And How To Incorporate Heart Zones Training As the inventors and developers of zone training, Heart Zones is passionate about transforming your high intensity interval training by incorporating personalized fitness methodology and technology. Are you asking yourself, what is high intensity interval training and how can I optimize it using the Heart Zones method? High…
INTERVAL TRAINING FOR COMPETITIVE ATHLETES The first workout type in a high performance program is intervals. Intervals add variety both in your training and in your training benefits, adaptations, so you can most efficiently improve your fitness level. If you are not doing interval training as part of your schedule now, it’s me to start.…
Climbing trees has always been fun for me. Even as a kid when my three older brothers and I had a tree fort and played games in the fort, it was adventuresome. It’s the same today. I love to climb trees and I hope that you fall in love with climbing this tree because it…
Principle No. 5 of Heart Zones Training is a System. Once you pick the one that suits you, then you know where you are going to spend time in the heart zones. The KISS Principle (Keep It Simple, Stupid) isn’t easy when we’re talking about all the parts of the whole, then integrating that whole…
Principle No. 4 of Heart Zones Training: Wellness is a Continuum. The great science fiction writer Ray Bradbury once wrote about, “the naming of names,” the all-too-human urge to make sure everything has a handle for us to hold on to. We in the fitness industry are no different. In fact, think about the word…
Principle No. 3 of Heart Zones Training: You manage best what you can measure and monitor. This simple statement has become a mantra for American business over the last few years, and it needs to be a personal mantra for every one of us. Why? Think about it; many of our so-called “failures” in diets…
Principle No. 2 of Heart Zones Training: Multiple zones give multiple benefits. Remember all those charts on the walls of aerobics or weightrooms, charts listing our “target heart rate zone”? Good. Now forget them. If we want the individualized benefits of Heart Zones Training, we’re going to forget about that single, set zone and concentrate…
Principle No. 1 of Heart Zones Training: Your sneakers are fitted; your training should be, too. Every fitness plan has the holy ground of principle: “Thou shalt not allow a cookie to cross thine lips”…“Thou shalt run ‘til thou drop”…“Thou shalt suffer pain, then gain.” Heart Zones Training, too, has its principles, but there are…
Whether you are aiming for a weight-loss or any fitness goal, it is always essential for you to listen and know what your body is telling you. As being one of the leading causes of death in the recent times, cardiovascular diseases are very much subtle in its whole form. Although you intend to say…
Rules of Cardio Training • Don’t overdo it. “No pain, no gain” is hogwash. The better expression is “No train, no gain.” Training in the heart zones achieves cardio benefits and has nothing to do with pain if you begin in the Blue zone (the easy zone). If you haven’t exercised routinely for a…