If the numbers your watch sets for zone 2 don’t track with what you’ve found your heart rate to typically be during truly ...

Heart rate zones represent different percentages of your maximum heart rate. They can help guide the intensity and effectiveness of your workouts. The benefits of exercise are widespread and include ...

Don't accept the default settings as law. Strava allows subscribers to set different heart rate zones for running versus ...

attending cardiologist and the director of Women and Heart Disease at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City These two obsessions intersect in the latest fitness “trend”: heart rate training.

It’s not often you hear someone ask what heart rate zone you’re running in, even if you’re clearly wearing the latest heart rate monitor or activity- tracking tech. But with heart rate data more ...

As I referenced last week, one of the tests I've used to enhance human performance, under medical supervision (cardiac nurse and cardiologist interpretation), is the Cardiopulmonary Stress Test (CPX).

Not that it was ever unpopular, but it’s fair to say that running is going through somewhat of a renaissance right now. Data released by Sport England in April of this year revealed that 250,000 more ...

In my toolbox article last month, I introduced the concept of using your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) – the difference in timing between subsequent heartbeats – to provide insight into how you are ...

Your heart beats faster when you’re working hard, so it’s a good way to tell if you’re exercising hard enough...right? Well, not exactly. Your heart rate is only a good gauge of effort in certain ...