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Heart Rate Monitors: Do They Make a Difference? » Complete Running Network

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ryanwestman   Dec 5th 2007, 1:27am
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12/04/07 

Heart rate monitors have become very popular running aides in recent years, but do we know how to get the best out of them? You can buy them in all sorts of configurations, from fairly cheap ones (I got mine for about $35) to ones costing several hundred dollars, which claim do everything bar the actual running for you.

The easiest way is to buy a book (or read a Web site) that covers the topic of heart-rate training. These invariably contain a table of target heart rate zones, which should be easy enough to follow. One problem with using percent heart rates to set efforts is that they can be too dictating. You don’t always feel the same, sometimes a run of 145 bmp (beats per minute) feels easy, and sometimes it feels hard. Slavishly following set numbers is not always a good idea.

Read the full article at: completerunning.com

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