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Lactic Acid is Your Friend: Part One

 
  • Lactic Acid is Your Friend: Part One
  • August 30, 2010 10:46 AM
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Everything you have ever been taught about lactic acid (or lactate) is wrong. Of course everyone has heard something along the following lines:
 
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  • August 30, 2010 01:28 PM
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Great stuff!

I totally remember coaches telling us to go shower and stretch after practice to “get that lactic acid” out of our muscles. It’s funny how one one study can alter the thinking about a compound so drastically, both good and bad.
 
 
 
  • RE:Lactic Acid is Your Friend: Part One
  • August 30, 2010 03:56 PM
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Great article Matt, this is one of the biggest misnomers in sports. Brooks’ research is definitely ground-breaking and it’s good to see someone setting the record straight. I’ve got to count to 10 to keep stop myself from bitchslapping every coach I hear say those stupid things.
 
 
 
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  • August 30, 2010 06:34 PM
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Good read Mjohnson knows his stuff!
 
 
 
  • RE:Lactic Acid is Your Friend: Part One
  • August 31, 2010 07:59 AM
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Yeah good stuff a good thing to touch on after this series would be cortisol.