Lactate Scout Sport

Lactate analyzer for sports performance

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Lactate Scout Sport is the number one choice for sports scientists and professional athletes globally. It is a simple and reliable lactate meter perfect for training outdoors, in the gym, or for analyzing performance in a laboratory.

The Lactate Scout Sport is designed for field and gym use and is ideal for measuring lactate levels rapidly. This measurement allows coaches and athletes to assess athlete endurance levels, devise optimum training programs, avoid overtraining, and use metabolic information to help set target heart rate zones.

The lactate strips require only 0.2 µl of capillary blood and provide results in 10 seconds. Lactate Scout Sport can store up to 500 results and also connects with Bluetooth® enabled heart rate monitors. It also features a stopwatch function to help analyze performance.

With an integrated step test function and Bluetooth® connectivity, the Lactate Scout Sport is one of the market’s most advanced hand-held lactate analyzers.

The Lactate Scout Sport is a user-friendly tool. The e-paper display is easy to navigate and provides excellent readability in varying light conditions and at different viewing angles.

During high-intensity exercise, the body produces lactate faster than it can be metabolized and removed from the bloodstream, leading to its accumulation in the bloodstream.

Up to a certain threshold, the body can clear lactate at a rate at which, although there is an elevated lactate concentration in the blood, the concentration does not impede muscle function.

Higher-intensity exercise will lead to this threshold being passed, such that lactate production exceeds lactate clearance. The biochemical processes associated with increased lactate places muscle cells under stress. It is therefore important to determine the lactate threshold at which training is most effective.

A lactate analyzer is therefore useful in fitness training and cardiovascular training, to help increase endurance without overtraining.

Lactate is a source of energy metabolized by muscle cells. The more efficiently lactate is metabolized, the lower the blood lactate concentration will be during exercise. Additionally, excess lactate will be cleared from the circulation more rapidly during the post-exercise period.

Endurance athletes should aim to achieve an elevated lactate equilibrium – a balance between the production and breakdown of lactate.

For training to achieve positive results and improve performance, it is therefore recommended to exercise at just below the anaerobic threshold.

Exercising at higher-intensity levels will result in exceeding the anaerobic threshold and cause a rapid increase in blood lactate concentration. This threshold varies from person to person, and a step test can determine an individual’s threshold. In a step test, training intensity gradually increases at defined intervals, e.g., on a treadmill, exercise bike, or field test. The blood lactate concentration is measured at the end of each interval and plotted against the load value on a chart. The resulting curve indicates the threshold value. The greater the intensity of the athlete’s exercise at their anaerobic threshold indicates a fitter athlete.

If a training program is designed so that exercise occurs in the anaerobic threshold range, it can have a positive impact on the metabolism, increase muscle cell contractions, improve muscle cell repair, increase blood capillaries, and improve cardiac function. The body then produces energy more efficiently, even when exercising at higher intensity levels.

Simple, accurate and reliable lactate analyzer for sports performance

Key features:

  • Sports performance use
  • Results in 10 seconds
  • Stores up to 500 results
  • Only a drop of fingerprick blood
  • Simple to use
  • Connects with Bluetooth® enabled heart rate monitors
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The Lactate Scout Sport is now compatible with the Beep Insights app.

Download the FREE Beep Insights app with wireless connection to the Lactate Scout Sport
– Guided step tests for multiple sports – immediate results in new heart rate zones
– Sync lactate tests with sports watch workouts to visualise progress
– Powerful reports for performance development

Download the Beep Insights app here, or visit the Beep Insights website to find out more.

 


Easy lactate measurement in three steps:

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Remove the strip and place it into the analyzer

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Prick finger and collect blood by touching it with the strip

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Result appears in 10 seconds

Frequently Asked Questions:

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What technology is used?
How do the strips work?
What sample types can be used in the Lactate Scout Sport?
What power supply is required for Lactate Scout Sport?
How should the strips be stored?
Is it necessary to calibrate the Lactate Scout Sport?
Is there a power save function?
Can the stored data be transferred to a PC?
What are the performance characteristics of Lactate Scout Sport?
Does the device function in extreme temperatures?
What effect does sweat have on readings?

Easy to use

  • Insert/remove strip to turn on/off
  • Simplified navigation to enable flexibility whilst training
  • Only 0.2 µl of capillary blood required
  • Pre-calibrated strips
  • Device calibrated by simple coding
  • Lactate measurement value, date/time, measuring mode, temperature, heart rate and memory ID on a single display
  • Automatic self-test

Practical and reliable

  • Stores up to 500 results
  • 1,000 tests using just 2 x CR2450 batteries
  • Integrated Bluetooth® Low Energy connectivity
  • Pocket-size: 91 mm (h) x 46 mm (w) x 21 mm (d)
  • Lightweight: 60 g
  • Operating range: 10-45 °C and max. 85 % humidity

Fast and accurate

  • Enzymatic amperometric detection method
  • Results within 10 seconds
  • Measuring range: 0.5 – 25 mmol/L
  • Compensates for the influence of low and high hematocrit levels
  • Imprecision:
    • Hct-range 35 – 50% : 0.5 – 6.7 mmol/L blood lactate ≤0.2 mmol/L, 6.8 – 25 mmol/L blood lactate ≤3%
    • Hct range 20 – <35% and >50%-70% : 0.5 – 7.5 mmol/L blood lactate ≤0,3 mmol/L, 7.6 – 25 mmol/L blood lactate ≤4%
  • Check Solutions available for functional control

Performance measurement

  • Single and step-test measurements (resting/exercise/recreation)
  • Connection to heart rate monitors compatible to Bluetooth® Low Energy for linking to lactate value
  • Stopwatch function
  • Lactate Scout Assistant software available for performance management
Lactate Scout Sport: Datasheet (EN EU Rev 1.0 10-2023)
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Lactate Scout Sport: FAQs (EN EU Rev 1.0 10-2023)
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