More Heart Rate Training
Don’t worry, I shall get bored of posting this stuff soon, but I went for a run today and got my heart rate up to 180bpm for a short time… Very close to my theoretical maximum of 183bpm. After this though I did a nice easy run, trying to keep my heart rate within the aerobic zone. Although finding out what exactly this should be is a little difficult as every article you read seems to have different figures… Most seem to have the aerobic zone at somewhere between 60% and 80% of your maximum. This article here has a good overview of the benefits of training within your aerobic threshold, it improves your aerobic efficiency and helps prevent injury and over-training… It also sounds a lot easier than half killing yourself each time you go out for a run!
Of course, you still need to do some speed work now and then and get the heart going, but getting a good aerobic base to work from sounds like a plan. After my initial burst this morning I kept my heart rate at around 150bpm (70%) and had a nice steady run which I could have kept up for a while… Time now to start extending the length of the runs… I’ve got to have an aim otherwise I’ll never keep this up, and todays run was in the pouring rain so I should congratulate myself on doing it at all!
