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High Performance Heart: Effective Training with the HRM for Health, Fitness and Competition

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I liked the presentation of the beef of Maffetone's information, although he seems to skip around a great deal with many differing opinions. His list of followers is indeed impressive, but I feel this is a great resource for nuggets of training information. His adherence to listening to your body is admirable, but I was left wanting for more information and detail. Excellent resource for the basics of a healthy heart rate monitor based training regimen.

A friend gave me this after I was in the hospital for heart disease. Within a week I bought a heart rate monitor and began exercising this way. Four years later, I am still exercising regularly, and my heart is fully recovered. This approach makes exercise easy! The book is especially good because it tells how to really figure your target heart rate, and it tells you how and why you must warm up and cool down.

Not a bad book, but nothing spectacular either. Use the MAF formula (180-age pluses for other factors) and exercise with a HR below that. Okay, that is the summary of the book. If you are injured and tired all the time, this book is for you. If you are fast and can't seem to go longer distances this book is for you. If you are slow (sorry exercising at easier intensities) and want to be fast, this won't work.

This book doesn't hold a candle to Heart Monitor Training For the Compleat Idiot. If you're 50, sedentary and haven't worked out in 20 years, this book will be fine for the first 4 or 5 months.