Exploring the Southern Constellations. September 2008 : In the summer of 1865, noted American newspaperman and politician Horace Greeley penned, in an editorial, an admonishment to young civil servants in Washington DC. Greeley urged those who complained of low pay grades in the Capitol area to âGo west, young man!â.
When your muscles can't get enough oxygen during a short burst of exercise, they start to make use of a pathway called lactic acid fermentation, which generates a small three-carbon compound called lactic acid or lactate as a byproduct of glucose breakdown.
Formation of lactic acid in muscles occurs when insufficient oxygen is supplied to the muscles, resulting in the release of energy via anaerobic cellular respiration instead of by aerobic cellular respiration (see right).owever, the lactic acid was only formed due to lack of sufficient oxygen to release the required energy to the muscle tissue via aerobic respiration. Lactic acid can accumulate in muscle tissue that continues to be over-worked.