Training with the Heart Rate Monitor

Since it has been possible to wear a heart rate monitor on your wrist, nearly everyone has been able to monitor and control their training load and intensity, for these small gadgets provide accurate biofeedback. Monitors have made rapid advances in recent years. As well as accurately measuring heart rate, they can now be used to run tests to determine individual training zones, fitness or stress levels. There are also many programs that are able to structure training more effectively. But how can one find and use such a gadget for one's personal goals? How should an endurance, therapeutic or cardiac rehabilitation workout best be structured? The book gives competent answers to all the questions you may have concerning training with a heart rate monitor. It aims to make you more autonomous so that you can plan your own training.

Kuno Hottenrott is the Director of the Institute of Sports Science at the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Back in 1985, he carried out scientific studies on the first heart rate monitors from Finland at the University of Kassel. He has produced countless publications on endurance sports. Professor Hottenrott is himself an active endurance athlete with a personal marathon record of 2 hours 36 minutes.