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Precision Heart Rate Trainingx$6.50
  (19 reviews)
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Fine-tune your workout intensity! Precision Heart Rate Training fully explains why and how to train with a heart rate monitor. Editor Edmund Burke introduces the basic concepts of heart rate training. Then an all-star panel of experts explains how to design and use training programs for seven different sports and activities: • Walking—Therese Iknoian • Running—Roy Benson • Cycling—Joe Friel • In-line Skating—Frank Fedel • Multisport Training—Timothy Moore • Circuit Training—Wayne Westcott • Group Exercise—Jay Blahnik Each chapter contains training guidelines specific to the activity described, including how to find the optimal training intensity, design an effective training program, and adjust workout intensity, plus sample workouts or programs, or both. And Jim Dotter, founder of Biometrics, Inc., contributes a special chapter on ways to use heart data for long-term training. With heart rate monitors, athletes and exercisers can use high-tech biofeedback training to develop state-of-the-art programs for better performance. Precision Heart Rate Training shows you how to take full advantage of today’s training technology.
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Feeble Heart Rate Training
By A25BL5IDBBDNRS on 2000-03-04
This book tries to do too much: it wants to be a heart rate training book AND a book about training for sporting events. The book is only 200 pages...get the picture? The book provides cursory information on training for various sports: walking, running, cycling, in-line skating, and triathlon. Obviously, if you really wanted to learn how to train competitively for these sports, this ISN'T the book for you. If you're looking for a book that tells you how to create a workout you can do at a health club on a stair-climbing machine or elliptical trainer, etc....this is NOT the book for you. Sure, there's a chapter on "group" exercise (i.e. aerobic class), but it FAR from practical. The introductory chapters merely delineate the heart zones rather than offering suggestions for combining them meaningfully or providing progressive programs. The book simply tries to cover too much in order to increase its market.
Informative, detailed and chock full of information
By AGFBAF2M8HUJ0 on 2000-06-08
Given some of the less-than-favourable reviews here I thought I was going to find an average, if not hum-drum book. I was very pleasantly surprised! This is a great book, very detailed with good descriptions of the Karvonon method of calculating HRR (Heart Rate Reserve) and its correlation to VO2 Max and Net VO2 and how to use this information to determine appropriate training zones. It had some good sections on various other fitness activities (such as cycling, swimming and walking) and serves as a good resource for anyone wanting to get fit faster while lowering your chances of injury or overtrainig.I think if you combined this book with "Heart Rate Monitor Training for the Compleat Idiot" you'd posses all the information you'd ever need to train to maximum effectiveness with your heart rate monitor.
JUNK
By on 2003-09-26
I have been interested in improving my performance for years, and finally decided to take the plunge and look into heart-rate monitoring. This book does not really support a specific philosophy and who knows if the so called "science" is supportable. I also read "Heart Monitor Training for the Compleat Idiot" by John L. Parker and recommend it. It appears much more scientific and emphasizes recovery over training in a zone. Don't buy this book. Rory Donaldson roryd@brainsarefun.com
The book had some good information
By on 2001-05-28
I had bought the book to help me with Mtn. bike training and my son with running. The book didn't provide information for mtn. biking though it did have a section on road biking. The running chapter seemed incomplete. The major table that was supposed to explain the heart rate targets was not explained fully. Also, oddly, there is a quote in there that is identical in two chapters but attritubted to two different people! In summary, I was disappointed with the book but it may be helpful to someone else.
The book that finally got me running successfully.
By A11UE0B0PICSR3 on 2001-09-04
I do inline skating, skiing, and weight training, but every time I tried to take up running, I would hit a wall. I just couldn't run for long sessions, and after a few I would hurt something and give up. Then I read about Ed Burke in Outside. This book, along with Burke's "Optimal Muscle Recovery" (I tore an Achilles tendon and developed plantar fascitis from skating and skiing) and "Stretching" finally got me to understand that I wasn't building the base I needed in order to run better. By following the training programs in this book, I've greatly increased my capacity without injury, and am slowly seeing my speed increase. Also liked this book because it took a different approach for each covered sport, and it treated inline skating with the respect it deserves as an endurance activity.
