Precision Heart Rate Training

by Geroge H. Sage

Over the past 20 years, heart rate monitors (HRMs) have gained widespread popularity among fitness enthusiasts and elite athletes. These wireless devices monitor the body's levels of cardiovascular and physiological stress during exercise, so users can adjust their training intensity for the safest, most effective workouts. While more people are buying HRMs, few know how to maximize their use. Precision Heart Rate Training is the best, most complete...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880117702
• ISBN13: 9780880117708
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The book that finally got me running successfully.

I do inline skating, skiing, and weight training, but every time I tried to take up running, I would hit a wall. I just couldn't run for long sessions, and after a few I would hurt something and give up. Then I read about Ed Burke in Outside. This book, along with Burke's "Optimal Muscle Recovery" (I tore an Achilles tendon and developed plantar fascitis from skating and skiing) and "Stretching" finally got me to understand that I wasn't building the base I needed in order to run better. By following the training programs in this book, I've greatly increased my capacity without injury, and am slowly seeing my speed increase. Also liked this book because it took a different approach for each covered sport, and it treated inline skating with the respect it deserves as an endurance activity.

This is an excellent guide!

The reviews below must have been written by a "competitor" of Polar. They are a clear attack on the company. Not the book. Ed Burke is a real "hands-on" exercise physiologist. The reviewer is a business person not a book reviewer!

This book answers your questions!

As a traumatologist and interested in sports medicine I can tell you: this is the best book to answer your questions. It is comprehensive and gives a lot of tips that you can apply the training theory to your daily practice.

This book answers your questions

Being a traumatologist and involved with questions of sports medicine, I found most of my questions answered in this book in a very comprehensive and founded manner. It's the comprehensive manual for any user of a Heart Rate Monitor. It's really worth 5 stars.

This is a practical book with scientific sense.

The author does a service to those wanting to improve fitness quantitively. One doesn't have to compete with others to enjoy better results.