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RE: [RC] HRM's and Increasing Intensity - Mike SofenNo, it gives you the HR unambiguously. It doesn't tell you if you've pushed the soft tissues past the limit (but they haven't started to hurt yet), and it doesn't tell you how the horse FEELS, unless one of his feelings is pain. Heidi << Well, I'm riding a mare and she definitely TELLS me how she's feeling. :-) I stand corrected, your point is valid. Yet, once again, in the context of intensity training sessions, the soft tissues shouldn't be an issue. As I stated earlier, this is happening after all of the base conditioning has been completed. So in this context, the HRM IS telling me pretty clearly the state of their fatigue. When I do distance running training, at the end of a run my legs will feel very tired, although my HR is still in the normal zone, so your comments about HR not necessarily being an indicator of fatigue are right on the money. But when I do interval or sprint training, it is my HR (or lack of recovery) that dominates my workout, because at a certain point, I can't recover to my baseline within a time window that I have set, and that means the workout is over, regardless of how good my legs feel. Intensity training IS quite different than other training protocols. I am an advocate for being careful here, since, as you say, the horse can't tell us directly how they're doing. Mike =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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