”Lactate is something that goes up with intense exercise. The - TopicsExpress

”Lactate is something that goes up with intense exercise. The ability to tolerate lactate is in some camps referred to as ‘anaerobic power’ – the ability to generate a high amount of high-intensity work and be able to tolerate the metabolic consequences. So, if you repeatedly block the ability of that horse to go into a higher level of anaerobic metabolism, then you’re defeating its ability to develop the tolerance for more and more hard work.”