I understand how lactate works to a certain degree, but the important thing is that you can burn that lactic acid by cooling/warming down after a workout (ie walking after a footrace).
I’ve heard that built-up lactic acid helps build muscle if you keep it, but I’ve also heard that it’s good to burn asap after a workout.
So after hypertrophy weight-training, should I be somehow cooling down my muscles?
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In anaerobic metabolism – active either when you’ve maxed out your aerobic metabolism or when you are using fast-twitch muscle fibers to do high strength moves – the muscles will burn glucose and produce lactate.
That lactate is cleared out of the muscles and is burned by other tissues in the body. The ability to clear lactate quickly is something that endurance athletes train for as it allows them to produce more power.
Lactate is what makes the muscles burn. It generally takes a few minute at most to clear out.
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