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RE: Some missing information

Comment comment by VnutZ on 30 March 2007

Actually, I first got the idea of heart rate based training almost seven years ago while I was doing my CTLT time as a cadet. (For the uninitiated, CTLT is like an officer internship in the army). I met a lieutenant that had just come out of OCS (Officer Candidate School) and he described a program they had tried on his class. Rather than improve everyone's fitness by doing the standard Army "sweat-until-it-sucks" method, everyone was given a heart rate monitor and exercised at their own pace so long as it was within a target heart rate for forty-five minutes. These guys apparently had huge improvements such as dropping nearly two to three minutes off their run times. When I could run, I was slow so I gave it a shot and have been a fan of THR based training ever since.

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RE: Some missing information by guyvia :: NR5

This is exactly the advice I give those who ask me how I lost my weight. I tell them to figure out their target heart rate zone, and shoot to be in the lower-middle of that for as long as they can... then crank down the speed at the end so when the leave the gym still panting (a huge psychological downer for many people).

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