Zone 1 Cardio Biking Lesson haha….
haha I dunno. Anywho, so from the past two days workouts I’m proud to say my upper body feels like one huge bruise. It feels faaareaking awesome! So today I had the day off from lifting and just did cardio which was me riding my bike to and from work. Now I’ve already done my studies in my NASM book on the cardiorespiratory training, and now I finally understand the background on why my coach has me keep my heart rate around 145 for fat burning purposes. I’m (gasp, bday this week) 27 so my max heart rate is 220-27= 193, so my max is 193. For fat burning the optimal range to keep your heart rate is around 65-75% of my max. SOoo that would be in the range of 125-145 bpm. Well I don’t have a heart monitor when I’m biking BUT this past year when I was in my cutting cycle and riding the stationary bike SIX days a week for 45mins, I MEMORIZED what my heart rate feels like at 145. Yeah sounds weird I can’t explain. So I make sure that when I’m biking to and from work I keep it in that zone. Once you reach "Zone 2" which is near anabolic threshold, you get to the point where the body can no longer produce enough energy for the muscles with normal oxygen intake…..in other words, not efficient fat burning!
September 23, 2008 at 5:07 am
btw happy birthday……and for the hr monitor i have a polar f6 and i love it… it also does calories cause you have to put your stats in etc… anywho ,sometimes when im riding i feel like my hr is up there and i look down and its not…so im glad i have the monitor,but id say you have great judgement your body is freakin amazing
September 23, 2008 at 11:50 am
hahaha, oh my soooo funny!!!! 27 ……. !!!! happy b’day
hope you celebrate with something awesome ….