Heart Rate Zones Explained in 60 Seconds #shorts

Heart Rate Zones Explained:

📊 Zone 1 (50-60%): This is where you’ll be for a casual walk. You’re not getting a ton of aerobic adaptations here, but it’s great for hitting your daily activity goals.

Zone 2 (60-70%): This is the zone for true aerobic training. This is a good target for your long runs.

📈 Zone 3 (70-80%): For the average person, lactate threshold falls in this zone. Well trained aerobic athletes may push LT up closer to 85% though. Regardless, this is a moderate intensity zone for more mid distance runs.

Zone 4 (80-90%): This tends to be fairly anaerobic. We can do longer intervals in this zone. (Ex: 3 mins hard run: 3 minute walk)

🏃🏽‍♂️ Zone 5 (90-100%): This is very high intensity. This is where we will be for short duration HIIT. (Ex: 25 seconds incline run 1:35 Rest)

We’ll discuss how to distribute your training between zones tomorrow.

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There are some studies on walking (zone 1) and its benefits to increase VO2max. Do you think doing more volume... For example, instead of 45min in zone 2, doing 90min in zone 1, could it have a cumulative effect and giving some aerobic adaptations?