Ready to take your fitness to the next level? Measuring heart rate in the body's response to exercise is one of the easiest and most accurate ways of modifying your training program. Dr Tom Buckley returns to discuss how to use science to ensure you are optimising not just training, but also recovery and heart rate.
Heart rate training involves monitoring heart rate during exercise and it is through understanding how your heart responds to different intensity that you can tailor workouts to meet specific goals, whether that is fat loss, endurance, speed, or even enhanced cognitive capacity.
In this episode Andrew and Dr Tom discuss:
2:30 Using Polar heart rate monitors in the 80s.
5:30 The 5 metrics that underpin Performance Intelligence.
7:15 Where Dr Tom sees heart rate training going in the future.
8:30 Using heart rate as the main metric when training.
12:00 You get the main benefit of heart rate training during recovery.
14:20 Why Heart rate never lies.
16:45 The reliability of different methods of heart rate monitoring.
21:15 What Dr Tom and Andrew recommend you buy to monitor your heart rate.
24:00 The 5 different Heart Rate Zones.
29:00 Dr Tom’s max heart rate as a lifelong athlete.
32:00 Do most of your training in Zone 2.
34:30 Each person has a unique heart rate during training that works for them.
40:00 The 50 50 50 50 rule.
43:50 Don’t train the heart rate monitor, train the person.
44:50 Practical exercise tips for training heart rate.
49:50 Dr Tom’s tips for gym exercises.
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