Does any one do max heart rate training anymore? I don't think that the 26 year old Coach realizes there is a difference between 220-26= her max hr and 220-50= mine. I am not sure I would recognize heart palpitations with some of the short interval work we get.
The U of Richmond coach has his swimmers wear HR monitors and uses it all the time in training. In many sets he'll tell the swimmers where their HR should be.
But it is a women's team so they can wear them under their suits to keep them in place. I can't keep one in place, no matter how tight I make it, it falls off on the first push-off.
I've worn them on the bike. Maybe I'd reach 180 on uphill sprints; no way do I reach it in the water. I think I read somewhere that max HR is genetic and that being fit doesn't affect its value or how it declines with age. (Though certainly exercising changes the lactate threshold HR.)
In HS and college I would regularly and easily get above 200 in the pool, now I have a very hard time getting above 170, kind of depressing really.:cane: I've often wondered if this is the reason that young swimmers have a "fifth gear" that I don't seem to have anymore: I am generally much closer to them in practice than in a meet. (Or maybe they are just slackers in practice :))
The U of Richmond coach has his swimmers wear HR monitors and uses it all the time in training. In many sets he'll tell the swimmers where their HR should be.
But it is a women's team so they can wear them under their suits to keep them in place. I can't keep one in place, no matter how tight I make it, it falls off on the first push-off.
I've worn them on the bike. Maybe I'd reach 180 on uphill sprints; no way do I reach it in the water. I think I read somewhere that max HR is genetic and that being fit doesn't affect its value or how it declines with age. (Though certainly exercising changes the lactate threshold HR.)
In HS and college I would regularly and easily get above 200 in the pool, now I have a very hard time getting above 170, kind of depressing really.:cane: I've often wondered if this is the reason that young swimmers have a "fifth gear" that I don't seem to have anymore: I am generally much closer to them in practice than in a meet. (Or maybe they are just slackers in practice :))
