Heart Monitors: When they can help and when they can’t

Heart Monitors: When they can help and when they can’t

When Heart Monitors can help:

  1. To hold you back during a long one-especially at the end
  2. To make sure that an easy day is really easy
  3. To ensure that “form accelerations” are “easy gliders”
  4. To help you improve racing form-without overtraining
  5. To keep you from having a long recovery after speed sessions
  6. To tell you when you have rested enough between repetitions in a speed session

When Heart Monitors don’t help:

  1. At the beginning of long ones (especially if you try to stay close to 70 percent max heart rate)
  2. When you don’t know your exact maximum heart rate
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Jeff Galloway

Jeff Galloway, US Olympian and creator of the Run-Walk-Run method, has helped over 350,000 runners achieve their goals through his innovative training programs. As Runner's World's monthly columnist and author of North America's best-selling running book, Jeff has spent over 50 years sharing his expertise and continues to conduct running seminars worldwide as runDisney's Official Training Consultant.

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