So I just started working with a new coach and he works with E1, E2, E2.2, E3 and E4. Normally I would ask him, but he’s on his way to Madeira with the Nat Team so he isn’t availible until tommorow morning/noon, and I don’t want to miss practice.
Basically does anyone else work with these zones? How do I calculate them? From what I remember he said E1 is basically warm-up, E3 is LT, and E4 is above LT. The thing is most of my workouts are in E2-E2.2, and I don’t know what those are (AeT probably, but I’m not sure).
My coach works with the same classifications. Most of my work leading up to HI used E1 with E2a and E2b. There was a little E3 thrown in amongst it. Although it seemed very easy most of the time the proof was in the pudding as it resulted in a 4:32 which was a huge PB. E2b seemed to be close to HI race pace. E2a was more aerobic than the E1 recovery.
Wasn’t a Sydney based coach by any chance!
So how do you calc E1, E2a, and E2b?
let your coach do the calculating or just ask him for the %'s.
Yeah the problem is I can’t reach him right now because he’s in Madeira.
Sorry I didn’t reply earlier…
I don’t think that this is the exact way it’s calculated, because I believe it takes into account lactate levels etc in addition to HR and I don’t have these (lactate) here, but I did a quick check to see how they (HR’s) stacked up against the tested max HR value for both running and cycling tests I did. Here’s what it approximated to…
E1 = 65-72%Max
E2 = 72-79%Max
E2b = 79-85%Max
E3 = 85-90%Max
AT = 90-93%Max
AT+ >93%Max
Again this may be a little out but that’s what mine both worked out to be.
May be a good start point until your coach gets back.