Originally Posted by
Stealthammer
Taking your waking and resting heartrates every morning, and then tailoring your workouts based on your bodies current state of recovery can be more beneficial than monitoring your heartrate during the workout because it will keep you working as hard as your body can, without overtraining.
Monitoring how quickly your heartrate returns to normal during a workout or in between intervals will also help you to tailor your workout to provide you with the best benefit. Its also a good indicator that you may be undertraining or overtraining within each portion of a workout session.
So, this morning, before I even got out of bed, I slapped the HRM on.
I kept it on for 20 minutes, and had an average of 46, but saw it as low as 42, but typically around 48.
After that, I got up, and started making coffee, emptying the dishwasher, and kinda forgot that I was monitoring again. This time the duration was 30 minutes, and the average was 62.
I'll read those links to see what that is telling me.
On yesterday's ride, I was pretty amazed at how quickly I would go from the 180 range, from climbing, down to the 130 range, even when I was pedalling on flat/rolling surfaces.