Handball game requires multiple bouts of high-intensity exercise, leading to elevated blood lactate. Active exercise recovery has been shown to lower lactate faster than passive resting recovery but may not always be practical. An alternative treatment, neuromuscular electrical stimulation, may have benefits similar to active recovery in lowering blood lactate but to date is well-unstudied. Therefore, this study compared active exercise recovery (AER) and neuromuscular electrical stimulation recovery (NMESR) in reducing blood lactate after high intensity exercise. Ten young elite male handball athletes were included in this study. Each subject completed 2 testing sessions consisting of a active exercise recovery and neuromuscular electrical stimulation recovery, and 20-minute recovery treatments administered. Concentration of lactate was analyzed by Biosen C-line Lactate Analyzer. Data analysis was carried out using paired t-test and two-way RM ANOVA. From the results of this study, the higher Lactate removal rate for the neuromuscular electrical stimulation recovery group as compared to the active exercise recovery group(p=.036). Collectively, the outcomes of this study indicate that neuromuscular electrical stimulation shows promise as an alternate recovery treatment for the purpose of lowering blood lactate.