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I got a new heart rate monitor that I have been jogging with for a couple of weeks. This is my first HRM and it is loaded with features because it is GPS enabled. It is a Garmin 405. After downloading and viewing some of my totals for the first time, I began to wonder how useful or at least interesting this would be while riding. Have any of you used a HRM while riding particularly a Garmin that you can analyze the physical and GPS data? If so, did you operate it in jogging mode? It has a bike mode but I'm sure this is for the pedal type. How did you go about using it and how did it work out? I'm a total newb at this thing, trying to learn a little more each time, but from reading the manual, I think I can set it up to count laps as I cross a certain GPS location. I could see where that could be handy or in my case fun to view. Any thoughts, ideas, do or don't or is this just a crazy thought?
I'm at 185 when riding tough sections.
I can only workout in a gym at 180 before I faint.
I like to ride a practice moto and just try to keep my AVG HR around 180. You'd be surprised but it takes practice to do that. Then, I'd work on increasing my speed a little here and there while trying to keep my AVG HR at the same 180 mark.
Then, inevitably, whenever I race my AVG HR is usually around 190. LOL. I'm certianly not trying to pace myself during a little 5 lap race so it gets up there.
I used to run and MTB a LOT and when I did, I got addicted to having a HRM. I've had a lot of different models but I got to where I liked the run/bike combo ones. Most of mine have been POLAR brand and they are great until the battery goes dead. You have to send it to them to replace the battery.
I tried a TIMEX brand one that didn't even work very well. It would "seize up" (for lack of a better term) on me during exercises and eventually it started giving me some really wacko data like a 230 MAX HR. LMAO!!! POS if you ask me. It didn't last me a year and I only get off the couch like once a quarter.
I'm burning with desire to get one like you got with GPS so I can tell my lap times and hook it up to my computer, but I have a hard time justifying spending that kind of coin when the only shape I'm in is "round". Maybe someday I'll be in shape again and go full-throttle on one.
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Training properly using heart rates takes a little getting used to,heart rate monitors are great,to see whats going on.
I use the "Other" mode for motos. Running, Cycling and Other are all set up differently for me in the settings.
Great tool for working out !
I remember Emig saying RC's HRM goes to 185 by turn 2, and stays there for the entire moto.
I use the F-11 and hit 165-180 riding, but i'm 50..
Benefits of staying at HR X for X amount of time.
You guys doing stuff at 170-180 for extended periods of time are BEASTIE.
If you do use a monitor while riding...and look at your HR...then try to replicate it on a bicycle...you will find you cant!
i guess the unique thing about riding dirtbikes unlike purely fitness based sports is you can still ride while your anerobic...and while pushing that threshold. Most other athletes can not still perform for the necessary amount of time while pushing that threshold.
I'm a youngin..and seeing over 200 is a regular occurance for my peak... The most fit guy I know down here (amazingly fit...can run marathons...bike 100's...swim...etc...though his primary training is riding and it just caries over) avgs 180-183 over a 35min moto, and never maxes above 198-200. That means his max is about 198-200 but his sustained HR is 91-92 percent of max....that's WAY up there for 35 minutes of activity!
The GPS is by far the coolest feature. I had trouble pairing the HRM and just used the GPS for about 2 weeks, distance, time, elevation, average speed, top speed, pace. I physically can't get to funky with it because I can only jog at probably about 60 - 70% effort at 12 min. miles. I used to jog 8 min. miles on a 10 K with my best being a 45.5 min. 6.8 mile pace. That has been a while and before I ever heard of a HRM. It will be interesting to track my progress as I get in better shape. My goal is to jog 8 min mile for 3 miles by Nov. Then it is off for ACL replacement on my other knee.
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http://www.sport-fitness-advisor.com/heart-rate-reserve.html
http://www.fitzones.com/backup/heartrate_zones.htm
This is just one from me walking a loop training some pointing dogs. The red icon is the kennel so I was looping back there to run another dog.
But that was back when I was racing full-time and would hit my versaclimber in the evenings for sessions that lasted anywhere from 45min-120min at a constant heart rate of 180-185 two to three days a week. As well as work with a personal trainer for 3 hours a day 6 days a week starting at 5am every morning.
It was weird, maybe you could explain it for me, because I just dont think I knew enough about training at the time to know what was going on, but my heart rate never really dropped no matter how good of conditioning I was in. I simply could hold a more intense heart rate for a longer period of time as my conditioning go better.
For instance, if I was on my road bike doing a 45 mile ride. Easy ride, no crazy hills. Over the course of my years training, during the same ride, it never really got any "easier", meaning, my heart rate never really dropped over time while doing the same routine. What did occur though was that I was able to sustain that heart rate for a longer period. It just never dropped.
Shouldnt my heart rate get lower for the same exercise over time?
It will be very difficult too achieve the same HR's as MX with other activities.
I'm not a doctor but I stay at Holiday Inn's occasionally
So what your saying is, that over time, as I got in better shape, my heart rate never got lower (for the same exertion) but the "extent of the contraction" got better in my case?
I simply was always told that as I got into better shape, my heart rate monitor would reflect that by showing me with a lower heart rate for the same exercise that I was doing months earlier. Which was never the case for me. My heart rate never dropped.
I was able to hold in longer and also recover quicker tho. Those were the only two measurables I had.
Thanx for replying.
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