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Lactic Acid Nonsense!

Lactic Acid does NOT exist in our bodies… because it doesn’t exist in our bodies, it can’t be the reason we fatigue; this is a common misconception.

Important to Note: our body does produce lactate during energy production, but this is NOT lactic acid and it’s NOT the reason we fatigue either.

Why do we fatigue if lactic acid isn’t the reason?

We all produce energy and we all expend energy… if we expend it, faster than we produce it, we fatigue; it’s energy management that’s the key here, not lactic acid. If we increase our ability to produce energy then we increase our ability to expend energy; but energy management is still the key. Even well conditioned athletes will fatigue if energy production and energy expenditure is mismanaged.

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