You may want to check out Joe Friel's
Total Heart Rate Training book. Joe has a
blog too. I've training by heart rate with
Jeff Kline at PRS Fitness for few months and it takes a little work to get your training dialed in based on heart rates. However, once I got used to heart rate training, I've enjoyed training and racing more than ever. Setting the watch to beep when I'm out of my heart zone is like having Jeff right there. Since his coaching is mostly online w/
TrainingPeaks.com, the heart rate monitor is completely awesome. Anyways, I hope this helps.
Bret
Originally Posted by
gkk2001
I splurged and got the new Polar CS500 computer/HRM and like it alot. It is truely a very nice unit that I think was well worth the cash. I am still on a learning curve because of all the features but know most of the operation after just a couple days of use.
At 59 and a newbe cyclist, I thought I better know what level my heart was doing on the rides I am taking.
It turns out, to reach the workout intensity that I feel is correct for me, my heart rate is easily going to 140 - 145 (occassionally even 150) while the guideline calculation says it should be 133 max for my age. (220-59) x 0.80 I enter my age into the Polar and it will not let me set the max heart rate above 133 for it to monitor the time that I am in my proper heart rate zone. I know I am not as fit as I want to be but my resting rate is 60 so I am not that bad off and my weight is down to a good level as well (158 at 5'11").
I have approached this thinking the heart rate zone calculation is just a guidline and that it is OK for me to run higher than the recommened zone. What level heart rates are you running to during training? Am I looking at this the wrong way?
Greg