How could a person engaging in vigorous exercise ensure that fermentation does not begin in their muscle cell?

Answer 1

Fermentation is a natural process in muscle cells that occurs when the availability of oxygen is to low compared to the utilization of substrate, but the muscle still needs to produce a high rate of ATP during exercise. Because O2 is unavailable, oxidative phosphorylation cannot take place but because the muscle is active, it still needs ATP for contraction and relaxation so the only alternative is to produce ATP by substrate level phosphorylation in which case pyruvate produced by glycolysis is reduced to lactate so that NADH can be reoxidized to NAD+. People say you can do "bicarbonate loading" to eat some baking soda prior to exercise and this will neutralize the lactic acid and decrease muscle fatigue and improve muscle performance but it may not be to good for your kidneys

Answer 2

You cannot. Glycolysis is fermentation, and isn't a bad thing. Especially in vigorous exercise, glucose will be catabolized into ATP and pyruvate will enter aerobic respiration cycles. In heavily aerobic exercise you can diminish the anaerobic fermentation going on, but whenever things get vigorous and you strain without beathing, you ensure more fermentation.

Although, I suppose without glucose present, one could bypass true fermentation, but that's not physically possible.

Answer 3

You cannot over exert yourself or your body will begin to go into anaerobic respiration and start to build up lactic acid in your muscles. Stay within your targeted heartrate zone.

Answer 4

Remember to breathe.
And stop excercizing when you can't anymore.