Contributions by the Cologne group to the development of lactate exercise testing and anaerobic threshold concepts in the 1970s and 1980s.

In 1976, Prof. Wildor Hollmann's group published a paper on lactate performance tests in I Sportarzt und Sportmedizin i (Mader I et al i . 1976), 3 years after a key paper by Wasserman I et al i . on the ventilatory anaerobic threshold (Wasserman I et al i . 1973). Keywords: anaerobic threshold; exercise; lactate EN anaerobic threshold exercise lactate 1713 1714 2 03/03/21 20210301 NES 210301 I have enjoyed reading the excellent review on the anaerobic threshold celebrating the abundant work arising from the premise originally put forward by Prof Karlman Wasserman (Poole I et al i . 2021). In summary, to me the Cologne group around Profs Wildor Hollmann, Alois Mader and Hermann Heck has made important contributions to exercise physiology, including the development of modern lactate exercise testing, the conceptualization of lactate-based thresholds and a 1980s mathematical model of human energy metabolism that was far ahead of its time. [Extracted from the article]