Heart Rate Training: Customize Your Training Based on Individual Data and Goals Second Edition

If you are serious about fitness, health, and performance, then Heart Rate Training, Second
Edition, is for you. With a myriad of affordable smartphone apps and wearable devices
enabling you to track your body’s response to activity, it’s never been easier to use heart rate
monitoring to customize your training—and this guide will show you how!
In Heart Rate Training, Second Edition, authors Roy Benson and Declan Connolly combine
decades of coaching experience, scientific research, and practical knowledge to help you
understand the best way to make your heart rate monitor work for you. They will show you
how to get reliable data from your device, dispel myths surrounding heart rate monitors, and
make it easy for you to calculate your ideal target heart rate. Then you’ll learn how to
customize your training by varying the intensity, duration, frequency, and mode of your
exercise sessions as you work toward improving endurance, stamina, economy, and speed.
Information on heart rate variability (HRV) training further prepares you to individualize your
training plan based on your personal goals. As a bonus, sample exercise programs will guide
you in manipulating training components to design long-term training plans for walking,
running, cycling, swimming, triathlons, rowing, cross-country skiing, and team sports.
When you are ready to take training and performance to the next level, turn to Heart Rate
Training, and achieve your personal best