ABSTRACT GAESSER, GLENNA. and GEORGE A. BROOKS. Metabolic bases of excess
post-exercise oxygen consumption: a review. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 29–
43, 1984. The classical “oxygen debt" hypothesis formulated by Hill and associates in the
1920s was an attempt to link the metabolism of lactic acid with the O, consumption in excess
of resting that occurs after exercise. The Os debt was hypothesized to represent the
oxidation of a minor fraction (1/5) of the lactate formed during exercise, to provide the energy …