Tip 6 – Pulse Rate and Exercise Design

 

Once you have established the relationship between pace and pulse, you can create exercises which will keep you in the desired range.

 

Furthermore, you can also find the relationship between pace and the time it takes to recover to a certain pulse. This is useful when creating interval exercises.

 

As your conditioning improves, you will want to reestablish your pulse-pace graphs and adjust your exercises accordingly.

 

 

1  

Pulse vs. Pace

 

 

 

Set a slow pace, run 300 or 400 meters and measure your pulse. Repeat with slightly faster paces until you have a graph of pulse vs. pace.

 

 

2

Pace vs. Recovery Time

 

 

 

 

After you measure the first pulse, continue measuring pulse every minute or so. This will give you a graph of pulse vs. recovery time.