Heart Rate Training 2

Heart Rate Training is on an upswing at Fit It In Fitness.
We now have more than 50% of our clients training with heart rate monitors.

What we've been able to achieve?
1) Learn more about clients and ourselves. Do your clients have cardiac issues? Do you?
2) Push to a new level of fitness. It is amazing how much of a fitness gain you don't get when you don't know how hard you can actually work. I have found that it is not natural for someone to train to 100% max. Everyone stops before they reach 100% and even sometimes 90%.
3) Optimal Recovery. Many of us like to just say we are recovered and move on only to find out after an hour that wasn't the smartest decision we made while feeling extreme fatigue.
4) A new level of interest in workouts. Many people don't enjoy their workouts or worse don't know why they do it or if it even works! When you shift your focus to different intensities and watch yourself recover it changes the whole game.
5) Workout diversity. Now that we have instilled our heart rate training we dedicate a full days worth of workouts to max effort and optimal recovery. This is much different than your normal metabolic classes.
and best of all.....
6)SUCCESS! Everyone who uses a heart rate monitor at Fit It In has seen progress with their workouts and results!

The Data to back this up:
1) I was able to find clients that are inhibited from working to a maximum effort for great reasons! Education for your success! Some of your clients or workout buddies might be pushing to extremes they shouldn't be. If you or anyone you know is taking blood thinners or any blood pressure medication they should understand that their maximum effort is skewed from any equation a fitness professional can give. They must learn how to work in THEIR zones. This is a great teaching tool for "independent success." Sometimes people train at the level of those they are surrounded by (most times out of intimidation) this tool allows to control that.
2) Without a doubt when we first started training with heart rate monitors everyone missed the 90-100% mark. Quickly we all found out there is another gear! When you get to what you think your max is, DIG DEEPER! (Please understand if you feel faint, dizzy, light-headed or short of breath you should STOP). Do not push past a reasonable cardio output.
3) And I quote : "What do I need a monitor for? I know when I'm recovered." My answer: "Ok then you shouldn't have a problem wearing this for me and telling me when you feel recovered."
All those who thought for sure they were recovered and could give 100% at that moment were wrong. They'd look at the watch and ask me if they were ok...They weren't so sure anymore! Now every FII client that wears one knows to look to the monitor for that answer! (Not to mention now they are actually working to 100% of their max and want that recovery!)....I Like this ;)
4) Somehow we've peaked an interest in working out even from the most skeptical of them all. The attention has been taken away from the work being done and refocused to what their bodies are actually doing moment to moment. When is the last time you looked around and saw everyone interested in their workouts? Come to Fit It In...Living proof. Today was one of the best days yet!
5) You think you've seen it all? Done every workout imaginable? Think again! We have just unlocked a new level! Variety is the spice of life! Each day of the week is a different workout and we just kicked it up a notch with our heart rate training.
6) MY FAVORITE: every single person who has been tracking their heart rate summary during workouts has improved their work output and recovery time! I just took a look at our tracking sheets today and not one person has been left behind! All have met a goal they never knew existed: work to 100% of your potential. Our next step is to get everyone to increase recovery time and we are well on our way!

So..what to do?
#1 Get a heart rate monitor : CLICK HERE!
#2 Wear it consistently and track your summary at the end of your workouts including: average heart rate, max heart rate and how you felt.
#3 Aim to decrease your resting and active resting heart rate
and ultimately the time it takes you to recover.
#4 Let me know how it's going!