Quality Training Part 2 : Determine Your Training Zone

In this posting i will continue to write about how to have Quality training for a HIM. The article Jeff Devlin wrote in his website, http://www.jeffdevlin.com/articles/halfiman.php, on Half-Ironman Training was anchored on the base priciple of heart rate training. Again to make things simpler i have done up the below chart to help you determine your training zones, which you will heavly use as a guideline for all your sessions except swim sessions that uses RPE.

Triathletes have limited time to train multiple disciplines in any given week compared to a dedicated runner, swimmer or cyclist. Hence, there is a need to ensure that each and every sessions we have are optimised and could prepare use better for each upcoming event. Of course, for me i'm more interested in the variety this sports could provide me and ultimately some fun with friends.

There are 3 simple steps necessary to find out the zones you should train in so that you spend minimal time to reap maximal results - that's Quality training! The below has been done using my own personal heart rate baselines as an example. Simple formulaes have been created in an excel format, so if you like to have them do drop me an email.

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