Advice for one new to HRM training

englander

Hello all,

I'm sure there I came across a good intro to HRM training thread here a while ago but my searches have been futile...

Having recently got an HRM, I've been looking at setting up my zones. I see some people take into account resting heart rate (Karvonen method) and others base zones just on max HR - most notably Laurens Ten Dam and Steven Abraham on Strava appear to have their zones set up not via the Karvonen method. What's the most popular way for setting up zones as a way to start off with?

Happy to be linked to previous threads where my searching has failed me.

wavefront

There are many ways, but Joe Friels zones seem to be widely used, and the link below may provide a starting point.

http://www.joefrielsblog.com/2010/05/qu ... -pace.html

I used them for my first year training, but them migrated to power. Ironically, I'm back using heart rate as a guide for my endurance training but that's another story.

I could suggest others that are less popular (Peter Keen's for example ) but then the question 'which one is better, and why?' would be asked. And that, I actually don't know, but like all these things, I don't think there is one correct answer.

diy

Some good stuff here too:
http://www.brianmac.co.uk/index.htm