by zaadmin | Jan 20, 2012 | Training
If you are reading the MAPP, chances are you already use heart rate as a measure of your exercise intensity. The basics are that 1) heart rate serves as a measure of exercise intensity during steady state activities, and 2) If we estimate maximal heart rate as 220...
by zaadmin | Dec 24, 2011 | Training
The article below leads on from the first article Understanding Intervals INTERPRETATION There are two major points I want to draw from Dr. Astrand’s experiments: 1) Intermittent exercise allows a higher total volume of high intensity work. Performed continuously, the...
by zaadmin | Dec 20, 2011 | Training
Matching training characteristics to physiological changes Which is “better”, Interval Training or Steady State Training? Obviously that is simplistically stated, but I will try to make things more clear as we go. Eight years ago, my master’s thesis asked this exact...