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john-3536 on July 28, 2020 at 3:59 pm · in reply to: Nasal Breathing for AeT Training #43932

Rather than buy a lactate meter and head down the gym to create a bloodbath on the treadmill and the newly erected protective acrylic screens! (which wouldn’t go down too well especially with the Covid situation) iv booked in to a local lab to have a Lactate Threshold Test.

I have explained my Afib situation and the person carrying out the test is ok with this and has said they will try and make sure we get some decent pace settings and RPE references going forward. They will also see if they can get some ball park heart rate figures to work with as well. The test is on a treadmill so I will still have to transfer this to outdoor running but all in all I’m excited to see if I can finally have some kind of guide to work from… I have also explained I am mainly interested in knowing my AeT rather than my LT but I will also get this done while I’m at it.

I will report back once these are completed just in case somebody else with Afib one day comes on here and reads this for reference if they are in a similar situation.

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john-3536 on July 18, 2020 at 7:06 am · in reply to: Nasal Breathing for AeT Training #43685

Thanks Scott. I saw my cardiologist last week so will get a note off him as that’s a good idea and hopefully stop everybody running for the mountains!! … and I don’t do cocktail parties so I’ll skip the VO2 test, although the last VO2 beep/pacer test I did I scored 10.5 so it wasn’t that bad.

The pace route gives me hope and something to measure my progression by as that’s all it’s about really for me knowing I’m progressing and staying within that magic AeT! My nutrition is easy to monitor it’s this blinking misfiring ticker that causes all the problems!

Sorry to ask another question but would a lactose tester be of any use to somebody like me as a measurement tool or does this again correlate back to heart rate?

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john-3536 on July 15, 2020 at 11:33 am · in reply to: Nasal Breathing for AeT Training #43625

Thanks, Slowing down has been a revelation, I love the energy I still have afterwards. I am running approx a 30 mile week at easy nose breathing pace but hard to gauge if that equates to zone 1 or zone 2 training Or if I’m running with ADS.

To be honest I didn’t think a lab test would work on me due to my heart rate readings being of no use to find The various thresholds etc.

Using pace benchmarks is a great idea, I will have to see if anywhere is willing to offer to test me out. As Afib is a ‘heart condition’ most people/places seem to freeze when asked for advice so I’ll have to see how this goes and if they’ll test me… My cardiologist says I’m fitter and healthier than most of the general population, its just getting good training info with this condition that’s hard.

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john-3536 on June 29, 2020 at 2:16 pm · in reply to: How to do base HR training with AF #43151

Thanks for your help Dada I will have a look on Garmin and see if there is anything there.

It’s so frustrating having to kind of guess or feel instinctively where I am up to all the time and not be able to accurately calculate what stage I am at from data like your heartbeat, its like being blind to your own heartbeat, most people don’t realise how lucky they are!

It also makes a lot of the newer books and websites on endurance training a lot harder to utilise properly due to nearly all the information, calculators and data collection mainly being directed towards a person’s performance based on your heartbeat. I find I have to rely more on older books and info from a time when they relied less on this and more on the body itself.

I suppose as I get more use to not relying on my heartbeat for guidance it should get easier to understand myself and how my body is behaving.