General Enquiry
General Enquiry
30 minutes
Includes a lactate threshold assessment, personalised training zones, and a detailed report detailing training recommendations based upon your test results.

What you’ll find here is everything you need to know about Lactate Threshold Testing at Hooke Fitness—how to prepare, what happens during the test, safety measures, interpreting your results and next-step recommendations. If there are any other questions, just let our team know.
Lactate Threshold testing pinpoints the exercise intensity—power output and heart-rate—at which lactate starts accumulating faster than your body can clear it. This gives you a precise marker of your sustainable performance limit, allowing you to train smarter, race stronger, and optimise your endurance capacity.
- Improves Endurance Efficiency
Train at exactly the right intensity to boost your ability to sustain higher workloads for longer—delaying fatigue and pushing your performance ceiling further.
- Personalised Training Zones
Receive personalised power and heart-rate training zones data, so every workout is optimised for aerobic development, threshold work, or recovery.
In our performance lab, you’ll perform a step protocol on the stationary bike or treadmill. Each stage increases in intensity while we take small fingertip blood samples to measure lactate concentrations. We identify your threshold at the inflection point where lactate rises sharply — giving you actionable data for programming your training.
- Avoid Food and Drink
Do not eat or drink anything except water for 4 hours before your test.
- No Stimulants
Skip caffeine, nicotine, and other stimulants within 4 hours of testing.
- Limit Exercise
Rest fully on the day of your test—no intense workouts or long efforts – as you will be undertaking a maximal output test.
Lactate Threshold testing pinpoints the exercise intensity—power output and heart-rate—at which lactate starts accumulating faster than your body can clear it. This gives you a precise marker of your sustainable performance limit, allowing you to train smarter, race stronger, and optimise your endurance capacity.
Train at exactly the right intensity to boost your ability to sustain higher workloads for longer—delaying fatigue and pushing your performance ceiling further.
Receive personalised power and heart-rate training zones data, so every workout is optimised for aerobic development, threshold work, or recovery.
In our performance lab, you’ll perform a step protocol on the stationary bike or treadmill. Each stage increases in intensity while we take small fingertip blood samples to measure lactate concentrations. We identify your threshold at the inflection point where lactate rises sharply — giving you actionable data for programming your training.

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