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.
It was old school measurement and we routinely had push sets to see how high we could get the heart rate up to, we did have to cool down and recover to 120 bpm before we could start the next one.
I think we are swimming a lot more reduced interval to failure type swims and not getting sufficient recovery to drop back into an aerobic range of training. There was probably a point to long slow distance in the first part of the training season to build up the base. I would like to burn some fat rather than work out in the anaerobic zone all the time.
It was old school measurement and we routinely had push sets to see how high we could get the heart rate up to, we did have to cool down and recover to 120 bpm before we could start the next one.
I think we are swimming a lot more reduced interval to failure type swims and not getting sufficient recovery to drop back into an aerobic range of training. There was probably a point to long slow distance in the first part of the training season to build up the base. I would like to burn some fat rather than work out in the anaerobic zone all the time.
