Can anyone explain this? I am staying in the HR zones as told in workout plan (upper zone 2/7) but then in my analysis I’m spending a lot of time of zone 3/5 and missing the goal. I’m confused as to why there are sometimes 5 zones and other times 7 and why there doesn’t seem to be consistency between the pre/post zone goals.
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I have 7 pace zones and 5 HR zones. Is this the same for you?
@hhhippo
It’s possible that, if your target for a certain training block is Power/Pace, and you hit it absolutely perfectly, that you still miss your HR-Zones.
Athletica normally detects this after a while and gives you a suggestion that one or more of your HR-Zones will bei adjusted to reflect your body’s “reaction” to the external metric (Power/Pace).
In addion - why is there a different number of zones:
Zones Z1 - Z5 in HR do match Zones Z1 - Z5 in Power, which means that when training in Power Zone Z5 with (e.g. in my case) between 226 and 266 Watts, I will land in the highes HR Zone Z5 after a certain time as well.
You should not reach more than your max HR - which is the upper border of HR Z5 (=VO2 max).
But in some trainings you should definitely output more than 266 Watts - so there is an additional Zone 6 HIIT for the intervals (which you normally should not sustain longer than 2-3 Minutes) and an additional Zone 7 for Sprints for the 10 to 60 Seconds time slot.
I think this explains the different numbers of zones…..
