Originally Posted by
tbonez
One additional question...I was told that training with a hrm is basically useless for faser paced rididing. This was because if you were working hard enough in training that your hr would be extremely high and not in the 80% range.is there any merit to this line of thinking?
Nope. The part where it doesn't work well is with VO2 max intervals, since HR is your body's response to the effort, and takes some time to show. Since you're going as hard as you can in a VO2 max interval, HR is irrelevant anyway - you just push until you can't push no mo'.
HR works well for longer, less intense intervals like sub-lactate threshold intervals, and also keeps you honest on recovery and endurance pace rides.