Improve your endurance and promote longevity through Zone 2 heart rate training. Learn about the benefits and how it can enhance your overall fitness level.
Zone 2 app tracks how much of your weekly workout time is performed in the zone 2 heart rate range, typically between 60-70% of your maximum heart rate. Aimin…
However, research has shown that Zone 2 training, meaning training done at 60-70% of your max heart, allows you to build an aerobic base, enhancing your endurance, optimizing your fitness, and unlocking performance gains. While it is often overlooked as a modality of training best for ...
Yes, there are benefits to HIIT-style training, but… The importance of base training or zone 2 heart rate (HR) training has fallen by the wayside for far too many of us. Our society loves quick, hard challenges. We gamify everything… you watch the leaderboard and want to move up fur...
Heart rate training can be confusing due to the many different types of terminology used and the many opinions on how we determine what our threshold zone is. Additionally, there are many different charts that give us a variety of ranges which adds to the confusion. This is an example of ...
“Zone 2” is a term drawn from the five-zone system ofheart rate training, and the same concept is also known by other names and metrics. To runners, it is “easy pace” or “long slow distance pace.” To cyclists, it corresponds to zones 2 and 3 of aseven-zone system of mechani...
Zone 2 training is one of the five heart rate zones used to define the intensity of activity, zone 1 being easy (e.g. walking or carrying groceries), and zone 5 being the absolute max you can push to. Zone 2 falls into the lower end of the scale, performed at 60-70% of your ma...
Benefits of Zone 2 Training Unlike the latest fitness fads, zone 2, or moderate-intensity exercise, is backed by decades of research showing its connection with decreasing risk for chronic diseases like heart disease and diabetes as well as many types of cancer. Here are two interesting thing...
Determine your Zone 2 heart rate by using the formula 60-70% of your maximum heart rate.Wear a heart rate monitoror use fitness apps to track and stay within this range during workouts. Consistency is Key Regular, consistent training in Zone 2 is essential for reaping its benefits. Aim for...
So if your heart rate creeps into zone 3 on a “zone 2” training run, that may or may not be accurate. But even if it is, if you can still breathe and speak more or less normally, you’re getting plenty of benefits from your zone 3 cardio. ...