which is why in inexpensive heart rate montior would be helpful. You can get a Polar for $25. Well worth the investment.
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07-11-2006, 01:58 PM #1
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07-13-2006, 04:02 AM #2
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Overtrained?
Ditto on the HRM - although I've never had good luck with Polar.
Originally Posted by bcipam
Are you overtrained? It sounds like you've been hitting it hard all season. When was your last week off?
When I'm overtrained, my recovery is the pits and difficult cycling really suffers. I take a week of easy cycling/more days off.To train a dog, you must be more interesting than dirt.
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07-14-2006, 01:10 PM #3
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Don't forget to get your iron checked, too. Heavy exercise (especially endurance, but even just lots of shorter hard rides) can deplete iron stores. Even if you don't have full-blown anemia, just a subclinical "low iron" condition, you may still experience performance degradation, fatigue, inability to deliver enough oxygen to your muscles feeling out of breath, etc.
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