Re: RC: Heart Rates

["Truman Prevatt, PhD" <tprevatt@mindspring.com>]

I play it by ear - starting off with short stretches and using recovery as a
guide. My rule of thumb is after I come to a walk I'd like to see the heart rate
drop to about 90 in 3 or 4 minutes. When she could do that I extended the
distance of the uphill gallops. When the recoveries were there at that distance,
I exended the distance.

I found three things by doing this:
a) it was very hard to get the heart rate much above 180 after about 2 months of
this,
b) her ability to dissipate heat was really improved,
c) her recoveries improved.

T

Jeanne Slominski wrote:

> From: "Truman Prevatt, PhD" <tprevatt@mindspring.com>
> Cc: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 8:32 AM
>
> > I started to train once a week in the FL sand hills - hills
> > with deep sand footing. Galloping up the hills in deep sand - pushing the
> > heart rate up heart rate (180 to 200 bpm) for sretches of a mile or so
> > really seemed to have a positive impact on her ability to cool.
> >
> > Truman
>
> Any thoughts as to how long one should stay at these higher HR levels for
> optimum conditioning? Should it be a distance measure as opposed to a time
> measure?
>
> I condition in deep sand as well as on some long hills. Hills are 1.5 to 4.1
> miles long.
>
> Jeanne