If you’ve 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 you’ve 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 don’t choose to train in the Z4 Threshold zone, it’s a place you’re no doubt familiar with, though maybe you are unfamiliar with its name. Here’s a hint: this is also known as the “shortness of breath” zone. Sound familiar? It’s the zone where you feel the…
The Aerobic zone gives you the most “bang for your buck.” Here you’ll get the most benefits in the least amount of time. If you said, “I want everything from exercise,” this is your zone. The Z3 Aerobic zone gets you fitter, gets you faster, gets you thinner. That’s why it’s been touted for decades…
As a life-long athlete, I’ve 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. “I 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 it’s beginning to look like our goal is in sight. Ponce, a Spanish explorer who arrived in the new world in the 1500’s, may have died from the blood-thirsty mosquitoes, but many…
**This post is one of several in an excerpt series from the book, Be a Better Runner by Sally Edwards & Carl Foster** How much are you really running? The threshold running system is really powerful because it adds something that no other running program incorporates: how much and how hard you are running. At its most…