oa South African Journal of Sports Medicine - The Talk Test as a simple marker of ventilatory threshold

Abstract

Endurance training prescriptions are often based on laboratory measurements of physiological reference points, such as the ventilatory threshold (VT). This study evaluated the relationship between a simple surrogate of the VT, the Talk Test (TT), and objective measures of VT in well-trained individuals. This was a comparative study of the oxygen consumption (V02) in reference to TT, VT and respiratory compensation threshold (RCT).