Correction to: Nature Metabolism https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-020-0251-4, published online 3 August 2020.

In Box 1, two reactions have been revised from those in the version of this article initially published. The reaction ‘ATP + H2O → ADP + Pi + energy’ has been revised to ‘ATP + H2O → ADP + Pi + H+G°′ = –6.3 kcal mol–1)’. The reaction ‘Glycogen + 3 ADP → 2 lactate + 2 H+ + 3 ATP’ has been revised to ‘Glycogenn + 3 ADP + 3 Pi → glycogenn–1 + 2 lactate + 3 ATP’. Footnotes have been added to Box 1 to provide further explanation. The errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.