LifeFitness Treadmill (Walking speed 3.8 MPH, Running Speed 7.0 MPH): 5 intervals of 3 minutes running/3 minutes walking. My heart rate only got as high as 185 BPM, so I'm starting to adapt well to this. One more like this, then it's on to 4 minutes running/2 minutes walking.
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Out of interest, are you keeping a log of your max heartrate changes - would be interesting to see a graph in a few months.
I've just started to do that, but only by watching it. Of course, the obvious way to know I'm getting more efficient aerobically is to run longer before feeling like I want to die;) But I'm starting to note how quickly I drop from BPM at the end of the run to BPM at the end of the walk (to gauge how fast my body recovers) and the highest BPM reached at the last set. I'll try to take your suggestion up; the tough part would be that I would have to write fast rather than stop.
I'm also starting to think of doing my steady state work on the elliptical at a heart rate of 140-150 rather than just below 130. I already know that 175-190 whips my ass, but I want to recover faster in the walking portion.
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