http://fitnessintuition.com/2008/05/20/heart-zones/ The wisdom of the heart in exercise and sports training Sat, 10 Mar 2012 04:59:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://fitnessintuition.com/2008/05/20/heart-zones/comment-page-1/#comment-106 runbei Fri, 23 May 2008 18:48:44 +0000 http://fitnessintuition.com/?p=82#comment-106 Alan - I got the idea from a study that looked at various methods for shortening the recovery time after hard intervals/repeats, based on how fast heart rate fell. As I remember, they compared heart-rate drop rate with slow jogging, walking, and standing still and bending over. Bending over was fastest - though HR does come back up when you begin walking/jogging, it doesn't rise "all the way" to the previous rate (of course, time has elapsed). Anyway... I was playing around, seeing if I'd actually <feel> better when my heart rate dropped, and if I could resume hard running quicker if I used the bend-over method. But I got interested in the different feeling when my HR went under 80%, and didn't give any more attention to recovery rate. - George</feel> Alan – I got the idea from a study that looked at various methods for shortening the recovery time after hard intervals/repeats, based on how fast heart rate fell. As I remember, they compared heart-rate drop rate with slow jogging, walking, and standing still and bending over. Bending over was fastest – though HR does come back up when you begin walking/jogging, it doesn’t rise “all the way” to the previous rate (of course, time has elapsed). Anyway… I was playing around, seeing if I’d actually better when my heart rate dropped, and if I could resume hard running quicker if I used the bend-over method. But I got interested in the different feeling when my HR went under 80%, and didn’t give any more attention to recovery rate. – George

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