To all my fellow wrestlers out there (seems like there are a ton doing endurance sports nowadays), do you find that your heart rate while training is much higher than others you know? A few of my friends around the same age have significantly lower training heart rates than I do despite being the same age. I find it very difficult to keep my heart rate down even when I don’t think I’m going very hard, and I have a feeling it’s attributed to all of the anaerobic work I did for the 15 years I was wrestling. Thoughts?
As a former wrestler as well I’d have to agree with this. However, once I hit the middle to end of the season I’ve usually got my heart rate lowered significantly. It does seem to take me longer to train my heart rate and even when I’m in peak condition my heart rate still seems to spike at times that it shouldn’t I’ve never attributed this to wrestling before but I guess that makes a lot of sense. I’ve trained many more years for anaerobic wrestling than i have to endurance racing. hopefully more long aerobic training will help that.
To all my fellow wrestlers out there (seems like there are a ton doing endurance sports nowadays), do you find that your heart rate while training is much higher than others you know? A few of my friends around the same age have significantly lower training heart rates than I do despite being the same age. I find it very difficult to keep my heart rate down even when I don’t think I’m going very hard, and I have a feeling it’s attributed to all of the anaerobic work I did for the 15 years I was wrestling. Thoughts?
I think that is an unlikely explanation.
Read this: http://prevost-training.blogspot.com/...rate-formula-is.html
Don’t worry about the heart rate number. It varies.
I don’t currently train based on HR, I prefer to go based on feel (for now anyway). This is quite interesting though and makes me wonder …
I also wonder if part of the reason is due to the mentality of wrestlers to push beyond what they probably should so they have a higher threshold/tolerance (i.e. our 80% is probably harder than the 80% of a non-wrestler with an equal physical fitness).
It does make me want to start monitoring and comparing my heart rate now.
Are you using lube on your hr strap? A week ago it reported my HR when running at a 12 minute pace as 170. After lube it went down to like 110. Worth a shot…
Make sure you use your real HR max though, not 220 - age.
Are you using lube on your hr strap? A week ago it reported my HR when running at a 12 minute pace as 170. After lube it went down to like 110. Worth a shot…
Make sure you use your real HR max though, not 220 - age.
No lube, but my HR is pretty consistent from run-to-run. I get jumpy numbers for the first 5 mins or so until I start sweating and then it levels out.
Okay cool. My jumpy numbers were for like 20 mins.