Customer Reviews
Confusing and, in places, just wrong - By: R. Lyon, 25 Jun 2005 
I bought this book when I got my Heart Rate Monitor. One simple example illustrates this book's fundamental failure: "Hard Day - run 15-30 minutes at 65-75% effort". "Moderate Day - run 20-40 minutes at 75-80% effort". That's right - run harder for longer on easier days! With that howling editorial failure, none of the rest of the material can be trusted.
Jack of all trades, master of none - By: R. Lyon, 18 May 2003 
I bought a heat rate monitor & needed some advice on how to use it effectively, so turned to this. I mountain bike - but the cycling section refers exclusively to the spray-on lycra brigade & their peculiar regimes. I run - but the running section contained flat out contradictions (e.g. "training plan phase I: hard day, run 30 minutes at 75% effort; moderate day, run 40 minutes at 80% effort").
Look elsewhere - there are plenty of titles.
Good book for training - By: , 12 Sep 2001 
I used this book to set up my training routines. I don't really understand the comments about the book being "too technical". Training & setting up routines is a technical subject. Setting your max heart rate & lactate thresholds is pretty tricky but once I'd taken the time to do that my performance improved no end working with the workout suggestions.
Excellent reference source - By: , 05 Dec 1999 I am currently studying A Level PE & BTEC Sports Science, & found this book to be invaluable to my course. If you have anything to do with fitness trainin programmes you need this book.
An In-depth book for the serious. - By: , 11 Jun 1999 It is a very good book if you are interestedin the theory of heart rate training. I found it overwhelming (as another reader did)in that it was a little too technical. I don't like the way there are different authors to different sports. I have to agree that it is written towards Polar but does not that matter when the book has so many other things to offer. This is a good book but just wasn't the sort of book that I was looking for. I am a fitness fanatic not a runner or inline skater or triathlete!!
