heart rate training

Should You Buy a Heart Rate Monitor?

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

Author: Phillip Tucker

There are many different approaches to exercising. Some people just leap out of bed in the morning, inspired and motivated to his the open road, and race off down the street without a thought as to where they’re going, how far they wish to run, and how this run fits into their long term exercise plan. Other people have figured out their VO2max and designed a workout schedule that figures in progressive overloading of their system along with keeping an exact count of calories eaten and any other measurable statistic. Where should you be, and how does a heart rate monitor fit into this sliding scale between complete spontaneity and planned madness? I think you should, as with most things, place yourself somewhere in the middle, and for that very reason alone a heart rate monitor can be of excellent use.

Heart Rate Training Optimizes Your 5k Training Program

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

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Are you looking for a 5k training program? When you start looking you see many program offering beginner programs and advanced programs. What is interesting is that most beginner programs are too many miles for the average beginner. The key to effective 5k cardio plans is for every person to have their own heart rate profile. With optimal heart rate training every workout will be optimized for the greatest impact for your results. Heart rate training is for advanced and beginners; the difference is the heart rate profile not using a heart rate monitor.

An Affair of the Heart – Heart Rate Training

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Today was a rest day and the wife’s birthday. So no workouts to post about, but in keeping with the last article I shared, I will stick with the heart rate training theme:

An Affair of the Heart (Rate)
By Bennett Cohen

Running your workouts too fast results in tiredness, burnout and injury. Running too slow provides an inadequate stimulus to your system for improvement and will prevent you from reaping the desired training benefit. Training with a heart rate monitor is an easy way to ensure that every run is being conducted at the proper pace. Monitoring your training intensity by heart rate is easy and can be done with any type of run on any route.

Heart Rate Training Information

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Been posting alot of my workouts training for my upcoming 5k and I have talked alot about heart rates and percentages. Well, I thought I would start posting some articles related to heart rate training. I am a firm beleiver in it and it has helped me on two different occasions get back into great shape.

Personal Fitness – Heart Rate Training – It’s in the Zone
By Jaroslav Waznee

The rate of perceived exertion (RPE) scale, talk test and other subjective tools for measuring aerobic exercise intensity can only do so much. For the most accurate assessments, a monitor is the way to go. Let’s see why.