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Summary: This book answers your questions!
Review: As a traumatologist and interested in sports medicine I can tell you: this is the best book to answer your questions. It is comprehensive and gives a lot of tips that you can apply the training theory to your daily practice.
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Summary: This book answers your questions
Review: Being a traumatologist and involved with questions of sports medicine, I found most of my questions answered in this book in a very comprehensive and founded manner. It's the comprehensive manual for any user of a Heart Rate Monitor. It's really worth 5 stars.
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Summary: This is a practical,informative book based on research .
Review: Ed Burke, Colorado's most noted exercise physiologist and a professor at the University of Colorado has written another great book. Ed has been a professor for over two decades and a respected author as well. He hasn't traumatized his own body--like traumatizing means engaging in the eco-challenge, 100 mile runs and other dance until you die events. I think most people want to be fit and have fun. Fun is what Burke is all about.
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Summary: A traumatolgist is....
Review: For the "reader" below--whom I assume is really Sally Edwards--a book competitor--a traumatologist is someone who studies trauma! The Denver Post recently did a wonderful story on Ed Burke and the host of books he has authored unlike Edwards who does not write hers--and how Ed makes learning fun and informative! She should take time reading it....instead of globetrotting.
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Summary: The book had some good information
Review: Given some of the less-than-favourable reviews here I thought I was going to find an average, if not hum-drum book. I was very pleasantly surprised! This is a great book, very detailed with good descriptions of the Karvonon method of calculating HRR (Heart Rate Reserve) and its correlation to VO2 Max and Net VO2 and how to use this information to determine appropriate training zones. It had some good sections on various other fitness activities (such as cycling, swimming and walking) and serves as a good resource for anyone wanting to get fit faster while lowering your chances of injury or overtrainig.I think if you combined this book with "Heart Rate Monitor Training for the Compleat Idiot" you'd posses all the information you'd ever need to train to maximum effectiveness with your heart rate monitor.
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Summary: Informative, detailed and chock full of information
Review: Given some of the less-than-favourable reviews here I thought I was going to find an average, if not hum-drum book. I was very pleasantly surprised! This is a great book, very detailed with good descriptions of the Karvonon method of calculating HRR (Heart Rate Reserve) and its correlation to VO2 Max and Net VO2 and how to use this information to determine appropriate training zones. It had some good sections on various other fitness activities (such as cycling, swimming and walking) and serves as a good resource for anyone wanting to get fit faster while lowering your chances of injury or overtrainig. I think if you combined this book with "Heart Rate Monitor Training for the Compleat Idiot" you'd posses all the information you'd ever need to train to maximum effectiveness with your heart rate monitor.
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Summary: I never really incorporated this book into my workouts
Review: I didn't get much out of this book. I haven't incorporated this book into my workouts because it seems too overwhelming.
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Summary: The book that finally got me running successfully.
Review: I do inline skating, skiing, and weight training, but every time I tried to take up running, I would hit a wall. I just couldn't run for long sessions, and after a few I would hurt something and give up. Then I read about Ed Burke in Outside. This book, along with Burke's "Optimal Muscle Recovery" (I tore an Achilles tendon and developed plantar fascitis from skating and skiing) and "Stretching" finally got me to understand that I wasn't building the base I needed in order to run better. By following the training programs in this book, I've greatly increased my capacity without injury, and am slowly seeing my speed increase. Also liked this book because it took a different approach for each covered sport, and it treated inline skating with the respect it deserves as an endurance activity.
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Summary: Great book for heart rate training!
Review: I found this book extremely helpful and don't feel the criticisms of the review below warranted. Ed makes learning fun!
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Summary: The book had some good information
Review: I had bought the book to help me with Mtn. bike training and my son with running. The book didn't provide information for mtn. biking though it did have a section on road biking. The running chapter seemed incomplete. The major table that was supposed to explain the heart rate targets was not explained fully. Also, oddly, there is a quote in there that is identical in two chapters but attritubted to two different people! In summary, I was disappointed with the book but it may be helpful to someone else.
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