Is Zone 2 Right For Zone You?
Two Gomers Podcast
Anthony Georgeson and Steven Grahmann
4.9 • 518 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
We’re talking heart rates in this running-heavy episode, and taking a look at a way to exercise that’s getting a lot of attention these days: Zone 2 Training. What is it? How does it help make cardio more effective? Are there fun formulas to help figure it all out? The answer to that last one is a resounding yes, and the guys work it out together. Plus accidental NYC racing, romance running, Grand Canyon chat, and K-Pop Demon Hunters.
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| 0:00.0 | Previously on the Twocombers podcast. |
| 0:05.5 | He stopped looking at pace and just start looking at Zone 2. |
| 0:09.9 | And I was just trying to do the calculations earlier, and I totally did him wrong because of the way I did. |
| 0:16.2 | Google, what should my heart rate be or something? |
| 0:19.0 | Well, it had like a calculation, right? Like, what am I in be or something? Well, it had like, it had like a calculation, right? |
| 0:21.7 | Like, what am I in calculus or something? |
| 0:24.7 | My resting heart rate is like 90. |
| 0:28.1 | Okay, right. |
| 0:28.8 | So I 100% clearly did those calculations wrong. |
| 0:32.5 | And we did it right before the podcast. |
| 0:34.0 | So we'll report back, but that is certainly not my zone too. Okay. And if it is, |
| 0:41.3 | then I can't run anymore. You're listening to the Two GOMers podcast, a show about two regular |
| 0:49.2 | guys in their 40s, embracing midlife, chasing healthy aging, and inviting a nation along for the run. |
| 0:56.6 | This is the fifth episode of season 13. |
| 0:59.9 | Is Zone 2 right for Zone 2 for August 29th, 2025? |
| 1:07.0 | 20 weeks to the race. |
| 1:40.9 | Yeah. 20 weeks to the race. Welcome, everybody to this, the fifth episode of season 13 is Zone 2, right for Zone You. |
| 1:45.7 | This is Anthony speaking, one of those two of former Jim GOMers coming to you from Atlanta, Georgia, |
| 1:50.4 | with my friend Stephen in some other zone, some other time zone, right? |
| 1:51.8 | Yeah, time zone me. |
| 1:55.9 | Time zone you, all the way out in Flagstaff, Arizona. |
| 1:59.9 | I really had to sell Anthony on this, the title of this app, everyone. If you do watch this on video, if you're a 13.1 |
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