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From: kenf@tekigm.UUCP (Ken Ferschweiler)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: SPRING TRAINING
Message-ID: <288@tekigm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 11:19:22 EST
Article-I.D.: tekigm.288
Posted: Mon Mar  4 11:19:22 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 8-Mar-85 03:48:55 EST
References: <141@cylixd.UUCP> <468@hoxna.UUCP>
Reply-To: kenf@tekigm.UUCP (Ken Ferschweiler)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Summary: 

In article <468@hoxna.UUCP> kfl@hoxna.UUCP (Kenton Lee) writes:
>One solution is to get a heart rate monitor and make sure you do
>some work.  Ask you doctor what a reasonable max. pulse would be
>(it varies with age and physical condition) and do some sort of
>intervals with you max. pulse as the "on" goad.

The monitor is a good idea, as is the doctor, but I would strongly
recommend against riding intervals at the start of one's spring
training.  Going all-out at your maximum heart rate before you
have built up a good aerobic milage base is an open invitation to
injury.  (This applies to running as well.)  To get going in the
spring, most bikers like to spin;  that is, keep your pedal cadence
at above 80 and keep your heart rate at 65-85% of maximum.  This
keeps you from injuring your knees by pushing too big a gear before
you've worked up to it.  Personally, I don't think 80 rpm is really
fast enough for this sort of work;  racers often spin at 120-150,
but most of the books say >80.  Covert Bailey's "Fit or Fat" has
a good guide to figuring out what your aerobic heart rate should be.

Ken Ferschweiler
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