| Total Heart Rate Training: Customize and Maximize Your Workout Using a Heart Rate Monitor Contributor(s): Friel, Joe (Author) |
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ISBN: 1569755620 ISBN-13: 9781569755624 Publisher: Bookpack Inc OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2006 Annotation: "Total Heart Rate Training" shows anyone participating in aerobic sports, from novice to expert, how to increase the effectiveness of his or her workout. It's like having a personal trainer guide the reader step-by-step during exercise. By following the author's carefully constructed program and utilizing a heart rate monitor, readers can coach themselves -- knowing when to push harder and when to back off. This guide teaches readers how to use the latest tools, including training analysis software and new high-tech intensity measuring devices, for precise training that practically guarantees success while minimizing the chance of injury. The author also makes it easy to use new gizmos such as power meters and GPS units that allow readers to compare the body's input, as measured by heart rate, with output. Section for novices show how to use a heart rate monitor for the first time while chapters aimed at experienced athletes describe how to gain that extra competitive edge thanks to heart rate training. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Health & Fitness | Exercise - General - Health & Fitness | Diseases - Heart - Sports & Recreation | Training |
| Dewey: 612.171 |
| LCCN: 2006903820 |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 7.58" W x 9.16" (0.81 lbs) 144 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Health & Fitness |
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| Publisher Description: TRAIN SMARTER WITH THE NEWEST HIGH-TECH HEART RATE MONITORS Whether you are just starting a fitness program or are an experienced athlete, you can greatly benefit from paying attention to your heart rate during exercise. Heart rate serves as a window into the body, giving you minute-to-minute feedback on your physical condition based on all the factors affecting it--exercise intensity, diet, temperature, humidity, altitude, fatigue, and more. Total Heart Rate Training explains: -Heart function during exercise -How heart rate monitors work -Simple ways to use a heart rate monitor -Advanced heart rate training techniques With Total Heart Rate Training, you can design a personalized program that practically guarantees you'll achieve your fitness goals. You'll be able to determine the precise and optimal heart rate for each day's workout by using your heart rate monitor to keep you on target. It's like having a personal trainer telling you when to go harder and when to back off. This book also shows how powermeters and accelerometers enable you to compare your body's input, as measured by heart rate, with its output-power or pace. It's a combination that allows you to train at your peak for that competitive edge. |