7 Steps to Using a Heart Rate Monitor Heart Zones Training with your mind-body link â the heart rate monitor – may seem confusing at first. Youâll be learning and discovering new ways of looking at the effort you put out, new ways of understanding fitness that you were never taught in your physical…
7 Steps to Using a Heart Rate Monitor Heart Zones Training with your mind-body link â the heart rate monitor – may seem confusing at first. Youâll be learning and discovering new ways of looking at the effort you put out, new ways of understanding fitness that you were never taught in your physical…
Max Heart Rate, Testing, Zoning for Conditioning Heart rate training is a very useful tool for make big gains in cardiovascular conditioning, provided itâs based on good effective estimations of what is appropriate intensity levels per the athlete/student. Max Heart Rate (MHR) can be measured accurately in the lab but is time consuming and fairly…
About 35 years ago, I started using heart rate data as a guide and the heart rate monitor as my companion for all my workouts. I used it to train and qualify for the 1984 USA Olympic Marathon Womenâs Trials. Along with 200 of the fastest marathoners in America, I ran the qualifying time of…
Swimming with Heart Rate It’s time to try swimming with Heart Rate again. About 20 years ago, I started using heart rate as a guide for all my workouts, as I swam, biked and ran my way through numerous Sprint, Olympic, Half-Ironman and Ironman distance triathlons.  Heart Rate became my Coach.  Heart Rate kept me motivated…
Why to use Threshold for Heart Rate Field Tests By: Sally Edwards Many of you have asked for my recommendation on the Pacer test and using heart rate testing on students. After having spent 30 years field testing kids and adults to set zones, I strongly support the Threshold methodology in school PE over Max…
Where the Blink Heart Rate Monitors Started A little History I bought my first heart rate monitor in 1981. I had co-founded Fleet Feet Sports five years earlier and I was on the hunt for a way to run faster and longer. That first monitor, biofeedback device, didn’t look like anything you see today because…
Interested in learning more about Heart Rate Training? Want to learn some of the basics of how to use heart rate monitors effectively for training and feedback? Check out this Ch.1 excerpt from Sally Edwards’ upcoming book Smart PE – Using Heart Rate Sensors and Activity Trackers for Physical Education! Read more…. Chapter One –…
Find YOUR Wearable Device The answer to this question – Which Fits You? – is that it depends. Heart rate monitors measure and monitor the quality of your activity. Activity trackers measure and monitor the quantity of your activity. The two are quite different. Heart rate monitors are measuring the load or the stress on…
Moving out of the labs and into the streets, wearable technologies have the buzz as they begin to hit gyms and fitness enthusiasts attention. Itâs called disruptive technologies and Google Glass is leading the buzzwaves. Moving from âswipesâ to voice commands or head gestures or simple tap controls – the new head-up displays can capture…