4 Quick Steps to Finding Your Best Saturday Long Workout Pace
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Finding the correct pace to do your workouts is extremely important to your success. Do you really want to work harder than you have to in order to get the same results?
Step #1 is to locate a track at your local high school or Junior College.
Being on the track allows you to measure an exact distance and also have a consistent flat surface.
Step #2 run or walk, one or two miles.
This will be either 4 or 8 laps around the track. Most people do one mile if walking and two miles if running.
Step #3 is to immediately take your heart rate when you finish your run / walk.
Obviously having heart rate monitor is one of the more accurate ways to take your pulse.
You can also do it by placing two fingers on your wrist, thumb side between the bone and the tendon.
Feel your pulse and count how many beats in 10 seconds and multiply by 6.
Step #4 is to do the math.
A. make sure you remember how far you went 1 or 2 miles.
If you went 1 mile and you took 12 minutes that is a 12 minute mile. If you went 2 miles or eight laps in 22 minutes divide that 22 minutes by 2 and you have a 11 minute mile pace.
B. Your heart rate will have an effect on the actual Pace you should be running. For the average person a heart rate between 130 to 140 beats per minute is normal for a slow conversational pace.
Now you may believe you were going slow but if your heart rate says 160 beats per minute. That’s 20 beats per minute above the high end.
For every 10 beats per minute above the high, reduce your pace by 30 seconds per mile. So if you ran a 11 minute pace, and your heart rate was 20 beats above the high.
By this example you would have to reduce your pace to a 12 minute mile to be in the proper heart rate.
Obviously bodies are different and perhaps you only need to reduce your pace 45 secs per mile to get your heart rate into the desired range.
Now what?
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