Hello, I’m pretty new to training with heart rate and I’m a little confused. My max heart rate is about 180. Athletica has my critical heart rate at 168.
A lot of my plan is aerobic development where it wants me to stay in zone two. It says the top of zone two is 139 BPM.
In the Athletica methodology and training terminology PDF there is a graphic that says the top of zone two is 82% of max heart rate.
Athletica is using 82% of critical heart rate to define this, not Max heart rate. Is that right?
82% of 180 is 148, not 139.
168 is definitely not my max heart rate. I got higher than that doing three minute intervals the other day.
I just wanna make sure I’m getting The most effective training in my limited time…
Your CHR should represents more or less your FTHR, that is the average HR you measure during a 1h TT workout ( 1h steady pace/power best effort) multiplied by 0.95.
If that’s too much, you can you approximate it by doing a 20min TT instead of a full hour.
For sure your CHR/FTHR will be lower than you max HR over the same interval.
Training zones represent a range of that CHR/FTHR value.
Hi @aaikns … I checked your sessions and you have been training appropriately. Its not an exact science and these are bands you should be aiming for. The zone 2 or MAF pace should feel ‘steady’ and you should be able to talk full sentences. Here’s our latest on how things are working. Here’s some literature if you want to go deeper.
