Heart Rate Is Key To Fitness
One of the best ways to build your fitness and increase your ability to workout better, is by using your heart rate to set your workouts. I’ve been training with a heart rate monitor for nearly 27 years and have found it to be very helpful. Back in the Fall of 2008 I did a series of posts on using heart rate based training to improve your fitness so I wanted to re-introduce you to it here:
The Series
Heart Rate Based Training Part One: An introduction to heart rate based training, why it is important to train using heart rate, and how to get the most from your workouts using this proven technique.
Heart Rate Based Training Part Two: How to test yourself to determine your “training zones”. I give you three different ways of determining these zones based on how accurate you want to be.
Heart Rate Based Training Part Three: How to build your training program and “zones” using the information from part two. I also give a couple of sample workouts to help you get started.
The Goal And An Offer From Me
The goal of all of this is to help you get more from your workouts. Once you know how to properly determine and use heart rate to train you can do better workouts in less time as well as train correctly for a 5k, Century Ride, marathon, or whatever other goal you may have.
For those of you that are interested I am offering to help you build a basic training program based on heart rate. Like I said in the “Intro Video” last month, I am not a fitness professional, just a guy who has trained for endurance events most of my life. That being said, if you are interested, send an email to me at mark@bikebeerbbq.com and I will let you know more information on what support I can provide. I need to charge something for the service. It will be very affordable, but I haven’t reached a number yet.
Books You May Want To Read
There are a lot of good books out there that can help you develop a training program based on heart rate. Here are a few that I suggest you check out:
Total Heart Rate Training: Customize and Maximize Your Workout Using a Heart Rate Monitor
The Heart Rate Guidebook to Heart Zone Training
