Reply from George A. Brooks, Harry B. Rossiter, David C. Poole and L. Bruce Gladden

Affiliations

¹ Exercise Physiology Laboratory, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
² Rehabilitation Clinical Trials Center, Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Physiology and Medicine, and The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA.
³ Departments of Kinesiology and Anatomy and Physiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA.
⁴ School of Kinesiology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA.

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George A Brooks et al. J Physiol. 2021 Mar.

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. 2021 Mar;599(5):1711-1712.

doi: 10.1113/JP281335. Epub 2021 Feb 7.

¹ Exercise Physiology Laboratory, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
² Rehabilitation Clinical Trials Center, Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Physiology and Medicine, and The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA.
³ Departments of Kinesiology and Anatomy and Physiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA.
⁴ School of Kinesiology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA.

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Keywords: critical power; gas exchange threshold; glycolysis; lactate; lactate threshold; oxygen (O2).

Comment on

The anaerobic threshold: 50+ years of controversy.
Poole DC, Rossiter HB, Brooks GA, Gladden LB. Poole DC, et al. J Physiol. 2021 Feb;599(3):737-767. doi: 10.1113/JP279963. Epub 2020 Nov 19. J Physiol. 2021. PMID: 33112439
In support of the continued use of the term anaerobic threshold.
MacIntosh BR, MacDougall KB, Falconer TM, Holash RJ. MacIntosh BR, et al. J Physiol. 2021 Mar;599(5):1709-1710. doi: 10.1113/JP281262. Epub 2021 Jan 28. J Physiol. 2021. PMID: 33507551 No abstract available.

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