Welcome to the August 8th , 2001 edition of The Heart Zones e-Newslettercopyright: Heart Zones, your source of heart rate training information
=====================================================================In this issue:1. Heart Zones has launched a new website and we need you! 2. End of Summer advice: Scenario I3. End of Summer advice: Scenario II4. Lance Armstrong has two hearts! Also...5. Seminar and Certification dates announced for Fall, 2001! 6. Heart Zones Cycling’s Red Jerseys Ride Across America!7. Get involved in your school. How Heart Zones Education can help.8. Get the new WHITEPAPER: the Fat Burning Range if you haven’t done so already.
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1. Heart Zones has launched a new website and we need you! Check out HeartZones new website and tell us what you think by sending an email to staff@heartzone.com. Our goal is to make it easier for you to access information and navigate your way around. Let us know how we’re doing. It’s been 3-years since we changed the website and has the web changeddramatically in that amount of time. There are articles to read, seminars to take, certifications to sign up for, stuff to buy, and people to contact – so go there and see for yourself.
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2. End of Summer: Scenario I: Peaking It’s the end of summer and you’re getting ready for the big finale, the race you’ve been training for all season long! What should you be doing to fine tune your skills and be your best come race day? Whether you’re one week out or four weeks out from the big one, you should be thinking about tapering, which will come in the days/week prior to your race. You should think about cutting your weekly volume by approximately 50% and maintaining intensity with shorter, faster intervals with plenty of recovery. Your peak training should include approximately 10% zone 5, 24% zone 4, 50% zone 3, and 16% zones 1 and 2. Work on your mental skills this week, visualizing your entire race and how it will feel. If you have more than a couple of weeks before the big race, you should be really sharpening your racing skills including starts, finishes, and transitions. Fine tune your swim with long, strong strokes. Practice in open water if your race includes an open water swim. Bike some hills if your race is on a hilly course. Have your nutrition, if necessary, figured out and practiced during your trainings. And always remember: It’s always better to err on the side of under-training than over-training.
==============================================================3. End of Summer: Scenario II: Burnout It’s the end of summer and you’re abnormally fatigued and have no desire to train. What’s up with this? You can blame a lot of things if you evaluate your season:Over-trainingToo many racesPeaking too earlyImproper nutritionStresses (personal, family and work related)
First, take time off. Ask yourself if you’ve given yourself enough recovery between races and between trainings. Has it been a long season? Too long? Did you have your best race in the early season, only to have settled for less than your best recently? Have you lost weight? Are your relationships struggling? Time off now will only help rejuvenate you. Who knows, you may still have in you a late season race. Use this information now to help you plan better for next year. ==============================================================
4. Lance Armstrong has two hearts! During Stage 13 of the Tour de France, super champions Jan Ullrich and Lance Armstrong both gained big points in the popularity polls as they both rode with enormous heart and soul. Stage 13 was 194km. On this particular day in the middle of an attack on the descent of the Peyresourde Pass, Ullrich missed a turn and somersaulted into a ravine. Ullrich quickly remounted and started chasing, however realizing the Tour was probably lost to him that day. But it was Armstrong who won the hearts of many. When Ullrich crashed, Armstrong slowed and waited. And when the German finally chased back, Armstrong dropped to the back of the group to ask how he was. Now, that’s Tour de France riding, with two hearts, the emotional heart and the physical heart! Visit www.heartzones.com/blitz and your own emotional heart. Congratulations Lance Armstrong and the US Postal Team from Heart Zones!
===============================================================5. New seminar dates for the Fall, 2001 announced!
September 15 Chicago, Illinois Heart Zones Training and Blue JerseySeptember 22 Denver, Colorado Heart Zones Training, Workshops, and Blue JerseySeptember 29 Long Island, NY Heart Zones Training, Cycling WorkshopOctober 6 Seattle, WA Heart Zones Training, Workshops, and Blue JerseyOctober 14 Washington, DC Heart Zones Training and Blue JerseyOctober 21 Chicago, Illinois Heart Zones Training and Blue JerseyNovember 10 Cleaveland, OH Heart Zones Training and Blue JerseyNovember 17 New York Heart Zones Training, Workshops, and Blue JerseyDecember 8 Texas Heart Zones Training, Workshops, and Blue Jersey
Watch for upcoming certifications in Phoenix, San Francisco, Kansas City, Columbus OH, Minneapolis, and Ottawa, CN! Don’t see a city near you? Contact mkent11@aol.com to host a seminar or certification.
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6. Red Jersey’s Ride Across America! Heart Zones Cycling wants to give HZ Red Jersey’s Alinda Perrine and Bobby Guet of West Virginia the best of luck as they and several others on their team ride their bikes across America this August 19 through September 30. Alinda and Bobby, both Red Jersey Master Trainers with the Heart Zones Cycling company, will be doing the entire 3.600 mile ride along with a friend from Alabama, Nick Seig. The rest of the 12 member team will be riding the entire distance as a team, taking turns on different legs of the journey. Bobby is leaving on Aug 13 to drive the 33 ft 5th Wheel Sport Utility Trailer to the start point at Huntington Beach, CA. The final destination is Savannah, GA. The bicycle route is CA, northern Arizona; northern NM; (may be little of Texas); Oklahoma; Arkanas, MS, AL, GA. Good luck to all on a safe and fun journey. By the way, all riders will be wearing heart rate monitors! We’re anxious to hear what their average heart rates for the ride will be!
===============================================================7. Get involved in your school! For many of us growing up, PE classes were a real chore. We had to run, jump, throw, hit the ball, and play just like everyone else in the class. If we weren’t as good, we had to sit on the bench, or take ridicule from our peers. What was missing 20 or 30 years ago, was the realization that every child’s physiology was different. We know a lot more now, thanks to Heart Zones Education, led by Deve Swaim, who has just completed a new curriculum for Grades 9-12. Research has shown that students learn and retain more when empowered to take charge of their own physical education. Students are given the tools (a heart rate monitor) and the lesson plan for the day and are asked to accomplish a specific task (suchas monitor and record recovery heart rate). The success of Heart Zones Education is growing. What can you do? Ask to attend your child’s physical education class and observe. Most schools will allow this. Is your school using heart rate monitors? If they are, do the children/students understand what that number on their heart rate monitors mean? What kind of exercise program/lesson plan are they doing that day? If your school doesn’t use heart rate monitors yet, now’s the time to get involved. Check out www.heartzones.com/education for information on programming available to your school today!
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8. If you still haven’t received the new WHITE PAPER: How to Enlarge Your Fat Burning Range with Heart Zones Training you still have a chance to get it. Just click on one of the following links: Whitepaper.pdf http://www.heartzones.com/hz/whitepaperletter.html The WHITE PAPER: Enlarging your Fat Burning Range will help you understand the Fat Burning Range, the Burn Rate, and the Shift in Energy. You will understand finally, how to enlarge the fat burning range and can begin setting weight loss goals. This paper is critical when a large percentage of America is considered obese. On a recent trip to an airport, Kathy Kent reported, “I decided to count the number of people who appeared overweight. In a mere 3 minutes, I counted almost 3 out of every 4 individuals who looked like they could use a diet change and/or an increase in their activity. This is very scary! We need to get people moving and get them to realize that it doesn’t take a huge time or money commitment to begin seeing small changes. It’s like Kaizen…if we can change one little 1% thing every day over a period of 100 days, we can achieve a 100% change.” Get the WHITE PAPER today and begin educating yourself. Then, share it with a friend.
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