What is the FaCT System of Training?

What is the FaCT System?

Imagine a very different way of approaching testing and training of athletes involved in endurance sports based on sound physiological principles and years of real world evidence based on the studies of hundreds of athletes. The Feldmann and Chlebek Test is exactly that and its creating a storm in the coaching world.

At the core of the FaCT system is the Lactate Balance Point Test, more commonly known as the LBP test which involves taking an athlete to a high intensity workload and then measuring their body's lactate response. The test can is not specific to a single sport and can be used on triathletes, cyclists, rowers, runners, swimmers, paddlers and cross country skiers.

The principles of the FaCT system are based on long term athletic development. This is not a get fit quick type system but one that is concerned with long term sustainable growth. It incorporates the understanding of the differences between structural adaptation and functional adaptation to exercise. Current lactate theory has destroyed the old myth of the harmful effects of lactate on performance and the old belief in aerobic and anaerobic approach to training and FaCT is based on these new principles.

FaCT is also concerned with correct respiratory training and oxygen utilization and with the introduction of new training equipment to the market FaCT makes recommendations which include hypoxic training, respiratory training, V02max testing and nutritional functionality.

This integrated approach combined with the benefit of regular LBP tests and view to continuous growth make FaCT a serious option for athlete looking to achieve their best possible performances. Athletes will still train using their heart rate monitors and cycling power meters but the way they use them will seem quite different.