Recovering from Overtraining
Sunday, January 17th, 2010So the last few weeks I have shared some articles on overtraining and recovering from injuries. This is because I really dorked up my hamstring muscle and thought since I was already researching information and had nothing to share in regards to my workouts, that I would just post the articles I found.
The hamy has been giving me problems since the beginning of December. Now, typically, my knowledge and experience of using a heart rate monitor typically keeps me from overtraining, but does not prevent me from pushing through a little pain that results in a hamstrain 
Should You Buy a Heart Rate Monitor?
Sunday, November 29th, 2009Author: 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.
An Affair of the Heart – Heart Rate Training
Thursday, November 12th, 2009Today 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.