With so many affordable smartphone apps and wearable devices enabling you to track your body’s response to activity, it’s never been easier to use heart rate monitoring to customise your training.
Heart Rate Training (Second Edition) shows you how, with authors Roy Benson and Declan Connolly combining decades of coaching experience, scientific research and practical knowledge to show you how to get reliable data from your device.
They also dispel myths surrounding heart rate monitors and make it easy for you to calculate your frequency.
As a bonus, sample exercise programs guide you in manipulating training components to design long-term training plans for walking, running and other sports like swimming and cycling.
Be prepared, however, for a lot of text in Heart Rate Training (Second Edition). Chapters in the publication include evaluating and customising your zones, increasing aerobic endurance, raising aerobic threshold, and boosting your speed and power.
And before hitting the nitty gritty of suggested programs for your chosen sport, the authors cover even more topics, albeit briefly, of progressive resistance, progress, recovery, and putting all the elements to design the perfect program.
Chapter 10 would be of great use to ultra runners as the authors’ guidelines regulate the intensity of your workouts and provide you with safe and efficient training programs. There is even text on how to classify your current fitness level, providing information on how to conduct a treadmill test to predict your oxygen uptake capacity – or V0² max.
Although Heart Rate Training (Second Edition) does not solely focus on ultra running, it’s a great addition to any training publication collection and will certainly come in handy.
Rating: 4 out of 5
RRP: US$89.00
WIN A COPY
AURA together with Human Kinetics is giving away a copy of Heart Rate Training (Second Edition) to one lucky AURA member. If you would like to be in the running, simply email ultramag@aura.asn.au with subject heading ‘Heart Rate Training book’ and in the body of your email include your full name, postal address and phone number.
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