Heart Rate Training
What is Involved in Heart Rate Training?
Most people who believe they are out of shape or overweight will tell you that as soon as they push themselves physically – whether it is jogging, cycling, climbing up a flight stairs - they feel as if their heart is going to pound out of their chest. during exercise, doing it without proper understanding of the consequences is not exactly healthy or safe and can potentially be more dangerous than beneficial. To be a serious athlete, you need to understand the concept of proper heart rate training in order to spare yourself the discomfort and possible danger of an overly elevated heart rate when you’re exercising.
Since the heart itself is a muscle, Heart rate training is much like exercising any other muscle in your body. Training your biceps or quadriceps, you would normally start off with a lesser amount of weight and gradually increased the load as you got became stronger. As you get stronger, you are naturally able to increase the load you’re lifting, increase the number of reps when you lift, or a little bit of both.
One great aspect of specific heart rate training is your heart is getting a workout as soon as you increase your heart rate – no matter what exercise you may be doing. Unlike your other specific muscles - if you are just running, your arms don’t get any real exercise. If you are working on your chest and doing bench press, your legs won’t get any benefit. However your heart IS getting some real fitness benefit since it is working harder to support your blood circulation and it is under load while pushing weights since your heart needs to feed blood to your working muscles. As a triathlete, aerobic exercise which is basically heart rate specific training, as well as core & strength training is required since you’ll need not just all-around endurance, but have extended core muscle strength & endurance which will also come with better aerobic fitness. When you swim, you use your muscles to propel you through the water but it’s an aerobic activity as well; this also applies to the basic strength and muscle requirements of bicycling and running as well.
Obviously, having a good heart rate monitor is necessary and you’re anaerobic the whole time, you may need to work on your leg strength to cope with the added load of cycling – as your legs grow stronger, your cardiovascular system won’t have to work as hard to move yourself up that hill. While heart rate training, remember to work your way up slowly to your desired level of fitness and endurance.
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