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?
.Are you, by any chance, of the triathletic persuasion? It does seem to me that that sport attracts a certain mentality wherein the unexamined life truly is worthless
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...
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.
I experience the risk of loosing my form when entering my discomfort zone, which by the way takes a great deal of time and concentration to fix. Efficiency, control, and injury prevention are on my mind and hope to push the intensity level, yet maintain form, with time.
Think of your esophagus as a thermometer, and your lunch as the mercury.
The higher the mercury rises, the more intense your workout.
The esophageal sphincter represents the safe limits of intensity.
If the mercury manages to exceed this, you are trying too hard.
I am curious about your desire to quantify intensity with the detail of a physiologist studying laboratory rats subjected to various variable training parameters.
Are you, by any chance, of the triathletic persuasion? It does seem to me that that sport attracts a certain mentality wherein the unexamined life truly is worthless, hence the more heart rate monitors, lactate-measuring muscle biopsies, perhaps even digital rectal thermometers and other wearable probes the better.
In total agreement with you Jimby! :rofl:
When I was an age grouper I let the mercury rise too high at least once a month. I've grown up now, and have no risk of this ever happening again.
In total agreement with you Jimby! :rofl:
When I was an age grouper I let the mercury rise too high at least once a month. I've grown up now, and have no risk of this ever happening again.
I started swimming distance events again once I realized that I don't have to do that anymore. My 1650's didn't usually result in actual vomit when I was younger, but I would push so hard that I was always on the brink.
