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Heart Rate Training
If you are serious about fitness, health, and performance, then Heart Rate Training, Second Edition, is for you. With a myriad of affordable smartphone apps and wearable devices enabling you to track your body's response to activity, it's never been easier to use heart rate monitoring to customize your training--and this guide will show you how!
In Heart Rate Training, Second Edition, authors Roy Benson and Declan Connolly combine decades of coaching experience, scientific research, and practical knowledge to help you understand the best way to make your heart rate monitor work for you. They will show you how to get reliable data from your device, dispel myths surrounding heart rate monitors, and make it easy for you to calculate your ideal target heart rate. Then you'll learn how to customize your training by varying the intensity, duration, frequency, and mode of your exercise sessions as you work toward improving endurance, stamina, economy, and speed.
Information on heart rate variability (HRV) training further prepares you to individualize your training plan based on your personal goals. As a bonus, sample exercise programs will guide you in manipulating training components to design long-term training plans for walking, running, cycling, swimming, triathlons, rowing, cross-country skiing, and team sports.
When you are ready to take training and performance to the next level, turn to Heart Rate Training, and achieve your personal best.
CE exam available! For certified professionals, a companion continuing education exam can be completed after reading this book. Heart Rate Training, Second Edition Online CE Exam, may be purchased separately or as part of the Heart Rate Training, Second Edition With CE Exam, package that includes both the book and the exam.
In Heart Rate Training, Second Edition, authors Roy Benson and Declan Connolly combine decades of coaching experience, scientific research, and practical knowledge to help you understand the best way to make your heart rate monitor work for you. They will show you how to get reliable data from your device, dispel myths surrounding heart rate monitors, and make it easy for you to calculate your ideal target heart rate. Then you'll learn how to customize your training by varying the intensity, duration, frequency, and mode of your exercise sessions as you work toward improving endurance, stamina, economy, and speed.
Information on heart rate variability (HRV) training further prepares you to individualize your training plan based on your personal goals. As a bonus, sample exercise programs will guide you in manipulating training components to design long-term training plans for walking, running, cycling, swimming, triathlons, rowing, cross-country skiing, and team sports.
When you are ready to take training and performance to the next level, turn to Heart Rate Training, and achieve your personal best.
CE exam available! For certified professionals, a companion continuing education exam can be completed after reading this book. Heart Rate Training, Second Edition Online CE Exam, may be purchased separately or as part of the Heart Rate Training, Second Edition With CE Exam, package that includes both the book and the exam.
- GenresNonfictionHealth
272 pages, Paperback
Published November 26, 2019
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May 20, 2021
This book has a pretty unique and fascinating approach to running training. Nearly every other running training program is focused on your output: your pace, your power, your finish time, your miles or minutes run. This book is focused primarily on your input: your heart rate, day after day during your runs.
Following these programs for a little while I’ve seen definite improvements. And I’ve also found I can run for hours at a time with no muscle pain and nearly no recovery time afterward, which is completely unlike my experience with previous running programs. With that said, the program is fairly radical. Beginning it requires suspending disbelief as you will be running FAR slower than you would consider proper exercise, way slower than a so-called “easy” run. Following these programs required me to have a heart monitor strap/watch/earbud setup and then program a watch app with the routines, so it was a very techy sort of experience that many people I know would not be comfortable with. But so far I’m impressed by the approach. It’s sort of a Maffetone-like approach but with an actual program and some scientific backing behind it.
Following these programs for a little while I’ve seen definite improvements. And I’ve also found I can run for hours at a time with no muscle pain and nearly no recovery time afterward, which is completely unlike my experience with previous running programs. With that said, the program is fairly radical. Beginning it requires suspending disbelief as you will be running FAR slower than you would consider proper exercise, way slower than a so-called “easy” run. Following these programs required me to have a heart monitor strap/watch/earbud setup and then program a watch app with the routines, so it was a very techy sort of experience that many people I know would not be comfortable with. But so far I’m impressed by the approach. It’s sort of a Maffetone-like approach but with an actual program and some scientific backing behind it.
November 27, 2025
This is a tough book to rate and a tough one to review. I read it because I’m looking to improve my aerobic/cardiovascular endurance since I have a tendency to always be in the anaerobic zone when I do essentially any cardio.
2026 is going to be a big year for me for hiking, and I’d prefer not to be miserable when I’m trekking to Everest Base Camp or hiking along the Tour du Mont Blanc in the Alps. As it stands now, though, I kind of hate hiking.
At any rate, I gave this book 4 stars because the concepts were clear and they made sense to me physiologically. If, by following the recommendations this author made, I improve my ability to hike in zone 3 instead of always in zone 4 or 5, this book could open up untold opportunities for me to explore the world.
If, though, it doesn’t work, then it was a relatively dry read, without any true usefulness.
I am very much crossing my fingers for the former outcome.
2026 is going to be a big year for me for hiking, and I’d prefer not to be miserable when I’m trekking to Everest Base Camp or hiking along the Tour du Mont Blanc in the Alps. As it stands now, though, I kind of hate hiking.
At any rate, I gave this book 4 stars because the concepts were clear and they made sense to me physiologically. If, by following the recommendations this author made, I improve my ability to hike in zone 3 instead of always in zone 4 or 5, this book could open up untold opportunities for me to explore the world.
If, though, it doesn’t work, then it was a relatively dry read, without any true usefulness.
I am very much crossing my fingers for the former outcome.
March 10, 2020
Wonderful book to check out if you are going into a field of study that includes dealing with heart rates and more. Easy to follow.
December 5, 2022
Wanted more specifics into how to build better fitness in running. Talks too much about other sports other than running . Is a good book and I learned key points .
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