Training heart rate zones of teamtbb , how to know you are in the right 'zone'

[rebekahkeat]

Today Scottie and I were riding home from track, we were discussing earlier in the week about several age groupers asking us questions about what ''zone '' we were training in that day or what was my ''perceived exertion'' ? Oh my god my answer to that (as it was a 30 min time trial set by boss) ...''I dunno it was F..... HARD''
I dont want to ruin my and Scotties idea on 'zone training'...yes ofcourse I know what it is,I studied 4 years of Exercise Science! ....Most of us know exactly what 'heart rate zone' we are in without wearing a heart rate monitor.I guess that is workings of having a coach who pretends to be non-scientific but really knows more than any leading sports scientist!
So im leaving it up to Scottie for  our decription of our perceived heart rate zones!

[Scott DeFillipis - "Scott D"]

Well I will tell you this...I must have been in at least Zone 4 on the track this morning thus causing me to fall asleep after only to wake up and find that Bek has hijacked my post

With out further ado.  Here is what we have come up with..

Zone 1: Hard
Zone 2: This F#ing hurts
Zone 3: F#ck my life
Zone 4: My eye balls are about to pop out
Zone 5: You've just sh#t yourself. (Rumor is Doc hit this zone a few years back with a maxed out Heart Rate of 240)

[JamesCunnama]

You guys left out the one zone that EVERYONE gets wrong:

Zone REC: The recovery zone - best described as 'If I go any slower I'll be going backwards!'

[Fegan]

I look forward to next weeks programme!!!! 

Hmmm Zone 5 isn't difficult, I usually get very close to that on my long runs.......
Maybe we should have a "The best Al Fresco defecation location competition" thread. For where you've been caught short in a famous or inappropriate place whilst training.

[Huggy Bear]

This wasnt training but it is a top story -
A friend of mine had got a job at a really posh fee paying girls school - the parents pay £25k+ a year.
On his first day he bumped into the headmistress in the car park, while she was politely chatting he got an uncomfortable urge to fart and thought he would discretely try and let it go.
However it turns out it wasnt a fart it was a big case of diarrhea and he ended up soiling himself infront of her! (He had just come back from the himalayas and had caught giardia) He then said he had forgotted something and had to go home!
Not so funny bit was that he ended up in hospital on a drip very shortly after - but at least he had an excuse.

PS - it really was a friend of mine. They would never have me at a school like that!!

[Fegan]

After listening to the Doc's speech, eerm, interview on IM Talk, I was thinking about the "Grey Zone" (or gray for those in the U.S.).

Scott had me down for 40 minutes easy run, I jumped on the treadmill and rather than dial in easy, I pushed up to 10K pace, then thought to myself - have I just entered the "grey zone"? A dialed it down again a did as I was told.

Interestingly on the recent thread Doc mentions hammering it on the turbo with a ride outside at the weekend, so again we're skipping that big middle section, going hard and then long and presumably easy at the weekend

But then Doc says - the long slow run is bullshit, so where does this fit into things, or is the long slow run just base / endurance but the reasl work is on the tempo runs and 800's?

Or should I just switch off my brain and do as I'm told?

[doc]

it all must come in context of what your doing
long slow runs are golden , and some long fast runs are bullshit .
to make destinctions , one must have a feel for the wholistic approach to training .
that why you should turn your head off and listen to your coach .

[Fegan]

Flicks switch to off position.

[Scott DeFillipis - "Scott D"]

Not to worry Pal, you will have ample time to run hard in the coming months!!! For now we building that volume up a bit

[doc]

fegan ,
thats a great move , you will benfit from this strategy  big time
just do it
ive heard that somewhere , be a great slogan  to sell somthin