Training With a Heart Rate Monitor
Training with a heart rate monitor is one of the most important things you can do for several reasons. First and foremost, your primary goal should be to train safely. Never begin a training regimen without first getting clearance from your physician. You don t want to put yourself in a dangerous situation and compromise your health or your life by elevating your heart rate into dangerous levels. Training with a heart rate monitor will help you stay within safe limits.
Second, most people tend to over train. They may think that they need to have the no pain, no gain philosophy. This actually impedes your ability to achieve greater gains
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Also, as your heart rate elevates, your body will transition from a primarily aerobic fat-burning mode into a cardiovascular mode and then into an anaerobic mode. Once you are into the anaerobic mode, your body will begin to draw on the energy stores in your muscles (glycogen). Not only are those energy stores limited, but you will also create lactic acid buildup in your muscles (which causes that soreness and burning
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There are a number of ways to calculate your maximum heart rate. The simplest formula is (220 your age). For example, if you are 30 years old, your maximum heart rate would be (220 30) = 190. You should never exceed your maximum heart rate.
Generally speaking, if you train at a level that is between 55% to 65% of your maximum heart rate, then you will be training in a primarily fat burning aerobic mode. Between 65% and 75%, you ll be in a primarily cardiovascular mode. Between 75% and 90%, you ll be in a primarily high-intensity or anaerobic mode.
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Over time, your speed will continue to improve, but your heart rate will stay roughly the same. For example, let
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You ll find that as you work through the more intense phase of workouts for a few months, your performance will show similar improvement until it eventually flattens out. Once it does, you ll then need to transition back to the easier aerobic phase. The difference is, you ll be running at a much faster pace. You might be running a 7:00 mile now at the original heart rate range of 127-134.
If you keep working out using this training methodology, you can eventually run (or bike) very fast
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There are a number of heart rate models and brands on the market (see our reviews of heart rate monitors). Most of them have a chest strap that is worn around the torso. The strap has electrodes that contact the skin just below the chest/breast area. The one I use has flexible electrodes and is very comfortable to wear for extended periods. Usually they transmit your heart rate to a wristwatch unit. The watch will display your heart rate and most will provide audible beeps if your heart rate falls outside of a programmed range.
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I use some training software when I train. The software allows me to enter information about myself such as age, gender, fitness level, the amount of time I have to train each week and the type of race I want to train for. It then calculates workouts in blocks of 3 weeks at a time. At the end of each 3 week period, there is a fitness test where I run a very specific distance at a very specific heart rate. This data is plotted over time so that once the software detects that the time to run
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The bottom line is, you really can t (and shouldn t) train without a heart rate monitor. The benefits far outweigh the dollar cost of the monitor and you will have a much better training experience and help yourself to avoid injury and safely improve your performance.
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