Precision Heart Rate Training (Paperback)

~ Edmund R. Burke (Editor) "All athletes, from beginners to Olympians, can benefit from using a heart rate monitor in training and competition..." (more)
Key Phrases: cardiovascular conditioning classes, training heart rate range, circuit strength training, Adjusting Intensity, Dumbbell Quadriceps, Dumbbell Upper (more...)

Editorial Reviews

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"""Heart rate training for me has made the difference between being overtrained and being ready to run on race day. My heart rate monitor helps me gauge my training intensity, making sure I'm going hard on hard days and easy on recovery or long days. It's been the key addition to my training program that I wish I'd had in the early days of my career."""
Steve Scott
World-Class Miler
"""In my nine years of training and racing with a heart rate monitor, I have come to realize the importance of maintaining a precise level of intensity in my workouts. The heart rate monitor is the only way that I can gauge that intensity and learn more about my body during exercise. I owe my racing success to training at the right intensity level and to my heart rate monitor."""
Alison Sydor
Volvo/Cannondale Team
World Champion Mountain Bike Racer
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""Heart rate training for me has made the difference between being overtrained and being ready to run on race day. My heart rate monitor helps me gauge my training intensity, making sure I'm going hard on hard days and easy on recovery or long days. It's been the key addition to my training program that I wish I'd had in the early days of my career.""
Steve Scott
World-Class Miler

""In my nine years of training and racing with a heart rate monitor, I have come to realize the importance of maintaining a precise level of intensity in my workouts. The heart rate monitor is the only way that I can gauge that intensity and learn more about my body during exercise. I owe my racing success to training at the right intensity level and to my heart rate monitor.""
Alison Sydor
Volvo/Cannondale Team
World Champion Mountain Bike Racer

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Human Kinetics; 1 edition (March 11, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0880117702
• ISBN-13: 978-0880117708
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #107,361 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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57 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Informative, detailed and chock full of information, June 8, 2000

By	Todd Sauder (Abbotsford, BC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Given some of the less-than-favourable reviews here I thought I was going to find an average, if not hum-drum book. I was very pleasantly surprised! This is a great book, very detailed with good descriptions of the Karvonon method of calculating HRR (Heart Rate Reserve) and its correlation to VO2 Max and Net VO2 and how to use this information to determine appropriate training zones. It had some good sections on various other fitness activities (such as cycling, swimming and walking) and serves as a good resource for anyone wanting to get fit faster while lowering your chances of injury or overtrainig.

I think if you combined this book with "Heart Rate Monitor Training for the Compleat Idiot" you'd posses all the information you'd ever need to train to maximum effectiveness with your heart rate monitor.

31 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The book had some good information, May 28, 2001

By A Customer

I had bought the book to help me with Mtn. bike training and my son with running. The book didn't provide information for mtn. biking though it did have a section on road biking. The running chapter seemed incomplete. The major table that was supposed to explain the heart rate targets was not explained fully. Also, oddly, there is a quote in there that is identical in two chapters but attritubted to two different people!

In summary, I was disappointed with the book but it may be helpful to someone else.

26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The book that finally got me running successfully., September 4, 2001

By	Carl Johnson "living the non-urban life" (Rensselaer, NY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I do inline skating, skiing, and weight training, but every time I tried to take up running, I would hit a wall. I just couldn't run for long sessions, and after a few I would hurt something and give up. Then I read about Ed Burke in Outside. This book, along with Burke's "Optimal Muscle Recovery" (I tore an Achilles tendon and developed plantar fascitis from skating and skiing) and "Stretching" finally got me to understand that I wasn't building the base I needed in order to run better. By following the training programs in this book, I've greatly increased my capacity without injury, and am slowly seeing my speed increase. Also liked this book because it took a different approach for each covered sport, and it treated inline skating with the respect it deserves as an endurance activity.