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Heart Rate Training

Name: Heart Rate Training
Brand: HUMAN KINETICS
SKU: 9781492590224
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By Roy T. Benson, Declan Connolly
Imprint: HUMAN KINETICS
Release Date: April 23, 2020
Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 272

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With an abundance of apps and wearable technologies that allow us to track, observe and record our fitness data, it's never been easier to use heart rate training to improve athletic performance. However, these tools can make it confusing. That's where Heart Rate Training, 2nd Edition comes in. ;In this brand new edition, authors Roy Benson and Declan Connolly combine their decades of coaching experience and scientific expertise to help you process data and determine the best way to make a heart rate monitor work for you. Inside you'll find the basic exercise science you need to calculate your target heart rate, understand fitness training and use heart rate variability (HRV) training to aid in recovery. There's also information to teach you how to vary the intensity, duration, frequency and mode of your exercise sessions to help you improve your endurance, stamina and speed. The text also features sample programmes which help you design a long-term training for various sports including running, cycling, swimming and team sports. Whether your goal is to improve lifelong fitness or take your athletic performance up a notch, you'll get the results you want with Heart Rate Training.

Roy Benson is an exercise scientist and former running coach. He coached professionally for 56 years, working with military, club, university and school teams. Before selling the camps in 2014, Benson was the owner and president of Running Ltd., a company that operated Nike-sponsored summer camps for both adults and high school runners. Benson has also been consulted on heart rate training for both Polar and Nike and has written three running books on the subject. For over 25 years he was a special contributor to Running Times magazine and was a contributing editor for Running Journal magazine. His booklet Precision Running (Polar Electro) has sold over 200,000 copies and has been translated into seven languages. ;;Dr Declan Connolly is a professor and exercise physiologist at the University of Vermont. He also consults to numerous sports organisations including the World Rugby Union Network, NHL, NFL, U.S. Rowing and U.S. Skiing. Connolly has also served as a consultant to the International Olympic Committee on several occasions. As well as achieving 300 publications in scientific journals, his work has also been widely quoted in the media, including stories in New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Runner's World. His has also appeared on more than 24,000 websites and has been the subject of news stories on the BBC, CBS and numerous other TV and radio stations.

Part I. Foundations Chapter 1. Monitoring for Maximum Performance Chapter 2. Evaluating and Customizing Your Zones Chapter 3. Getting the Most From Your Monitor Part II. Training Chapter 4. Targeting Sport-Specific Fitness With Heart Rate Chapter 5. Increasing Aerobic Endurance Chapter 6. Raising Anaerobic Threshold Chapter 7. Boosting Speed and Power Part III. Programs Chapter 8. Designing an Effective Training Program Chapter 9. Walking Chapter 10. Jogging and Running Chapter 11. Cycling Chapter 12. Swimming Chapter 13. Triathlon Chapter 14. Rowing Chapter 15. Cross-Country Skiing Chapter 16. Team Sports Appendix: Heart Rate Training Zone Calculation Chart

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