trail wrote:
mathematics wrote:
-Warm up 10-15 min easy
-3 min 150bpm
-3 min 160bpm
-1 min 170bpm
I do it slightly differently using power set points instead of HR. And then watching how my HR responds to the different power outputs. If HR is near threshold when I'm "Zone 2," that's usually not a good thing. Unless it's just because I'm all adrenalined-up before a race.
Garmin is trying to do this in an automated way, e.g. 5-6 minutes into a workout it'll pop up a notice saying what your "condition" looks like.
But I trust the manual method more at this point. Automated is nice, but the Garmin method is too much of a black box and too vague.
Yep, that actual protocol is less important than doing it consistently the same so you know it's apples to apples.
The other good thing about looking at the numbers yourself instead of Garmin doing it is that you learn little bits about yourself along the way.