I'm confused, hope some of you trainer types can help me.
We did a threshold class in spin, using HRM's to supposedly establish what our individual aerobic/anaerobic threshold is.
(keep in mind that the various instructors have everything from a health club certification to real athletic training degree, not sure what Catherine has)
the basis was the simple formula, 220-age as maximum. The class was based on this: warm up, ride for 20 minutes at the highest level you could hold consistently for 20 minutes, but not go higher than, recover for 2 minutes, then go another 20 minutes at that same level as before, then the cool down.
Using the hrm as a guide, I found I was able to maintain right at 88% of max ( with little swings to 87/89) but I could not mainatin above that... she says that I should consider 88 my threshold number.
so, how do I use this in the future... Just for awarness, or what?
Was this done properly? Or was this method rather simplistic...Is 88% a "good" number? I know my recovery was good, I dropped into the mid 60's pretty quickly during the two minute recovery...
any help interpreting this stuff would be appreciated!!
thanks
geargrrl
We did a threshold class in spin, using HRM's to supposedly establish what our individual aerobic/anaerobic threshold is.
(keep in mind that the various instructors have everything from a health club certification to real athletic training degree, not sure what Catherine has)
the basis was the simple formula, 220-age as maximum. The class was based on this: warm up, ride for 20 minutes at the highest level you could hold consistently for 20 minutes, but not go higher than, recover for 2 minutes, then go another 20 minutes at that same level as before, then the cool down.
Using the hrm as a guide, I found I was able to maintain right at 88% of max ( with little swings to 87/89) but I could not mainatin above that... she says that I should consider 88 my threshold number.
so, how do I use this in the future... Just for awarness, or what?
Was this done properly? Or was this method rather simplistic...Is 88% a "good" number? I know my recovery was good, I dropped into the mid 60's pretty quickly during the two minute recovery...
any help interpreting this stuff would be appreciated!!
thanks
geargrrl