The Heart Rate Monitor Book for Outdoor and Indoor Cyclists: A Heart Zone Training Program

by Sally Edwards, Sally Reed

Overview

Two fitness experts team up to show cyclists how to optimize training by incorporating heart rate monitoring into their workouts. Provided are 25 workouts at three training levels; a heart rate chart showing the five zones athletes should target; information on indoor bikes and trainers; and a sample log book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781931382045
Publisher:	VeloPress
Publication date:	06/28/2002
Edition description:	2ND
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.08(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Edwards has raced for 30 years and won the women's divisions at the 1997 RAAM (Race Across America) and the Western States 100 Miler, and formerly held the master's world record at the Ironman Triathlon and the Iditashoe 100 Mile snowshoe race. She is a professional triathlete, having finished all 55 of the Danskin Triathlons over the past 10 years, and serves as the national spokesperson for the event. She has had top finishes at the Eco-Challenge Adventure Race, the Outdoor Quest in China, and the Olympic Marathon trials. She is a professional speaker who gives speeches on both fitness and success in life to audiences around the world.

Reed is the athletic director of the Bellevue Club, a large multipurpose club and hotel in Bellevue, Washington, and the creator of the training system used in the Heart Zones Cycling series. For the past three years, she has traveled around the country writing, speaking, and teaching workshops at camps, seminars, and programs on Heart Zones Cycling. She has written more than 100 workouts, three manuals, including an intructor's manual for the Heart Zones Cycling training program, and has led seminars and workshops as the founder, master trainer, and spokesperson for Heart Zones Cycling.