The Meaning Behind It All
We are starting a new study in our church on the book of John. Pastor Mike gave us the introduction and overview of the book. It is going to be very interesting. He said that the other gospels are reports of what happened, while John is telling us not what just happened, but what it "means". For example, Matthew, Mark, and Luke tell of Jesus taking the barley loaves and fishes and mutliplying them so that thousands could eat. John says that he did that miracle so that He could proclaim, "I AM THE BREAD of life." (Paraphrase: If you think this is a big deal, you haven't seen anything yet.)
On the fitness front, if you are serious about getting in better shape this year, I would like to give you a tip: get a heart rate monitor. It will give you important feedback as to whether you are working too hard or not hard enough. It will be the "meaning" behind the minutes that you put in.
On the fitness front, if you are serious about getting in better shape this year, I would like to give you a tip: get a heart rate monitor. It will give you important feedback as to whether you are working too hard or not hard enough. It will be the "meaning" behind the minutes that you put in.
posted by Joyce at 7:34 PM
3 Comments:
thanks for the tip. i have a heart rate moniter. so, what equals working too hard?
Yeah...and what do you do with a faster than average heart rate?
My resting heart rate is below average but I am almost always over 80% within a few minutes of starting my run! And my HR stays up there for the duration (sometimes several hours) but I'm not totally exhausted at the end of the run...
I've never gotten a clear answer on this so your wisdom and experience would be GREATLY appreciated.
The only thing I've thought about doing is to change the heart rate zones on my Garmin to higher numbers so that 100% becomes 80%, etc.
Thanks for any help you can give me!
Dear Stephanie and Vicky and Dale,
I haven't blogged for awhile so want to apologize for not getting back to you sooner. Sometimes if you have a smaller heart or anykind of structural variation, you may have a heart rate that's higher than average. Numbers are relative to the meaning that you assign them. If you notice that consistently, when you work at a challenging pace, your heart rate always goes about 150, that would be a great frame of reference to know that you are working in your training zone. The Kordovan age formula of subtracting your age from 220 and multiplying it by 60 to 85% for a training zone is not all that accurate--especially as you get older and as you get more fit. A good rule of thumb is just to note at what level you are starting to perspire and breathe more heavily (that would be the low end of the scale) and at what level you feel that you could only continue on for two minutes or less (that would be the high end). I hope this helps!
Joyce
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