Q Having passed 40, I’m finding it difficult to shed unwanted pounds. I’ve picked up my training but nothing is moving! I’ve just purchased a heart rate monitor, with the intention of zone-targeting for weight loss. What is the best way to burn fat

and on the run. As long as you expect this, you shouldn't have a problem. Armed with your heart rate monitor and a little know-how, you'll be able to avoid overstressing your body in the heat or at altitude. It will help you stay within your limits, and you

session made up of short reps, you still have to bear in mind that it takes a minute at the very least for your heart rate to reach a steady state and reflect the intensity at which you're working. This means that your heart rate monitor starts to give

the watch to the handlebars of a bike or rowing machine, and you can even use your own chest strap to transmit your heart rate to a piece of gym equipment with a built-in monitor, as all the models use the same frequency.It's when you start getting active

supply, which leads to an accumulation of lactate and rapid fatigue: go too easy and you may not be training hard enough to gain the maximum benefit to your aerobic capacity. In short, there must be an element of control, which is where your heart rate

on your first few runs back, to give them a chance to strengthen up. Your resting heart rate may have risen, and your pace for each of your training heart rate zones will almost certainly have dropped. You should pay attention to what your HRM tells you

Q I’ve been trying threshold running, using a heart rate monitor and keeping my mile pace at 10 seconds below my 10K race pace. However, I struggle to maintain this speed, even though my HRM says I’m working at just 60 per cent of my predicted

By using a heart rate monitor while you train, you'll know exactly what impact your workout is having.Unlike trying to judge your own efforts, your heart rate is a completely objective measure of how hard you're working, so you'll be able to fine

How To Find Your Maximum Heart RateA heart rate monitor can help to ensure that you don’t work too hard – or take it too easy! – in training sessions. Depending on the session, your target heart rate will be anywhere between 60 and 95% of your

’s still packed with all the features that made the 305 great: it monitors your time spent running, distance, pace, calories and heart rate, and your runs can be stored in the memory, so you can review and analyse the data and the routes you’ve taken later