WHY HEART RATE TRAINING IS THE SMART WAY TO WORKOUT?
Using real-time heart rate data during your workouts means you have instant insight into how your body is responding. This means you’ll be training smarter, which is always better than simply training harder.
In a nutshell, smart training that leads to results is based on three variables:
- Frequency: How many times you exercise during a period of time, for example per week.
- Duration: How long you exercise at a time, usually counted in minutes.
- Intensity: This one is a bit more complicated – and that’s where your heart rate comes in.
Your heart rate is one of the best indicators of how hard your body is working during training. Instead of trying to ‘guesstimate’ the intensity of your workout, your best bet is to rely on your heart rate which is a trackable number, just like frequency and duration.