Heart rate zones without LT test

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2008-10-02 8:54 PM

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Subject: Heart rate zones without LT test

Hi everyone,

I know there must be someone out there that can help me.  I am trying to figure out my heart rate zones for future IM training however I do not have a bunch of money to go through a LT test or anything else really fancy to get the results.  I have heart that 220-age is not at all true.  What does everyone else do?  Any ideas?

 

2008-10-02 9:25 PM
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Subject: RE: Heart rate zones without LT test
you do a field test....one of the coaches around here will chime in, but you basically go kill yourself in a run and take the ahr from the run and work backwards....
2008-10-02 9:43 PM
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Subject: RE: Heart rate zones without LT test

You might find that an LT test is not as expensive as you thought -- many universities have labs where they'll do the test for a smallish fee.  As a percentage of the total that you're likely to spend for your IM, the amount is trivial.

There are protocols out there for rolling your own LT test.  (Triathlete’s Training Bible has one, for example.)

I myself go mostly by RPE, but I also wear the HR monitor from time to time, as a backup check.  Having it can help one distinguish between those days where HR is just higher than normal for whatever reasons, and those days where one really is training too hard (or too slow). 

 

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