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My Resting Heart Rate is 30, should I be worried?
On 07/09/2009 in forum
Low Heart Rate
I have a resting heart rate of 30bpm and it rarely rises above 171. I train 4-5 times a week of late and have always been relatively healthy but would not consider myself an elite. I only started running again about 2yrs ago and have run three
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Racing With A Heart Rate Monitor
On 05/06/2000 in General
Data from a heart rate monitor can help you optimise your race performance - but you have to be careful how you go about using it
It would seem natural that your heart rate monitor should be your greatest ally when it comes to race day but as ever, the reasoning is not that simple. While you can use your experience from previous competitions to your advantage, you'll find
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Heart Rate Training: Threshold Runs
On 05/06/2000 in General
Threshold work is an essential part of any serious training schedule - and using a heart rate monitor is the easiest way to make sure you get the intensity right
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
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Heart Rate Training: Monitoring Your Progress
On 05/06/2000 in General
Your heart rate is a reliable means of measuring your improvement
session. The problem with this is that you end up racing against yourself and running too hard to get consistent results.You might not be surprised to find that your heart rate monitor is the answer. If you use it to control the work you do, you can assess
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Our Best Practical Heart Rate Sessions
On 05/06/2002 in Beginners
Heart rate training is great in theory - here's a beginner-friendly guide to turning it into reality
people and feeling totally in control. I loved it."What was her secret? Oliner was wearing a heart rate monitor."I was breathing heavily as I went up the hills, but the monitor told me that I was okay, so I sped up," she says. "If it hadn't been
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RW Complete Guide to Heart Rate Training
On 23/08/2006 in General
Learn to train with your heart rate, and it won't just be your pulse that races faster
started her slow-to-fast journey, though, Gardener needed to invest in some electronic gadgetry. "I bought a heart-rate monitor after my second marathon,"says the 44-year old from Hayling Island in Hampshire. "I found a thread on the www
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Ridiculously high heart rate, is it safe, or right?
On 17/05/2009 in forum
Is my heart rate safe above 220bpm for the first 3/4 mileof half marathon?
Having just recorded by first half marathon and previous trainging runs, I notice my heart rate rockets up to about 175-185 for the first 5-6 minutes and then settles down to about 150ish for the rest of the run.On the Loch Leven half marathon
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Heart Rate Training: Cross-Training
On 05/06/2000 in General
It's easy to use your heart rate monitor to cross-train once you have a few facts under your belt
GETTY IMAGESCross-training can be quite an education for an HRM user. You've probably spent time fine-tuning ideal heart rate bands for your various running sessions, to the point where keeping to them is almost second nature. But when you climb
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RW Complete Guide to Heart Rate Training (Preview)
On 23/08/2006 in General
Learn to train with your heart rate, and it won't just be your pulse that races faster (non-subscriber preview)
started her slow-to-fast journey, though, Gardener needed to invest in some electronic gadgetry. "I bought a heart-rate monitor after my second marathon,"says the 44-year old from Hayling Island in Hampshire. "I found a thread on the www
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Your Top Heart Rate Training Tips
On 25/08/2006 in General
When one RW forum member wondered why she should bother with heart rate training, here's what you said
You run, you sweat, you breathe heavily, you eventually stop and recover. Simple... unless you want to know what's really happening to your body, and use that knowledge to control your fitness.That's when you start to think about using a heart rate
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