Everything You Need To Know About Heart Rate & Power Training Zones

If you’re new to endurance sports or starting to train with more structure, you may wonder what everyone is going on about…Zones? What are zones? Why use them & how? We're going back to basics and explaining everything you need to know about Training Zones!

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[gtn]

Will you be using Zones in your training? 🤔

[atlosass]

I've been in the Garmin "ecosystem" for many years and I keep an eye on my zones during training. I'd be curious to see you do a video on how the major watch platforms (Garmin, Polar, Wahoo, etc.) compare to lab derived zones.

[GOTTT]

I stumbled upon the channel 2 days ago. Been a binge consumer since! Really cool and valuable content!! Thank you guys <3

[alansmith]

Great vid thanks :) I use HR zones, minute mile average and feel.
Training is awesome woop

[desroin]

I usually use heart rate and pace since it's interesting how things correlate during the season. My most comfortable zone (using the defaults based on age) is actually zone 3, which on my watch is in the region of 131-149 (Zone 2 being 112-130) and I can spend hours with a heart of around 140 ^^'

[madshansson]

I use HR and powerzones. Works fine for me

[SBoots]

So far I only use my Garmin to keep track. I believe a HR strap is in the cards to be more accurate. Right now I do train in lower HR with speed workouts sprinkled in.

[shisui.]

I'm kinda confused now. Accoring to the MAF-Method my Aerobic Z2 Training HR would below 143 bpm to build my aerobic base. My Z2 (Tempo) Zone is between 153 and 168 with 169 being my current LTH estimate accoring to my Garmin Forerunner 255 using a chest HR monitor.

Now according to this video my areobic base Training zone would be between 114 and 133 bpm (60-70% of max HR with 191) which is impossible for me to maintain while actually jogging. so i would basically walk to build my aerobic base. Using the 85-89% of LTHR the zone should be between 143-150 bpm. So im a little confused right now :D

For reference: I'm 29 years old and have a history of long yeah endureance sport with football and basketball and i just recently started running regularly for the past 4 months. I can comfortably run for 10-15 km with a HR between 143 and 153 (which i thought is my Z2)

[Andy]

How should my heart rate zone's be set up. On my Garmin fénix 7x. I've also bought chest strap to. I'm not sure how the settings should be though.

[avgeekboy]

I also use HR zones. Whatareyour thoughts in HR reserve? Ie. HRmax - HRrest.

[larrylem]

The two different definitions of the zones give completely different heartrate ranges. Else either my max HR and my lactate threshold HR is wrong. Or more likely, this is just guidance and I need to customize my ranges.

[liamroche]

While the principles are great, unfortunately, the zones described are in some cases definitely inconsistent with each other! Eg whatever percentage of MHR LTHR happens to be, you can't have the percentage of MRH rising by 10% between Tempo and Lactate Threshold, while the percentage of LTHR rises by 5%. It is reasonable to consider the LTHR-based zones as being definitive, but still the MHR-based ones should change in a similar way (to be precise, the percentage change from one zone to the next of the percentage (of MHR or LTHR) should be the same). Sorry for the headache!

[davrynbotha]

Hey James, honest review on the wahoo watch and if worth jumping fence from current garmin? Thanks in advance mate🙏🏻

[winklertribe]

I’m trying to use heart rate zones, but when I check my watch after every comfortable run, it’s still zone 3 and 4. Could the zones be wrong, or am I just so used to tempo runs that it feels comfortable?

[gzfashions]

Not sure but when I run a 6:30 pace run my hr is around 175 when I do a 9 min pace its around a 171 bpm. Not sure how accurate Apple Watch se is but yeah any idea why? I have been running at 5:30 am compared to when I’m able to run around 9 am I notice a slight difference in hr. I also have noticed that when I am in the gym consistently seems like the muscle fibers are much stronger and my heart rate would be at about 165 down to 154.

[PsheMeck]

I've been using HR zones for running mainly, for bike though...don't know how to convert HR to power zones so I'm struggling with this a bit. Zone 3 for HR is not always there when doing power zone 3...but maybe it's my false thought process that they would match somehow - maybe good idea for next video to explain this😉

[Richard_Johnson]

This advice in particular should come from someone medically qualified! I find it wierd anyone banging on about HR zones etc (just to increase view count), but HR zone is subjective to a multitude of factors hence impossible to generalise it. Ppl should stop posting such videoes

[Ajumi-]

this video has no new information compared to your last videos about zones :(
i usualy love your videos but this one was a waste of time