I exercise every day and use the "hard - easy" concept of Dr. Gabe
Mirkin. On hard days I go up to 85 - 90 percent - it feels hard and I
have to push myself. After each hard day I do an easy day. Hard days
- about 10 minute miles, easy days 12 minute to 13 minute miles. Avg
miles - 9. Dr. Mirkin suggests that you need to let your body recover
after a hard day, and you need to do easy days until you are
recovered. Re: wind sprints - you don't need anerobic training - going
over your max. Interval training, tho, has benefits. For excellent
fitness advice check out his website www.drmirkin.com
Owen Lowe <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
Quoted message said:Hi all. This message will be posted to the fitness group(s) as well -
just a heads up in case if you frequent them too. (Wouldn't want you
thinking you experienced a deja vu...)My cardiologist gave me the go ahead to exercise in the 60-85% of my max
heart rate. He also said it wouldn't matter if I went over because the
only thing it would do is cause increased fatigue.Is there any benefit to varying the rate % on different days? For
example, Monday could be a 65% day, Wednesday an 85%-er, Friday a 75%
day, etc. Or is it most conditioning and beneficial to work at the 85%
if that's comfortable and feels good? (Which it does.)Secondly, is there any cardio benefit to wind sprint type segments
wherein the rate exceeds the 85% figure?Lastly, I believe I read somewhere that a stress-ECHO can provide a more
true (individualized) max heart rate. Is this true and would the info be
available from just the standard testing or would some portion of the
test need to be run especially for this info?Thanks muchly.