Knowing your max heart rate can help you in dial in your training, as it guides your target training zones, cluing you in on when to step on the gas and when to pull back on your efforts. In order to ...

When you work out, your heart beats faster, especially if you are exercising for an extended period of time or at a higher intensity. This helps your heart pump blood to your muscles so they can do ...

Fitness trackers and smartwatches can make it easier to stay in your heart rate training zones. (Getty Creative) Forget the guesswork — fitness just got easier to master. As fitness trackers grow in ...

Runners usually talk in terms of threshold pace, but following your heart can also be a useful way of structuring your sessions. By David Smyth ‘Comfortably hard’ sounds a bit like a contradiction in ...

If the numbers your watch sets for zone 2 don’t track with what you’ve found your heart rate to typically be during truly ...

When I first started running, I always tried to aim to run at a fast pace, which constantly made me feel out of breath and exhausted. But then I learned to focus on a different metric that would make ...

Understanding our body’s target heart rate zones and how they change as we age is crucial for getting the most out of our workouts. If your goal is to burn fat, for example, you’ll want to stay in ...

Fitness trackers and smart watches are widely popular wearable devices that measure several types of health metrics, including step count, calories burned, sleep quality, Vo2 max and heart rate. As a ...

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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When I first started running, I always tried to aim to run at a fast pace, which constantly made me feel ...