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[RC] HRs - Ridecamp GuestPlease Reply to: ti tivers@xxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ========================================== HI :-) Can anyone explain to me or point me in the right direction (i.e. a website or books with the info) how to train and read the heart rates with a heart monitor? What I want to know is how to figure out the optimal hr's to be training at, the "target "zone we want to be in. And when does my horse pass over into the anaerobic threshold? Thanks in advance!! Chrystal :-)> Anaerobic threshold is not a concern unless you're sprinting hills. Even then, work at the threshold is beneficial for cardiovascular development. Occurs somewhere around 180 and up depending on the fitness of the horse. Most of your training should center around sustained HRs, starting in the low 120s and eventually into the 140s and 150s. You have to approach this incrementally on a familiar, kind surface. Same "track" every time. Short hill sprints where HRs exceed 200 are ok, as long as you've gradually worked up to that kind of intensity, and the concern there is more for rapidly rising body temp rather than anything else. If you are traveling at a steady rate of speed, with a steady state HR, at some point you'll get a HR "drift" upward--time to take a break at that point, or call it a day. Remember, always, that this week's horse can do just a little more than it did last week, either in terms of distance or intensity--never increase both at the same time. It takes months and years of progressively loaded to bring a horse fit for endurance--a very boring, slogging process. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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