Subject: RE: Aerobic zone, am i wasting my time? If you want to train using HR, then you need to test to establish your zones, not use an arbitrary formula. There are several formulae around and will all give you different results but at the end of the day, they will give results that work for some while being too high for others and too low for others. You need to train based on your physiology which means you need to test if you want to use HR to guide your training.
You can also use the conversation test as described earlier; if you can speak full setences, that's easy. If you're huffing and puffing, its not.
Also, if you have a run race result, run calculators can be used to give a good indication of paces for various intensities that you could also use.
Probably also worth nothing that treadmill paces can differ wildly so unless you are always running on the same one, thwn take the pace information with a grain of salt. Train by intensity and time.
As mentioned earleir, run lots, mostly easy, sometimes fast. For a beginner, that sometimes is often best just left for race day.
Shane |