I am supposed to be getting over a cold that I was hit with after a great run on Monday. But my delivery arrived inbetween and I have been itching to get out there. I ordered a bluetooth 4 heartrate monitor to work with my iPod touch Pear Sport app. I didn't get the expensive one from the app I got another one.
The main reason for wanting this monitor is the app has a fat burning zone training session (app and training session are all free). What this would do, a trainer gives you instructions through your headphones whether you have to slow down or speed up in accordance with your heart rate.
So I set off today for a trial. 5 min warm up, 20 min zone 2 fat burn run. 5 min warm down.
I knew when I set off I would only do 10 min run as I wasn't really supposed to be out there.
It was great. I was running a such a pace that I could,actually breathe from my diaphragm. This kept me feeling a lot more chilled and made the run a lot easier and relaxed.
The upshot was the pace was only 0.50 of my usual time but I didn't feel like I had just run a marathon. So not that much slower.
I will defiantly be using it as a training tool in the future.
I have already downloaded the next two free training plans for fat burn.