Calculating a number for the intensity of a workout, how?
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I am writing my workouts in excel.
How do I calculate a number for the intensity of a swimming workout? Is there a standard way of doing it? I'm using zone 1 to 5, where 1 is recovery and 5 is racepace. Additionally I have three more zones that are lactate tolerance (zone 6), lactate production (zone 7) and power (zone 8). How do I calculate all theese zones and distance into one number, that gives an adequate impression on the intensity of the workout?
Well, of course this is what Socrates was talking about. The ancient Greeks were big into the sport. If the etymology of the word itself is not enough, consider: you don't think that a measly little marathon, all by itself, would have taken out Pheidippides, do you? An Iron Man, on the other hand...especially with the crap bikes they had in those days...
I am pretty sure those bikes still had square wheels. Or maybe isosceles triangular ones.
It was a pretty good workout, though, from what I have managed to gather from my readings of Pliny the Elder.
Well, of course this is what Socrates was talking about. The ancient Greeks were big into the sport. If the etymology of the word itself is not enough, consider: you don't think that a measly little marathon, all by itself, would have taken out Pheidippides, do you? An Iron Man, on the other hand...especially with the crap bikes they had in those days...
I am pretty sure those bikes still had square wheels. Or maybe isosceles triangular ones.
It was a pretty good workout, though, from what I have managed to gather from my readings of Pliny the Elder.