- This is an excellent guide!
By on 1999-03-30
The reviews below must have been written by a "competitor" of Polar. They are a clear attack on the company. Not the book. Ed Burke is a real "hands-on" exercise physiologist. The reviewer is a business person not a book reviewer!
- This is a practical,informative book based on research .
By on 2000-04-24
Ed Burke, Colorado's most noted exercise physiologist and a professor at the University of Colorado has written another great book. Ed has been a professor for over two decades and a respected author as well. He hasn't traumatized his own body--like traumatizing means engaging in the eco-challenge, 100 mile runs and other dance until you die events. I think most people want to be fit and have fun. Fun is what Burke is all about.
- Wandering, without meat
By on 1999-03-10
The first chapters could be used for POLAR promotional material. They are repetitive, sale-sy and without any real substance. The contributions by other authors are better, and they do offer some good introductory material for the person interested in fitness training, but little to help in setting up a program, goals, methods, etc. The final discussions about software presents a list of criteria for good software, but no contacts, no list of products or companies, no web page URLs. The reason this book is not a one star book, is because of the multiple authors and perspectives that round out and give a little credibility to the message.
- A traumatolgist...Part II
By A25BL5IDBBDNRS on 2000-03-31
I think that George's point is that calling yourself a "tramatologist" doesn't mean a thing. I study trauma too...but that doesn't make my review of a heart-rate training book any more valid. My review was based on facts. The book isn't that great...for the reasons I gave. I can even be more specific about my reasons. Note: saying it is "fun" and "informative" means absolutely nothing...just like saying, "I'm a tramatolgist." (sic) And that would be...a MD? PhD? BA? A mail-order degree? Think about it... The book isn't terrible and I'd recommend going to the library to check it out if you're looking for a cursory introduction to heart-rate training...but I wouldn't buy it. By the way, Sally's book isn't that good either.
- not for the average person
By on 1999-01-26
This book is geared more for the person into competive training. I did not find it at all uesful for a general fitness program.
- This book answers your questions!
By A3HW0QQT98FF4N on 1999-01-11
As a traumatologist and interested in sports medicine I can tell you: this is the best book to answer your questions. It is comprehensive and gives a lot of tips that you can apply the training theory to your daily practice.
- A traumatolgist is....
By A20EJAKZUZA9HX on 2000-03-25
For the "reader" below--whom I assume is really Sally Edwards--a book competitor--a traumatologist is someone who studies trauma! The Denver Post recently did a wonderful story on Ed Burke and the host of books he has authored unlike Edwards who does not write hers--and how Ed makes learning fun and informative! She should take time reading it....instead of globetrotting.
- Great book for heart rate training!
By on 2000-03-09
I found this book extremely helpful and don't feel the criticisms of the review below warranted. Ed makes learning fun!
- Why is this a great book?
By ADD8NJO6WSVG3 on 2000-03-21
It is interesting to note that the "reader" from Telluride, Colorado does not list any reasons "why" this is a great book. In fact, no one does! Why? The book is not that good! Ed makes learning fun? Please... An article in a fitness magazine provides as much "fun" information! Also, just because someone claims to be traumatologist (whatever that means!) and endorses the book, it doesn't make it any more legitimate. If it's so "great" why doesn't anyone give any reasons why? Hmm...I'm not against Burke & I'm not against Polar...I am for honest, fair reviews based ON fact. An honest review? This book is simply okay.
- This book answers your questions
By on 1999-01-06
Being a traumatologist and involved with questions of sports medicine, I found most of my questions answered in this book in a very comprehensive and founded manner. It's the comprehensive manual for any user of a Heart Rate Monitor. It's really worth 5 stars.
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