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There are plenty of workout accessories you can buy, but one of the most useful are heart rate monitor accessories.
Heart rate monitors and accesories allow you to accurately track your training efforts, and are an incredibly effective way of optimizing your endurance training.
Heart rate accessories enable you to train in different heart rate zones, which ensures that you don't over train or under train - in other words, you don't waste time. The zones are based on your maximum heart rate, which varies with age. The usual calculation for figuring out your maximum heart rate is thus:
220 - Age = Maximum Heart Rate
Alternatively - and more accurately - you can try:
217 - (Age ? 0.85 ) = Maximum Heart Rate
Once you have figured out your maximum heart rate, you can start to use your monitor to figure out how hard you are training. There are various ways of calculating your training zones. A typical example is:
- The Warm-up or Recovery Zone - 60% to 70% - For warm-ups, cool downs and recovery training
- The Aerobic Zone - 70% to 80% - Your basic endurance zone
- The Anaerobic Zone - 80% to 90% - For distance race training
- The Red Line Zone 90% to 100% - For pure speed work
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