Hi,
I have a little problem. Yesterday me and my friend had to do a LTHR test, and I have read, that you have to do a time trial, where you're riding as fast as you can for 20 minutes. Then you'll find the average heart rate of the time trial and take 95 % of that. That should be very close to your LTHR. Then we would use this LTHR to calculate our heart rate zones for Coggan Power Zones. Me and my friend have done that, and it worked out very well. But underneath is our problem.
When my friend had to do his first workout after the test, VO2 max (> 106 % of the LTHR) , but he could'nt reach this high heart rate, only for about 25 seconds ... Why not ? Normally are these efforts about 3 - 8 minutes. Is it because the heart cannot reach high bpm (beats per minute) in the start of training or ... ? I really don't no ...
Please help !
MrPerfect
I have a little problem. Yesterday me and my friend had to do a LTHR test, and I have read, that you have to do a time trial, where you're riding as fast as you can for 20 minutes. Then you'll find the average heart rate of the time trial and take 95 % of that. That should be very close to your LTHR. Then we would use this LTHR to calculate our heart rate zones for Coggan Power Zones. Me and my friend have done that, and it worked out very well. But underneath is our problem.
When my friend had to do his first workout after the test, VO2 max (> 106 % of the LTHR) , but he could'nt reach this high heart rate, only for about 25 seconds ... Why not ? Normally are these efforts about 3 - 8 minutes. Is it because the heart cannot reach high bpm (beats per minute) in the start of training or ... ? I really don't no ...
Please help !
MrPerfect