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Endurance sports

For individual sports see: running, jogging, sprinting (not an endurance sport), rowing, swimming, cycling, walking (walking, strolling, Olympic walking, hiking)

Endurance sports are all sports that promote endurance. These primarily include jogging and running, cycling, inline skating, swimming, walking, aerobics, rowing and cross-country skiing, triathlon (swimming, running and cycling), duathlon (cycling and running). In the area of aerobic endurance required for this, most of the energy supply takes place aerobically, i.e. with oxygen consumption, i.e. oxidatively. If the performance requirement exceeds the aerobic limit (limit of oxygen supply capacity), further energy is generated anaerobically (without oxygen consumption), whereby lactic acid (lactate) is produced. To a certain extent, this can be utilised in the body in real time (by the heart muscle), disposed of or converted back into glucose (gluconeogenesis in the liver). The limit of lactic acid that can still be removed from the bloodstream in real time is known as the anaerobic threshold. Above the anaerobic threshold, no prolonged performance can be achieved.