If youâve made it to the Red Line zone, with heart rates from 90% to 100% of your maximum heart rate, you have arrived at the top of the heap. Maybe we should say, if youâve made it to the Z5 Red Line zone on purpose, you have arrived. Like the Threshold zone, this is…
Welcome to the Threshold zone! Even if you donât choose to train in the Z4 Threshold zone, itâs a place youâre no doubt familiar with, though maybe you are unfamiliar with its name. Hereâs a hint: this is also known as the âshortness of breathâ zone. Sound familiar? Itâs the zone where you feel the…
The Aerobic zone gives you the most âbang for your buck.â Here youâll get the most benefits in the least amount of time. If you said, âI want everything from exercise,â this is your zone. The Z3 Aerobic zone gets you fitter, gets you faster, gets you thinner. Thatâs why itâs been touted for decades…
As a life-long athlete, Iâve never had the sort of intimate relationship with the fat battle that some people have, but a woman named Lisa brought reality home to me with her experience. âI was 135 pounds before the birth of my first daughter, but 210 pounds after the birth of my second. One day,…
The search has been on for the fountain of youth since before poor Ponce de Leon ever set foot on Florida soil, but itâs beginning to look like our goal is in sight. Ponce, a Spanish explorer who arrived in the new world in the 1500âs, may have died from the blood-thirsty mosquitoes, but many…
Heart Zones FIT Points Thanks to Ken Cooper, MD, writing the paradigm-shifting book Aerobics almost fifty years ago, the world has taken a giant step forward by following his exercise prescription of counting âaerobic pointsâ. He carefully designed a new generation of exercise and sparked a revolution in fitness that was based on important principles,…
Using a Heart Rate Monitor to Screen for Heart Health in Physical Education© âOne of the reasons I first became interested in the Heart Zones Move Solution was for its ability to âscreenâ students for potential heart health challenges. A number of years ago, I had a 4th grade student go down in my PE…
TRAINING HEART RATE NOT TARGET HEART RATE Busting some myths is harder than others. Busting the target heart rate theory is more difficult than keeping off the twenty pounds from the last diet. Few succeed at keeping the weight off, but weâll take a shot at target heart rates anyway. The target heart rate zone…
What is Maximum Heart Rate? Maximum heart rate is the highest number of times per minute your heart can contract. This makes sense, doesnât it? Itâs the heart rate at the point of exhaustion in an all-out short effort. You can continue to increase your intensity, but when you reach the maximum heart rate point,…
The Heart Rate Monitor: History & More The heart rate monitor was in the realm of sci-fi not so very long ago. Researchers started checking heart rates around 1912, using water buckets as counterweights in the first laboratory model. The first electronic heart-monitoring tool, the electrocardiograph, was originally the size of a room, and even…