Use your heart rate monitor for more than just a training tool. Your heart rate monitor is a motivation monitor. Your heart rate monitor is a weight loss monitor. Your heart rate monitor is an emotional monitor. Your heart rate monitor is a performance monitor.
But, your heart rate monitor can do more than that for you. There are lots of different ways to use a monitor to learn more about you and your responses. Here are a couple of novel and new applications:
Compatibility with Your Partner. Reality television show “Dinner Date Challenge” pairs together people they find the most attractive. Participants are fitted with special heart rate monitors and must seduce, flirt and do whatever it takes to get their partners’ pulse rates soaring. First show pairs Jermaine Jackson, Michael Jackson’s brother with former Hollywood star Shilpa Shetty. The power of the heart rate monitor, the emotional link between you, your heart, and your mate is a new way for you to connect.
Sex and the Heart Rate Monitor. In my book, The Heart Rate Monitor GUIDEBOOK, I dedicate a complete chapter to using a heart rate monitor during intimate moments. It might surprise you the differences in the male and female response during sexual activity (the books is available through www.heartzones.com). You can read about sex and the heart rate monitor or alternatively, use your heart rate monitor in a new way, with your partner and do your own research.
And, I don’t need to know your results on this new way of using your monitor. I already know.
Sally,
Hey! This is one of the Team Danskin Training coaches in Austin, TX! I hope you are having a wonderful start to 2007!!! I sure am!!
Since I just broke up with my boyfriend, I can’t try your suggestions for use of a heart rate monitor just now… But, perhaps in the future!
I had some time over the holidays to catch up on some reading and one of those reading tasks was to catch up on your blogs. Wow. You picked some really good topics. Ones that I connect with… Here are some comments I have…
The way you are approaching your cholesterol issue is great! I have several friends who are approaching their issues similarly and I have forwarded your blog to them. Your efforts will so inspire them and encourage them to stay with ‘non-prescription’ alternatives. Bravo!
Several of your past blogs elicited related responses from me. Solving this fitness epidemic, who our fitness heroes are, etc. One reason I love the Danskin series and TDT is that it opens up the possibility of lifestyle changes in women in a way that it might not happen otherwise. And I like being a part of helping these women make those changes.
But, I see a lot of ladies not continuing in a fitness lifestyle after the Danskin because there are not the programs that foster their development. There are all kinds of programs that get more and more aggressive, catering to the driven, performance-focused athlete. But, not a lot out there that supports a gentle process with a focus of learning to LOVE exercise for life. Does your team have something in the works for this? A follow on to TDT? If so, I would love to be involved.
If not, I am working on a project of my own to try to provide what I feel is lacking… But because of this lack, for runners and triathletes like me (and for the beginning runners and triathletes), there are not a lot of heroes we can look to. I feel sad in saying that… So, I guess I want to try to define what I feel is missing.
This project of mine stems from my TDT involvement. For years, prior to TDT and a focus on triathlons, I have been and still am a runner that LOVES running. And I left a lot of organized running groups over the years because it seemed their approach took away the enjoyment of running and invited injury, at least for me. But, using my own training style and techniques, I have stayed uninjured and continually gotten faster as a runner, culminating in my qualification for Boston this last year. Now, as I have gotten involved with triathlons more, I find that if tri’s were my only exposure to running, I would not have the love for running that I do!! So, I am trying to see if I can develop a series of workouts for beginning runners that will encourage and foster the love of running. (Perhaps a good title is ‘Getting to the Heart of Running’!) When people enjoy something, they will tend to continue it.
I see lots of ladies out there who really want to enjoy the sport; all we have to do is figure out how to show them that! So, I am working on it!!
And in trying out some of my philosophies and techniques, I am seeing tremendous results in some new runners…
But, enjoyment does not preclude improvement in performance! At least not for me. And I read the book on ‘Flow’ that you recommend in one of your books and the way I train is in a way that puts me in ‘flow’ (peak enjoyment AND peak performance) almost every run. So, even though I think beginning runners would be the easiest to start with, advanced runners could also benefit from some of my philosophies. Sometimes this ‘no pain, no gain’ thing is pushed too far and a lot of runners I am around are constantly injured and don’t know why or can’t get out of the cycle! I have been able to avoid that cycle AND perform well. So, my running buddies are starting to listen to me and get really good results. I must be on to something, don’t you think?
Thank you for reading this. And thank you for providing such a good avenue for so many of us to make a difference! Hopefully, we can continue… I look forward to more of your blogs. And to working with more ladies, coaching them to complete Danskin and then to love exercise as part of the rest of their life!
Happy New Year!
Cindy, Assistant Coach 2006 TDT Austin, TX
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