Three Reasons to Ditch HR Training
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🗓️ 6 April 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
How training using your heart rate monitor can hold you back from reaching your potential? In this episode, Coach Claire shares 3 reasons to ditch HR training and then gives you the best ways to improve your running without using heart rate.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Runners Connect audio blog. This is Coach Claire Bartholic. Today I'm reading three |
| 0:15.8 | reasons you need to ditch heart rate training by coach Jeff Gaudette. Saying that debt. |
| 0:28.0 | Saying that heart rate training is popular is putting it mildly. You might be listening to this article as you are looking for the best way to monitor your heart rate while running or even a heart rate training running plan. |
| 0:37.0 | Thanks to running magazines and the companies that sell running gadgets, |
| 0:42.0 | runners feel that they need a heart rate monitor. the companies that sell running gadgets. |
| 0:42.6 | Runners feel that they need a heart rate monitor |
| 0:45.2 | to train for running, and without it, |
| 0:47.2 | they are at a disadvantage to the rest of the running world. |
| 0:51.0 | The potential benefits of training with a heart rate monitor have been so ubiquitously espoused in running magazines that many runners feel it's an absolute necessity to train by heart rate. Here's the deal. Heart rate monitors |
| 1:05.4 | can keep you in the right training zones, prevent over training and help monitor |
| 1:09.9 | progress. But did you consider this? Training using a heart rate monitor may be holding |
| 1:16.7 | you back from reaching your potential. No really. In my experience as a coach and athlete, training by heart rate is less accurate and more problematic than training by pace and feel, unless you are a very experienced runner. |
| 1:32.0 | Therefore, I don't recommend it to the athletes I coach. |
| 1:35.3 | Today I'm going to give you three reasons why I do not recommend heart rate monitor |
| 1:40.7 | training and then give you the best ways you can improve your |
| 1:44.3 | running without using heart rate. Five reasons your heart rate does not match |
| 1:50.3 | running effort. Perhaps the biggest limitation to heart rate training is that many changes in your heart rate do not |
| 1:58.0 | correlate to your fitness level. |
| 2:00.0 | Sleep, stress, and dehydration can all raise or lower heart rate on any given day. |
| 2:06.0 | As normal people with jobs, families, and otherwise busy lives, |
| 2:11.0 | these outside variables are common and can have a drastic effect on your heart rate |
| 2:15.8 | readings, meaning that your heart rate does not fit within the training zones. |
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