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Are you ready to take your running to the next level? Here running coach Amanda Brooks shares the key to unlocking your full potential with heart rate training.

This comprehensive category dives deep into the science and art of training with heart rate monitors, providing runners with invaluable knowledge and strategies.

Discover how to effectively measure and interpret heart rate data, tailor your workouts to specific heart rate zones, and optimize your training for enhanced endurance and speed.

Heart Rate Training

Frontier X2 Heart Rate Monitor Review: What Makes It Different From Garmin and Polar

We tested the Frontier X2, a premium chest strap with continuous ECG monitoring designed to give athletes a deeper look at heart rate and training data.

Frontier X2 Heart Rate Monitor Review | Next Level Data and Tracking

Frontier X2 HR monitor is so much more than heart rate data, you'll be getting a ton of data and information to inform health and training.

Wahoo TRACKR HR Monitor Review | The Chest Strap that Connects to Everything

We know that chest straps are the gold standard for training by heart rate.  Since HR is a metric I love to use, it was time to checkout the Wahoo…

Running With a High Heart Rate: When To Worry

Although exercise is generally considered good for heart health, running with a high heart rate may signal a problem. What you need to know.

7 Best Heart Rate Monitors for Running

Looking for the best heart rate monitor can feel overwhelming with so many options, so here are the best tried and tested running heart rate monitors right now.

Low Heart Rate Training: MAF Training Results Short Term and Long Term

You've heard of low heart rate, but have you talked to anyone whose done it long enough to report MAF training results? 12 years of results

Zone 5 Heart Rate Training | Stop Skipping It

Zone 5 cardio has some very specific uses and benefits. It's not just for sprinters, it can benefit most runners. Find out how to use it.

Zone 1 Heart Rate Training | You Should be Doing It!

Zone 1 heart rate training often gets overlooked, but has some serious benefits for our health and hour endurance training!

Zone 3 Training: Avoiding the Grey Zone

The “grey zone” and Heart Rate Zone 3 are frequently used running terms, but what do they mean? How can you avoid the grey zone?

How to Calculate Your Maximum Heart Rate For Running

Find out the most accurate way to calculate your maximum heart rate, from different formulas to at home field tests that you can do yourself.

Zone 2 Heart Rate Training Explained | How and Why It Matters

Zone 2 training is an aerobic workout that's part of any training plan to build endurance and reduce the risk of overuse. Learn more to do it right.

Zone 4 Heart Rate Explained | When and How to Use It

What is Zone 4 Heart Rate, when should I use it and what can I use it for? The answers to these questions and more are covered on this page.

Understanding the Maffetone Method | 13 Years Experience

Using heart rate for training doesn’t have to be complex and can indeed help you learn how to truly run EASY on your easy days to improve endurance. Low Heart…

How to Implement Low Heart Rate Training

Tired of feeling tired all the time, but still wanting to keep going with distance running? My guide to implement low heart rate training for base building.

Resting Heart Rate for Runners | Is My HR Too Low?

Learn why endurance athletes have a lower resting heart rate. And find out what's an average resting HR and when to worry it's too low.

Guide to Running Heart Rate Zones + How to Calculate

Here's how to determine your running heart rate zones, along with their benefits, and how to use them to help you produce the best possible training effects.

Heart Rate While Running: What’s Average? How to Use It?

As a runner have you wondered about average heart rate while running? Learn why you should track, the benefits, and training methods you can use.

VO2 Max Chart: What’s a Good VO2 Max and Why it’s Important

VO2 max remains the gold standard for measuring cardiovascular fitness. Here’s what it is, how to use a VO2 Max chart, and also learn what a good VO2 max is.

Low Heart Rate Training | Virtual Run Club

Our Virtual Run Club is exploring all you need to know about Low Heart Rate Training whether your goal is learning how to do easy runs easy enough, increase your…

LHR Training Results: Maffetone Method Half Marathon

I’ve talked a great deal about why Low Heart Rate training has worked so well for my body and how it lead to a 4 minute half marathon PR. But…

Maffetone Marathon Training: Fat Loss and Speed without Fatigue

What if marathon training didn’t leave you feeling like you needed a nap every day of the week? What if long runs didn’t make you so ravenous you cleaned out…

LHR Training Revisited with MAF Method

Last spring I started the low heart rate training method {LHR}, popularized by Phil Maffetone. It’s been buzzed about it for years, but it took Miss Zippy sharing her process…

Polar RC3 integrated GPS watch Review

Runners are not known for being open to change. We find a pair of running shoes that work and head out to buy them in mass, lest they change the…

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Amanda Brooks is a Certified Running Coach, Certified Personal Trainer and long time distance runner with a passion for every facet of running, which leads her to do more reading, research and running than necessary. Find all the tips, tricks and tools you need from this running coach for your best injury free running. Read More…

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