Lactate step test: record a test

lactater

Fill it in during the test; it saves itself in this browser. Then download the file for lactater (or Excel). Nothing you type leaves your computer.

Athlete

Name Date Time of day Sport Sex Age (years) Body mass (kg)

The 24 to 48 h before

Last meal (time, what) Caffeine (mg, time) Training in the last 48 h Sleep, illness, other

Protocol

Ergometer Start (W) Increment (W) Stage duration (min) Pause for sampling (s) Treadmill grade (%) Sampling site Sample (as your analyzer measures it) Analyzer, calibrated at Room (°C, % humidity) RPE scale Tester

Stages sample in the last 30 s of each stage, heart rate and RPE in the same window

Stage	Intensity (W)	Clock time	Lactate (mmol/L)	Heart rate (bpm)	RPE	Notes

End of the test and recovery recovery samples are for Stegmann's threshold

Why it ended Time in the last stage (s) Peak heart rate (bpm)

Minutes after the end	Lactate (mmol/L)

Notes

In R

library(lactater)
test <- read_recording("the-file.xlsx")
results <- lactate_threshold(
  test$stages, intensity, lactate, heart_rate, rpe_column = rpe, rpe_scale = test$rpe_scale,
  sport = test$sport, sample = test$sample, plot = FALSE
)
test_report(results, athlete = test$athlete, protocol = test$protocol)