt like I was spinning wheels/not improving when I was doing all my training at 125-140bpm!

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slowandsteady on August 28, 2022 at 10:33 am · in reply to: My lab testing and Questions (VERY aerobically deficient?) #70299

Thanks everyone. I do have the raw data (with grams of fat) packed away somewhere but can’t find it out…. I’ve been in the process of moving. I do have some metabolic issues. I think a lot of it is from drinking too much so I’m working on cutting that out, and may try keto for a while.

Anyways, I started training again several days ago. Am just walking on a steady 3 deg incline every day. And twice on Saturday and a “long” walk on Sunday. Every week I will slightly increase the time. Also, every week I will increase the max I allow my heart rate to go by 1bpm under the assumption my aerobic threshold is improving. There are still some occasional seemingly random spikes, but hey, that happens. So after a few months of this I’ll test again and hopefully see large improvement. I’m being SUPER conservative so not doing weights for now or anything that will spike my hr above aerobic threshold.

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slowandsteady on August 16, 2022 at 10:54 am · in reply to: My lab testing and Questions (VERY aerobically deficient?) #69948

thanks Jeremy. Have been just going on walks with my heart rate between 100-111 bpm.

The plan will be to bump up mileage a bit every week…. and raise the ceiling on my heart rate every week. So next week I’ll try and stay below 112 bpm. So in about 5 months, under the assumption that my aerobic threshold is slowly rising, I’ll stay below 130ish.

Hopefully my aerobic threshold can improve that quickly.