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Well you've got HIIT as a marketing term, with overinflated calorie expenditure and relatively straightforward activities, or there's true HIIT that's part of a wider training plan and complements Long Steady Duration sessions, tempo sessions and intervals sessions. True HIIT has a very limited utility, it's used to…
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Personally I'd recommend Garmin devices. Fitbits just don't have the same technical quality. I use a Forerunner 735XT Triathlon watch.
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When you're talking about variation in running pace, the contribution is dwarfed by running mechanics and body mass. For the purposes of this question pace isn't relevant.
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Tbh I'd approach it in a similar way to ultra training; regular long back to backs. It gets you far more used to running fatigued and high volume without the stress. So, possibly use a 50k plan to train for the marathon.
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Back to back longs are a staple of ultra training. As long as you feel comfortable there's nothing inherently difficult about it.
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I wouldn't overthink it. For the first four weeks just use the walking calculation, after that use the running. While there is an error, in the grand scheme of things it's negligible.
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This
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Personally rather than stretching the speed plan I'd have worked up to a 10mi long run in the first phase, them done speed concentration in the second phase. Two sided sessions per week plus a long is quite debilitating in the long term, albeit short distances. As a plan there's nothing fundamentally wrong with it, it's a…
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Personally I'd suggest using a plan like Couch to 5K to help you develop the capacity to run continuously. If I'm treadmilling I can watch a video whilst running at about a 10 minute mile quite comfortably.
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Not particularly. For a long steady run in conscious of maintaining below about 150bpm. If I start getting significantly above that I'll gas out after an hour. It's about recognising how physiology adapts and serves as an indicator of performance rather than anything else. If I'm doing sprint training I don't have…
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That's not enough water for hyponatremia. It sounds like underfueled and perhaps a higher intensity than usual.
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Accurate for what? Accurate in measurement, to be honest there's not much in it. Accurate in extrapolating other data? Depends what you want to extrapolate and what activities you do.
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In that case, you're really after the cheapest possible option as the data accuracy and utility is pretty questionable. The Wahoo Tickr variants should work with your phone.
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Negligible, you're not really moving much mass around.
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What sort of activity are you intending on using it for?
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Your other option is designing your training to back to back at weekends. That's a fairly well established method for marathon and ultra training.
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That's fine. But why? In the grand scheme of things VO2Max is pretty meaningless as a metric. If yoou focus on Resting Heart Rate reduction you'll see more value. fwiw if you're wanting to improve your VO2Max I'd start with perhaps 5 CV sessions per week, aiming for all of them to get to 60 minutes of steady state effort.…
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Two questions. How are you measuring that and what's your reason for improvement? It's entirely possible to improve it, but it's not easy and it doesn't last long. That work is the kind of thing to do just before a goal race, as the improvements won't stick for much more than eight weeks or so, then it'll subside again.
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The issue would be the "High Intensity" aspect.
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I've got a 12hour event in May, but I'll probably limit myself to 50K. I've then got a marathon in June, although this one normally runs to about 28mi. A half in August and a marathon in September. I might do another marathon in October, I'm undecided. It's one that I can wait to enter, it closes about a week before the…
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I'd be interested to read the articles that support that. The vast majority of credible material disagrees.
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What's your current pace and target distance, and how do you structure your runs? As in, are you asking at improving 5K, 10K, HM? How much running volume do you do in a week already?
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What are you trying to measure accurately, and in what context? Do you mean for 24/7 tracking or only during exercise? What sort of exercise do you do?
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At the moment, only a 12 hour event in May. Possibly a Half the following day as well, but I'm undecided at the moment.
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In that case, cycling or swimming. Reducing 5K time depends on your current mileage and how that's split up over the week.
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Thanks, that's helpful. In practice that's more than enough to see improvement over time. Complicating issues are your current rate of weight loss, that means that at the moment your HR isn't all that consistent. Just give it time.
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Increasing endurance is driven by your running volume. With cross training, it's about understanding what you're wanting to achieve from it; injury resilience, improved or sustained CV, helping running form, balance?
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100 minutes of walking is a lot. Is that directed exercise or just a consequence of lifestyle? In practice, as you improve your fitness your RHR will reduce.