On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 7:37:20 PM UTC-4, dougP wrote: > > "Your body will give you better feedback than a monitor." I didn't quite > buy into that & went the monitor route anyway. >
a HRM puts a real number on how hard the body is working - it *is* the body's ultimate feedback metric. for athletes, accuracy is really important and going by feel just doesn't cut it - for instance, I was surprised to learn that my true max heart rate for running is about 12bpm higher than for cycling - and that's not uncommon. running requires different muscle and effort than cycling, the body has to work harder, and the heart has to pump more blood to keep things moving for a given effort. anyway, once I adjusted for the discrepancy in max heart rates between mode or exercise, my running performance improved accordingly. going by feel can be quite deceiving, especially when trying to keep things easy, or when trying to sustain intensity at or above anaerobic threshold. If I don't wear a monitor on a training ride, I inevitably end up riding too hard or not hard enough. That said, I've been tracking my resting heart rate for the last 9 months and the information I get from simply taking my pulse in the morning is incredibly useful. For anyone interested in the matter, I highly recommend this book - http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Rate-Training-Roy-Benson/dp/0736086552 - it's a nice intro to exercise physiology and explains how to use heart rate as a means to improving fitness for all levels of athletes. I actually had my physiological testing done by the co-author, Declan Connolly - it was truly enlightening. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/nmj6yKFTEHEJ. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
