Research review by Alki X Gym trainer Aaron Wagar “Lactate—a signal coordinating cell and systemic function” Andrew Philip, Adam L. Macdonald, & Peter W. Watt For many years, the scientific, medical, athletic communities and the general population have accepted the fact that lactate is a just a by-product created by exercising muscle fibers. It was…

Inspired by a recent review done by Timothy Noakes, an exercise physiologist out of South Africa, I will be discussing what is to me at least, a relatively new model of fatigue. In school, I was taught that “exercise induced fatigue” was purely failure of the muscular system to maintain a given intensity of work.…