As you may know Jim is completing a year Coaching Certification with OPEX. Part of this training is understanding in better detail the difference between Training, Testing and Competing. If you been with us a while you’ve done workouts that were programmed at a Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE). This is a measure of how much intensity you’re bringing to the work piece, and this is pretty hard to understand.
A proven way to assure people work at the prescribed RPE is to use a Heart Rate Monitor (HRM). Your heart rate is specific to you and is an accurate to your exertion/intensity—heart problems like erratic heart beats aside, it’s still a good individual tool.
We’ve been experimenting with Heart Rate Monitors (HRM) in the gym, displaying the heart rate on the big TV. There have been some issues with the system we’re using but we’ve got it pretty well understood we are ready to bring it in to gym.
(The new system will display your heart rate in a color coded format so you can adjust your intensity as needed).
With HRM system we have we can display your heart rate/intensity while you’re training so you can better regulate your workout. It will allow us to program workouts at a specific HR % as well as give you the choice to dial up or down your intensity. It will also give the coaches a better idea of where you are intensity wise during a workout so they can help you scale it up or down.
There a number of advantages to training with an HRM:
- The HRM allows us to program a specific zone for your training. For instance, if we’re doing a Fran training, we can specify a heart rate for it and monitor what this does to your time. The next time this comes up we can suggest a new HR and measure the result.
- You can do a workout with a specific heart rate to get the best response for a desired outcome like burning fat or increasing Cardio/Respiratory endurance.
- We can program rest based on recovery not a guess at how much time you should take.
- You can “see” the effects of going out too fast on a workout, learn to pace yourself better.
- Your heart rate is a personal indicator of how intense the workout and your effort is.
- It can indicate how your recovery is if you’re training a lot. It can warn of over training.
- We can optimize our Personal Training to the person.
- It can be used to help us understand the benefits of proper technique. What happens to your HR when you kip efficiently vs twerking under the bar?
- It can be an early warning—if things are really skewed—to possible injury. (Lack of recovery or elevated HR is a good signal of pending injury.)
- It provides a potential tool for the coaches to better scale a workout for you. ( Currenly we can easily scale intensity as weight used and volume reps/sets, with the HRM we can also scale the HR zone.)
- A huge indicator of increasing fitness is the ability to recover from workout stress.
- It will prove that weight lifting is our Cardio! ok that’s just my bias.
- As you may know Jim is completing a year Coaching Certification with OPEX—it’s only a year because that’s how long it’s taking him. Part of this training is understanding in better detail the difference between Training, Testing and Competing. If you been with us a while you’ve done workouts that were programmed at a Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE). This is a measure of how much intensity you’re bringing to the work piece, and this is pretty hard to understand.A proven way to assure people work at the prescribed RPE is to use a Heart Rate Monitor (HRM). Your heart rate is specific to you and is an accurate to your exertion/intensity—heart problems like erratic heart beats aside, it’s still a good individual tool.We’ve been experimenting with Heart Rate Monitors (HRM) in the gym, displaying the heart rate on the big TV. There have been some issues with the system we’re using but we’ve got it pretty well understood we are ready to bring it in to gym.With HRM system we have we can display your heart rate/intensity while you’re training so you can better regulate your workout. It will allow us to program workouts at a specific HR % as well as give you the choice to dial up or down your intensity. It will also give the coaches a better idea of where you are intensity wise during a workout so they can help you scale it up or down.There a number of advantages to training with an HRM:
- The HRM allows us to program a specific zone for your training. For instance, if we’re doing a Fran training, we can specify a heart rate for it and monitor what this does to your time. The next time this comes up we can suggest a new HR and measure the result.
- You can do a workout with a specific heart rate to get the best response for a desired outcome like burning fat or increasing Cardio/Respiratory endurance.
- We can program rest based on recovery not a guess at how much time you should take.
- You can “see” the effects of going out too fast on a workout, learn to pace yourself better.
- Your heart rate is a personal indicator of how intense the workout and your effort is.
- It can indicate how your recovery is if you’re training a lot. It can warn of over training.
- We can optimize our Personal Training to the person.
- It can be used to help us understand the benefits of proper technique. What happens to your HR when you kip efficiently vs twerking under the bar?
- It can be an early warning—if things are really skewed—to possible injury.
- It provides a potential tool for the coaches to better scale a workout for you.
- It will prove that weight lifting is our Cardio! ok that’s just my bias.
- It is another indicator of fitness as an ability to recover from workout stress.
- We’ll know if Jim really is heart-less. Or will he just claim an HRM malfunction?
We’ll be using HRMs in some of our classes; FasciAgility/OnRamp as part of the program to better scale for new people. The Tuesday/Thursday and some Saturday classes will use them if the programming makes use of them.
We’ll let you know when the workout has a heart rate associated with it by specifying it in the program. We’ll set everyone up with a temporary account on the system when you register for one of the classes that is using HR in the workout.
Some people may not want their heart rate displayed to everyone else, no problem you can opt out. Or you can use an app to record your results privately—you won’t be able to “see” what your heart is doing real time unless you look at your phone, not recommended.
We’re still playing with the app that’s used in the gym and will be looking at how best to correlate the data we collect for you and feed that into group programming, but we will.
We have a few “loaner” HRMs but will require you buy a strap—they get pretty gross when we sweaty guys use them. The HRM we’re using is the Polar H7, you can purchase them on Amazon ($50) or Best Buy (they qualify for Best Buy’s price match). You can purchase a strap from us or at the above locations ($15 from us).
We’ll be using HRMs in some of our classes; FasciAgility/OnRamp as part of the program to better scale for new people. The Tuesday/Thursday and some Saturday classes will use them if the programming makes use of them.
We’ll let you know when the workout has a heart rate associated with it by specifying it in the program. We’ll set everyone up with a temporary account on the system when you register for one of the classes that is using HR in the workout.
Some people may not want their heart rate displayed to everyone else, no problem you can opt out. Or you can use an app to record your results privately—you won’t be able to “see” what your heart is doing real time unless you look at your phone, not recommended.
We’re still playing with the app that’s used in the gym and will be looking at how best to correlate the data we collect for you and feed that into group programming, but we will.
We have a few “loaner” HRMs but will require you buy a strap—they get pretty gross when we sweaty guys use them. The HRM we’re using is the Polar H7, you can purchase them on Amazon ($50) or Best Buy (they qualify for Best Buy’s price match). You can purchase a strap from us or at the above locations ($15 from us).
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