How to Set Your Heart Rate Zones
From Peaksware Help Center
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Setting Your Training Zones
Login to your account, open the Settings drop-down menu, then click on Zones.
- Heart Rate Zones
- Your heart rate intensity zones for cycling, running, and swimming can be automatically computed by entering your lactate threshold heart rate in the appropriate boxes. Once you have entered your lactate threshold heart rate click either the, "Compute" button to complete the calculations.
- Swim Pace Zones
- Swim pace zones are found in the Heart Rate Zones section as well, but they must be entered manually by the user.
- Manually Entering Heart Rate Zones
- Please note that you may enter what ever value you want for each zone, but it must match the format used by our system, as shown here:
Note- Be sure to hit the "Save" button before moving on to another page if you wish to save your zones.
- Power Zones
- For info on Power Zones, go to How to set Your Power Zones.
- How do I find my Lactate Threshold?
- To find your lactate threshold heart rate (LTHR) for either the bike or run complete a 30-minute time trial as follows:
- Find a course which is relatively flat. A track is perfect, if you have one available. Warm-up as you would before a short race and then begin the time trial. Start your heart rate monitor immediately. This should be one with an average heart rate mode. The effort of this time trial should be racelike--give it all you have. Ten minutes into the time trial (20 minutes to go) hit the 'lap' button on your heart rate monitor so that when you finish you have your average heart rate for the last 20 minutes. This number is an approximation of your LTHR. The more times you complete this test and observe your heart rate relative to breathing in workouts, the more refined your LTHR will become.
