Heart Rate Monitor Book [Paperback]

Sally Edwards (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0963463306 | ISBN-13: 978-0963463302 | Publication Date: September 1993

THE HEART RATE MONITOR BOOK is for anyone who wants to learn about the use of one of the most important pieces of exercise equipment today. Get the information you need to start the fitness program that works! The heart rate monitor has the potential to revolutionize training for health, fitness, and competition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"...You will train more effectively with a heart rate monitor, getting stronger and faster in less workout time." -- Mark Allen, Four-time Ironman Champion

"Consistent, daily exercise must become a way of life, and to do it sensibly you need a lot of help..." -- Lauren Bergen, from 280 lbs. to a size 12

"The heart rate monitor has the potential to revolutionize training for health, fitness, and competition..." -- Massimo Testa, M.D.- physician to Motorola Cycling Team

Product Details

• Paperback: 141 pages
• Publisher: Polar Electroinc (September 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963463306
• ISBN-13: 978-0963463302
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,387,008 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Sally Edwards, MA, MBA, Athlete, Author, Speaker, Entreprenuer

Sally is one of America 's leading experts in business, exercise science, and lifestyle living. She created the Heart Zones Training proprietary and branded training system. She is the National Spokeswoman for the Trek Women's Triathlon Series. Sally has completed over 130 all-women's triathlons during the past 20 years volunteering to finish most as the "final finisher" so that no other woman has to finish last.

Sally is a best-selling author with more than 20 books and 500 articles on health and fitness including the popular book Heart Rate Monitor Guidebook and The Complete Book of Triathlons. This professional triathlete is a 16-time Ironman finisher, a member of the Triathlon Hall of Fame, and past winner of the ultra-marathon, he hundred mile Western States Endurance Run.

She is the founder of a half-dozen businesses. She founded and franchised America's largest chain of retail sports shops, FLEET FEET Sports. Sally is a sought after professional speaker delivering dozens of speeches and performances each year. Today, she uses her passion for getting America fit to lead The Sally Edwards Company, a media company dedicated to uncommonly vibrant lifestyles, and Heart Zones USA , an international training, education, and coaching company. She is an example of what she teaches - living an active healthy lifestyle in Sacramento, California.


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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

89 of 94 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars only for beginners, June 30, 1998

By 

Kevan T. O. Meara "computer jock" (LA, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Heart Rate Monitor Book (Paperback)

This book offers very little hard data for anyone serious about training. It's OK for someone that knows little and is just getting started, but how many people spend $100 for a HR monitor and the book and aren't serious? It offers no workout training schedules, no max heart rate testing, and no sport specific information. It doesn't even use resting heart rate to calculate training zones. I got the feeling that most case studies were on friends and neighbors. No research articles are cited. No alternate viewponts were offered. Even simple concepts such as taking your resting heart rate in the morning are not elaborated on (HOW do you take it in the morning - do you wear your HR monitor all night? Manually count it? It's not as simple as it seems.)

It's very friendly and folksey, and would be an OK book to give to your sedendary mother, but isn't for the more serious minded exercizer.

49 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I got the book, applied what I read and lost 41 pounds., April 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Heart Rate Monitor Book (Paperback)

I am not a world class athlete nor do I have any ambitions of being one. I wouldn't consider myself a beginner though either. I was a three sport varsity athlete in college but ten years after graduation I found myself thrity five pounds heavier and not feeling very good about myself.

I decided I wanted to lose weight so I began working out very hard -- you know, the no pain, no gain school of thought popular in my college days. Two months later I had a pulled hamstring, a sore groin, was fatiqued every day after a workout and didn't shed a pound.

Out of shear frustration, I bought a heart rate monitor because I really wanted to track my workouts better. I bought the book too because of the catchy title (ha ha). But, sincerely, I began to workout in the fat burning zone described in the book and in three months I went from 204 to 163 and really felt great. Six months later, I am maintaining 170 lbs mostly by remaining disciplined to my workouts and the concepts I learned in the Heart Rate Monitor Book.

If you're looking to get in shape to climb Mt. Everest, this book is not for you. But if you are trying to make sense of the whole fitness/heart rate puzzle, then this book might be a good place to start. If not, you're only out ten bucks so the trade off of upside potential is almost unlimited.