Over the years I learned how my body responds to stress, what effect different intensities and training sessions have on it and, ultimately, how training programs should be designed/adjusted and executed. I got my first heart rate monitor within months of returning from that training camp and used it daily to track my heart rate before, during and after sessions ever since. Most importantly, that you can actually quantify and measure it. I had no idea how much opportunity there is in varying training intensity. Until then I only had an on/off switch and thought you go hard in training, recover and repeat the next day. To say I was hooked would be an understatement. That way, adjusting the training plan to the athlete’s current condition will lead to better and more sustainable results. It takes a lot of mental strength to push hard during training, but it’s much harder to know when to pull back. He told me that he analyses heart rate data after every session to see how well his athletes execute training programs and how their bodies react. I had no idea what that was or why it’s needed, but was eager to learn. It was 2005 and the word ‘heart rate monitor’ was not popular. While talking with other athletes at one of my first training camps I learned that coach asks them to wear a strange device during training.
Heart rate training zones help to focus on personal goals
I compared myself with others and tried to replicate or “beat” them in every training session, which mostly left me tired, over-trained and frustrated from not seeing desired results. The concept of heart rate training zones was foreign to me and the main effort I knew was “beat other teammates”. In fact, I’d even ignore it trying to push through the pain. I used to be really bad at listening to my body.
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