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Originally Posted by Ben E Lou
Is that 70-75% using Karvonen (sp?) or just the straight calc?
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To be honest, I'm not sure if I know that answer. I don't actually do HR running training myself and look for pace based training based off of my VDOT scores. Most of the advanced marathon books have an easier calculation for HRmax to be: 220 - your age or 207 - 0.7 * (your age) but that approach is pretty inaccurate as different people are well different. I know the suggestion that I had was finding it through this method:
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• Max heart rate: warm up thoroughly (e.g. run easy for 20 minutes and include a few strides), then run three all-out 600-meter repeats up a hill, jogging down between each interval. The highest heart rate you achieve during the third interval will be within 2-3 bpm of your max heart rate, as long as you did these hill reps all-out.
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From a scientific standpoint, I'm not sure which method Karvonen or Zoladz is more accurate.