The Effectiveness of Training with Just Heart Rate Monitors

Question

Sayımlar ve bir kalp atış hızı monitörü olan bir cihazı sadece antrenman değil; yarışan kalp atış olan bir aygıtta çok mükemmel bir aşamaya kadar kalperit dahi kullanmamı yapabilirim aktif olarak.

Answer 1

Certainly you can efficiently use the heart rate monitor alone for your training and preparing for a competitive occasion. Heart rate monitors can still be useful for training purposes, particularly during long steady state training sessions, even though power meters offer more consistent measures. Knowing the type of training and other factors that strain the heart, is crucial when using this technology. Training with such simplicity, many athletes have been able to prepare effectively for a top level competition with heart rate monitors exclusively.

Comments

It's a well known issue that optical HR monitors aren't particularly accurate for cycling in particular...something to do with the movement of your wrist.

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This is my first year of training and I bought a HR monitor chest strap. Power meters are expensive and are a lot more of a fuss to setup.

At the end of the day I'm training for a charity ride (hoping to do 75km in 2.5 hours) and do weekend group rides. Unless someone is a professional, all the power meter data is a bit useless. The people who truly need power meters tend to get them for free.

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Without specifically saying so, I think you've demonstrated the superiority of the simple chest strap HRM. Seems to me Alex has gone up there 'pretty hard'... Zone 3 and that would, for him correlate with the 155 average heart rate? He produces some impressive power on that too. 142 BPM would have been Zone 2.... and it clearly wasn't that unless he stopped half way for a selfie
Does it matter? Yes. If you want Zone 2 miles they need to be just that, but more importantly, at the top end you definitely don't want to be pushing way beyond your maximum heart rate and literally ending up flat out and needing CPR.

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I like heartrate because it does tell me when I'm fatigued or overheating or just not feeling 100%.  Power is always power, but I'm a real human who gets stressed, sick, tired, or hormones

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Power vs effort…given that the heart is the engine and you’re looking for performance gains look to the heart and effort (bpm)for indications of gain.❤