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Heart monitor training is an issue that I really feel is important for the runner to use if you want to get the most feed back on your training runs and at road races. A heart monitor gives you the information in a dispassionate form that has nothing to do with your mood. You may not feel as if you are accomplishing much on your five-mile training run for example, but the heart monitor can tell you if you are indeed in the correct heart range that will do you the most good. Most heart monitors come with a book that will explain all the details of how to use them and how to figure out what your maximum heart rate is, as well as the minimum heart rate you need to work out in. My goal here is to briefly touch on the overall value of using one while you train. First of all, when you are training, wouldn't it be nice if you knew exactly how hard your heart was working? Well, a heart monitor is just the ticket to do that. One of the most common mistakes a runner is likely to make is overtraining - running too hard, too fast, for a long distance. Now of course there is a time when we need to train at an intense level but most of our runs need to be at a slower than "race pace" so that we have something left over for the actual race. Some runners need to reduce body fat and here is another way that a heart monitor can come in handy. If you run at 65 percent of your maximum heart rate you will burn fat. How will you know if you are running at 65 percent of your maximum heart rate without a heart monitor? Let's say you want to maintain a heart rate of 144 bpm ( bpm= beats per minute) on a training run. The
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