Anyway, the work out was another hard one. After conversing with Justin via e-mail over the weekend and he looking at my garmin data, he adjusted my HR zones...up...way up... So the task today was to do 4 times 6 minutes at a (in my opinion) high heart rate with 4 minutes easy pedalling in between. But it took me a minute or so to get up into that HR zone. I can manage to keep it there, but today, it seemed like ALOT of work to get up there. I need to find out if I should be starting the interval at that rate? Or if what I am doing is okay? Because the average HR was not as high as I think Justin had wanted....I think I just answered my own question...darn it, because that was a very hard go today!! Next is a swim tomorrow morning and another hard run on Thursday.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Kind of like an outdoor bike ride...?
I moved my bike and trainer upstairs this morning as I could not take another dark morning in the basement. I set it up in front of the living room window so I could at least look outside, if I am not going to BE outside. What was funny, was that my 5 year old gets up today and says "Mom, I heard you practising your bike again and you were breathing really weird." Out of the mouths of babes...
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HA! Kids don't lie...unfortunately...
Mommy please don't cut my hand off... LOL!! :) :)
Something that might help with getting the HR higher is doing some fast 1min intervals before your workout. I do 5 1min pickups in zone 5 before each workout and it helps with getting the blood flowing the HR going.
I agree with Brandi, a warm up with several spin ups is a great way to get your HR going.
Me personally, I do a warm up of 15-20 minutes before I start my workout sets. Sometimes I'll start easy and slowly build in my intensity, or switch to a harder gear every 5 minutes but maintain cadence. Other times, I'll to 5 x20 second sprints with a minutes rest in between each.
When it comes to doing a set workout in a particuliar zone, I can't flick a switch and be at that targetted heart rate. IE, if I am doing 5 x6 minute intervals at my lactate threshold, when the 6 minute interval starts I build into it - work my heart rate into the zone and try to maintain it.
Hope that makes sense.
Your heart rate can take up to a minute to reflect your effort. So you might be where you want without your heart rate showing that.
And yes, a good warm up, including some hard spin ups, will help.
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