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Zones are useless tbh unless you know your max HR. My watch tells me i'm in zone 2 but that was based on a value I put in for max which i care not to test anyti
by fud101 1y ago
Zones are useless tbh unless you know your max HR. My watch tells me i'm in zone 2 but that was based on a value I put in for max which i care not to test anytime soon.
- tobias5 1y agoI do an estimation of max HR, with different methods. This is really just an estimation. For resting HR, which can also be used to get the Zones if you select Karvonen method, I use an export from Apples HealthKit. I currently do the average of the last 7 days. Not sure if Apple does an estimate for this value, too?
- fud101 1y agoOh how cute, estimates. 220-age is so accurate lol. Just a joke to even talk about this nonsense, it's completely unhelpful in all manner. I just set myself an arbitrary goal for the run (say 160bpm over an hour, which is something i'm working towards so i may be say averaging 165 currently) and try to attain that progresively each week. No idea what zone that is, don't care. If it's currently 'zone 4' so what? It will eventually become 'zone 2'. If i spend all my time doing 'zone 2' at worst i'll be wasting time, at best, i'll be spinning my wheels.
- tobias5 1y agoI updated the app "Manual option for max heart rate" and "Manual zone bound settings" gives you now the flexibly to set up whatever numbers you want for the zones. Hope that helps.