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Uncover the secrets to maximizing your running performance while minimizing stress on your body through the power of low heart rate training with running coach Amanda Brooks.

Learn how to optimize your training intensity, improve recovery, and prevent overtraining by harnessing the benefits of low heart rate training.

This process works for both new and long term runners, low heart rate training is your gateway to efficient, injury-free running success.

Low Heart Rate Training

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 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!

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.

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.

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…

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Training Styles

Low Heart Rate Training
Run/Walk Method
Beginner Trail Running Guide
Runner Strength Training Plans
Couch to 5K Training Plan

Half Marathon

Couch to Half Marathon Training
First Half Marathon Tips
Half Marathon Fueling Strategy
Sub Two Hour Half Marathon Training Plan
Virtual Run Club – Team Support

Marathon

Couch to Marathon Training Plan
4 Hour Marathon Training Plan
Marathon Pacing Strategy
Must Have Marathon Gear
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About Amanda Brooks

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…

Website written, managed and maintained by Amanda Brooks, a certified running coach and personal trainer. Any advice should be taken as general information and not a personalized plan. All opinions, tips and reviews are based upon her personal life experience and the experiences of those she has coached. View our full privacy and review policy. No AI.

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