lower than "expected" heart rate - Page 2

Raptor wrote:
> Talk to me more about what that feels like. I could use the motivation. :-)
>

Well the numbers are that you will improve your aerobic capacity at least 15%. *I think* the older
you get the bigger this improvement will be.

Hills that I now call roadbumps made me feel like fainting and almost wanting to puke if I went up
them hard. Like 25 km/h. Now I can accelerate up to 40 km/h over those same roadbumps without barely
raising my pulse. Today I was in a two man breakaway leading up a 500 m long incline doing 47 km/h
all the way over the top. Earlier I couldn't even go that fast on a downhill without a tailwind.

How many years of intense training will you need to lower your HR approximately 30 beats for the
same workload?

When I quit I wore my HRM night and day. Any time I wanted smoke I just glanced at my HR and
immediately remembered why I was quitting. Made it real easy.

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Max Watt <maxwatt2002@yahoo.com> wrote:
: Raptor <me@attbi.com> wrote in message news:<3EBB3230.208@attbi.com>...
:> The other day I wasn't feeling strong, was riding at what felt to me to be a fairly hard tempo,
:> but my heart rate stayed lower than I "felt" it should.

2 days ago I was training at a subthreshold pace, and seemed my pulse didn't come up to
reasonable level until 10 minutes or more into the exercise. (With about 10 minutes warmup before
that.) My legs still felt some of the training from 2 days before that, but I found the pace
somewhat easy to push... only when I pulled right up to the threshold for 20 minutes more did it
become "a bit" harder...

: This is a possible sign of overtraining. If it is, and you keep pushing yourself, it will get
: worse. The early stages can be reversed with a week or two of rest, or you can push yourself into
: a state where it takes months to recover. Or maybe you're just coming down with a cold and it
: will pass.

Cold can be a good reason to back off...

In my case it might be overtraining, training conscientously now as a race is coming up very soon.
Don't feel entirely motivated and a bit tired... So I should take a full week or two off?

Thought just 3-4 days prerace taper would do it, and then some easy time... a week or two at
some point.

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