Oof that run was a tricky session. But I think I enjoyed it? I couldn’t quite remember what heart rate I needed to achieve and my watch was all over the place in regard to pace but I tried to keep each lap at 1:55 ish. If I were to do it again in future I could perhaps put a target HR or pace on the workout ?
Could barely hold myself together for the cool down 🤣 I enjoyed looking at the graphs on Strava though
Arm session complete With no probs – went a little heavier on the old bench press 💪
Yeah ultimately the key to these sessions is staying below your lactate threshold from a HR point of view. A decent watch will be ok, but if really keen to pursue this type of training (not essential) an external HR monitor is recommended. Most likely for you looking at your HR zones I would predict 170 would be LT2. I’ve written than even before checking your HR stats for this session on Strava so I can then go an compare. Let’s head over there now and see……ok so yes, as the reps progressed we HR was climbing gradually, so you were probably more focused on pace, which given the session instructions was kind of right. But what that led to was likely working that bit too hard, meaning the session felt really tough. So I had a similar experience, by reps 8 or 9 I was hitting my LT2 before the end of the rep. So I dropped my pace, to ensure that didn’t happen. I really do think it’s a good way to train but you have to commit to trusting that HR data and using that to determine your pace, rather than the other way around. Any questions just ask. But really well done for working so hard, probably too hard in this case, so I’m going to give you some bonus pts.
Coach Simon 🍊
