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You can also test the accuracy of your numbers out on the run, for example by running at what feels like a hard pace (using the ‘talk test’, you should only be able to get two or three words out at a ...

Low intensity heart exercising can help improve your endurance, though it may take longer to achieve your fitness goals than traditional high heart rate training. You may have read or heard that to ...

You track your VO2 max and working heart rate, but this underrated biometric may tell you more about your heart and long-term ...

That tension becomes especially clear with heart rate zone training, a popular five-tier system that endurance athletes use to measure effort and fine-tune performance. The well-known formula is ...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last couple of years, there’s a good chance that you will have come across the term heart rate variability (or HRV for short). Popularised by the likes ...