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jschoombie on January 9, 2020 at 11:03 pm · in reply to: HR Drift Test and Threshold Notification Discrepancy #35878

Hey Scott,
I just attempted the AnT test and after a 15min warm up was only able to complete an additional 15min of the test before having to stop due to feeling like death was immanent (I’m probably exaggerating here…).

Looking back now I probably shouldn’t have attempted the test as although I felt 100% I did have a 24hour stomach bug earlier in the week that may have limited my ability to complete the test successfully.

Analyzing the 15min of data I do have, my average heart rate was 173bpm.

I think it would be best to wait a week or so and re-attempt. In saying that, I felt it was more my muscular endurance that was the limiting factor at being able to continue the test not my breathing.

Would it make sense to adjust the treadmill to 10% to reflect the gradient used during the AeT test?

Pacing wise, in your opinion is there a target heart rate you feel I should try to hit at the start of the AnT test? I feel like my AeT and AnT may be very close.

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jschoombie on January 6, 2020 at 12:44 pm · in reply to: HR Drift Test and Threshold Notification Discrepancy #35562

Hi Scott,
Thanks for the replies – I am about to do the AnT test – with the holiday’s etc my schedule was a bit messed up so I thought I’d do the AeT test and then get the AnT test done soon after.

Other than the above, I have previously done two AeT drift tests:

Test One

Date: 7th of January, 2019
First Half Average: 148bpm
Second Half Average: 157bpm
% Diff: 6.08%

I set the top of my zone 2 at 142bpm.

Test Two

Date: 5th of August, 2019
First Half Average: 158bpm
Second Half Average: 165bpm
% Diff: 4.4%

I set the top of my zone 2 at 154bpm.

Regarding your second question, at the start of the most recent test the 170 was moderate. Towards the end I was having to work very hard and was bloody glad for the test to be over. It was much harder than the previous tests. I can’t say I am looking forward to the AnT test.

Regarding the use of HRtss vs Rtss I always though it was advised to stick to one only, it makes sense though to distinguish between the flattish road runs and the trail runs. I’ll start doing this.

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jschoombie on May 14, 2019 at 4:35 pm · in reply to: Vertical climber machine #22014

*BUMP* for the gym specific ME workouts please. I have very limited access to hills mid week.

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jschoombie on January 7, 2019 at 12:24 pm · in reply to: Beginning the 24 week expeditionary plan #15785

Hey Axjms1,
Totally understand that you should be able to increase speed while staying in the lower heart rate zones. I can’t wait for this to happen as my speed is nothing but embarrassing right now.

For some reason however, I also thought that as you increased your aerobic capacity that zone three would shrink? Perhaps I misread that somewhere.

Cheers

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jschoombie on January 6, 2019 at 11:40 pm · in reply to: Beginning the 24 week expeditionary plan #15779

Hi Scott,
Thank you so much for the response – I think what I love about this community the most is that people like yourself take the time out to respond. Much appreciated!

I just completed the AeT and AnT test and have set my zones as follows:

Zone 1 Recovery: 120-134
Zone 2 AeT: 135-148
Zone 3 AnT 149-182
Zone 4 Hard: 183-200

It will be really interesting to see how things change over the coming 24 weeks. I am especially looking forward to seeing the top of zone two creep up so that my zone three isn’t so large.

Thanks again.