Heart Rate Reserve is a useful way to compare relative effort. I work you through two examples: [1] small vs large athlete at 50% effort; and [2] bike vs run at 75% effort.
Thanks, Gordo! I have trouble following with explanations sometimes. I’ve ridden pretty casually for years, but without any particular focus or understanding of training. So yeah, I need the explanation you would use for a newbie or even a child. Thanks for the great information! I started following you and Alan Couzens about a year ago and am really loving the joy of riding slower than ver before! Now I just have to get all educated about the training stuff. Maybe. I’m just an old gal chasing faster riders most of my life. Just the realization I can slow down and make progress makes me happy. And now heart rate reserve. Awesome! Keep up the good work!
The advice to use seated RHR for HRR is spot on - my Garmin, when left on auto and based on sleeping HR, tends to underestimate by 4-8 bpm even when compared to laying in bed right after waking up.. and seated is even higher than that.
There's a nice blog post on Marco Altini's Substack about rest HRs and the different estimation methods marcoaltini.substack.com/p/resting-heart-rate-and-wearables
Thank you, that was very astute! Another issue I noticed with Garmin's algos is when I've had a dozen too many drinks the night before and my resting (suffering, really) HR is 10-15bpm above baseline, it tends to discard that as an outlier and offer a guess as to what the highest reasonable deviation would be - which would probably be fair for the average healthy person.. But I don't need a wearable to tell me I'm not training that day, outside of a recovery powerwalk.
Thanks, Gordo! I have trouble following with explanations sometimes. I’ve ridden pretty casually for years, but without any particular focus or understanding of training. So yeah, I need the explanation you would use for a newbie or even a child. Thanks for the great information! I started following you and Alan Couzens about a year ago and am really loving the joy of riding slower than ver before! Now I just have to get all educated about the training stuff. Maybe. I’m just an old gal chasing faster riders most of my life. Just the realization I can slow down and make progress makes me happy. And now heart rate reserve. Awesome! Keep up the good work!
The advice to use seated RHR for HRR is spot on - my Garmin, when left on auto and based on sleeping HR, tends to underestimate by 4-8 bpm even when compared to laying in bed right after waking up.. and seated is even higher than that.
There's a nice blog post on Marco Altini's Substack about rest HRs and the different estimation methods
marcoaltini.substack.com/p/resting-heart-rate-and-wearables
Thank you, that was very astute!
Another issue I noticed with Garmin's algos is when I've had a dozen too many drinks the night before and my resting (suffering, really) HR is 10-15bpm above baseline, it tends to discard that as an outlier and offer a guess as to what the highest reasonable deviation would be - which would probably be fair for the average healthy person.. But I don't need a wearable to tell me I'm not training that day, outside of a recovery powerwalk.