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Raised my max bpm from 190 to 192

Old 01-24-06, 06:10 PM
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Raised my max bpm from 190 to 192

I finally was able to reach over 100% bpm during a sprint on the trainer. This means that all my zones will now be a little higher. Also it means the next time I have to shoot for more than 192 to see what is my real max bpm.
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it means you have not found your max. It doesn't go up due to conditioning. Means when you tested to find it you were not really ready to test. Good luck,
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Originally Posted by barleyrocket
it means you have not found your max. It doesn't go up due to conditioning. Means when you tested to find it you were not really ready to test. Good luck,
Righto!

And who cares about MHR anyway? It's a relatively poor way of establishing training zones. Find your lactate threshold or functional threshold and base the zones off one of those.
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And who cares about MHR anyway? It's a relatively poor way of establishing training zones. Find your lactate threshold or functional threshold and base the zones off one of those.
Everything that I read about finding those zones seems like guessing. At least with MHR I get a precise number. I'm the kind of person that likes precise numbers, not guesses.

I do understand that using % of MHR is guessing the other zones. But I have no better way to do it.
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Training with HR involves a lot of guessing. The more precise information you try to get out of it, the more this problem becomes apparent. I found that temperature, hydration, and blood glucose levels affected my HR quite a bit. Some days, I could ride at 195 for over an hour but on other days, I couldn't even ride at 185.

So I gave up on HR many years ago.


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Everything that I read about finding those zones seems like guessing. At least with MHR I get a precise number. I'm the kind of person that likes precise numbers, not guesses.

I do understand that using % of MHR is guessing the other zones. But I have no better way to do it.
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I'll probably switch from HR to lap time when summer comes. But for now it's the most accurate objective measurement of effort I have. Just to make sure I keep training harder.

It's a shame that I did'nt know about the Garmin 305 before. It seems like a great idea to be able to race a virtual competitor. This looks like a great way to know if you are training harder than you ever did before this season.

Lap times are great but how do you know when you have in the middle if you are getting a good lap or not? Maybe I'll get used to it and just know that I have to be at "this time" when I reach "that tree" or something like that.
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