Originally Posted by
sstang13
Did Lance Armstrong win 7 tours because he had a resting HR of 27 (apparently)?
And his heart was 50% larger than a normal persons. And he never used PED's. Blah blah blah.
There was a huge amount of BS
PR hype with that guy. He won 7 tours because he doped his ass off and the only real opposition was addicted to strudel and Ecstasy.
Resting heart rate is useful as noted above. I find that with a power meter and good software, after you have enough data points and history it's a bit redundant. Without those tools it would be a good thing to track in a training diary and note if you start to correlate variances with performance.