Know Your Heart Rate

The next time you’re out riding or running, play a little game and try to guess your heart rate every 15 minutes or so.  Pay attention to how your legs feel, how hard you’re breathing, and what kind of terrain you’re in.  The more you do this the better you’ll get at predicting your HR [...]

Computrainer workout #2

This is the second computrainer workout we’ve posted, to find the other you can click on the computrainer tag above, or in the sidebar tags.

Depending on your desire to ride your bike inside, you can get this workout going when you’ve got that extra jolt of motivation. We like to think [...]

Maffetone Aerobic HR calculation

This calculation was created by Dr. Phil Maffetone and has been tried and tested by numerous athletes, including Mark Allen.  It’s a good calculation and has been shown to quite accurate in most cases for determining your Maximum Aerobic HR: a.k.a. the point below which you should keep much of your Ironman training, and most [...]

Physical Testing for the run

Don’t just sleep-walk through your training. If you are putting in the time, yes you should be getting faster and more fit, but it is important (not to mention gratifying) to have the stats to prove it.  A great test is to do a run on the track at a set heart rate (typically an [...]

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