Running To Heart Rate Explained

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Very clear and helpful. I’ve been monitoring heart rate for a long time but only recently started taking the zones seriously as a way of avoiding overtraining. I think it’s worth mentioning that I have consistently found that when I am very fit it is much harder ( almost impossible) to get my heart up to the same maximum as it reaches when I am unfit. I believe this is not uncommon. I spoke to an expert who said this comes down to two factors: as you get fitter you can increase your stroke volume so you provide more oxygen to the muscles at the same heart rate, and then the oxygen supplied by your heart is no longer the limiting factor so you reach a point where your muscles are using oxygen as fast as they can before you reach your theoretical heart rate max.

I bought my first Garmin about 4 months ago and have been somewhat frustrated that my watch would tell me I was overreaching, and my HR would be 95% in zone 5 seemingly regardless of my pace. After watching this video I checked my watch and it was set to % max HR, with a default max HR of 162. I changed it to HRR, and set my actual max HR to 190, and my resting HR to 57. Now when I go on a long run, my heart rate is mostly in Zones 3 and 4, which is what I'd expect. So...thank you!

Great summary video. I've been using a heart rate monitor for close to 30 years and the stuff on heart rate reserve was particularly useful.

Great presentation of this material! I use a combination of HR, power (foot pod), and RPE to manage my training. For HR zones I find that using the lactate threshold heart rate is more practically accurate - it is certainly more relevant for establishing training intensities. There are several good ways to establish this and none of them are as painful as a proper max HR test. I have found that Garmin’s LT test is pretty good (aligns well with other tests) and there is a built-in option to use the lactate threshold HR (LTHR) to establish zones. The most important zones for training are Zones 1 & 2 and Zone 4. Spending 80-90% of training time in Z1/2 and 10% in Z4 is good for long-term development.

You, guys, are so spot on with your videos; all my questions resolved at my fingertip. I am trilled I found your channel :)

Another informative video! I like the format where you switch back and forth between Rick and Anna. It keeps what COULD be a dry topic from being boring.

I use to do heart rate training runs where I would try and stay between 130bpm and 140bpm. I do this twice a week for 2 months and my pace to begin with was 10minutes and 30seconds a mile to after the 2 months to 9minutes and 30seconds a mile and it did help me with the faster 5km efforts at parkrun

Can we have an episode on MAFF, 80/20 and other low heart rate regimes? - MAFF/Phil Maffetone talks about runners training their aerobic systems and avoid running at an intensity/HR that uses the anaerobic system. I think the teams take on this would be interesting

Great video, it helped me to set up my zones on my new watch and to easier plan my trainings :)

Awesome, very few people talk about heart rate. Well done!!!

Amazing thank you, keep up the great work. For another video I think you should all pick a different event to enter this year then video your training for the event and see who’s event actually takes place however the twist is you don’t pick the event each member of the team picks for the other so they can really put them out of their comfort zone to try something different. Big love xxx

Great video. I'm a fairly experienced runner and run with a club but I've never paid attention to my heart rate data at all. I'll definitely look into it more now. 👍🏻

I've been upper zone 2/lower zone 3 training for a while, Garmin watch, getting a chest strap HR sensor is vital if you want reliable readings ❤️

I will definitely try it. I have just calculated my heart zones, thanks to you guys and have placed them in my Garmin watch. Can’t wait to try it out. I am nursing a calf injury (light) at the moment. Thank you guys.

Like most runners my Garmin keeps the graph of my HR for each run. I generally will look at it, knowing that almost all of my runs have some hill sets, etc... Great tip about elevated HR being symptomatic of overtraining. I may have done that early last summer.

Great video. I struggled with heart rate based running when using the formula. ( Im an older runner) I basically followed yr advice got to run flat out after a few Km run and set that as my max. Zones now work for me! Yours was a very clear explanation. Thankyou and keep up the good work!

Great vid. Clear, concise. No nonsense. 😊 loving it.

Great video, very informative and helpful!!