Looking to purchase some heart rate monitors for my middle schools students (grades 5-8).
For those that use them, what do you have and would you recommend it at the middle school level?
FOr the PE teachers, what are you using in your classes and are you satisfied with it?
It would be nice to use a watch only to measure heart rate/ target heart rate for students. The district won't be able to dump a lot of money into it; maybe $1,500 but coould build on it each year.
Suggestions?
How many do you need to be in use at any given time?
HR monitors are very 1990's. How does a hrm tell you how fast you are going? Hrm tell you the heart still beats and that's about it.
Cinnamon's wrote:
HR monitors are very 1990's. How does a hrm tell you how fast you are going? Hrm tell you the heart still beats and that's about it.
How fast you are going isn't nearly as important as how hard you are going, which is what heart rate monitors measure.
We will agree to disagree. Ex: average hr for 5km 175; 10km 174; 15km 174. Average speed: 5km 5:00: 10km 5:07; 15km 5:25. MaxHR 192. My heart rate averaged ~90% but pace varied up to 25sec.
How much did the terrain vary?
Well. We have 4 teachers in teh building. My largest class is 40. I'd shoot for that within the first two years
Cinnamon:
We will agree to disagree. Ex: average hr for 5km 175; 10km 174; 15km 174. Average speed: 5km 5:00: 10km 5:07; 15km 5:25. MaxHR 192. My heart rate averaged ~90% but pace varied up to 25sec.
Cinnamon, your average HR for a 5k is bunk. (meaning: of NO value) What would be better is to know what you hit as a max DURING the 5k. My guess is you got to within 2-4 beats of max. If you didn't you were either slacking or underfueled.
So call your 5k HR 100%. Now work on paces as a percentage of 5k when training for 5k-15k.
an HRM can work wonders if you know how to use it...
Cinnamon's wrote:
We will agree to disagree. Ex: average hr for 5km 175; 10km 174; 15km 174. Average speed: 5km 5:00: 10km 5:07; 15km 5:25. MaxHR 192. My heart rate averaged ~90% but pace varied up to 25sec.
I'm in a similar boat. 5k: 183, 10k: 183 with last 5k at 187.
There are some hangups to hr training, one being lag time.
I nearly hit max hr of 192 on all three of those races. Correct AVERAGES (other # from memory), 5km 176; 10km 174; 15km 175. The shortest race I have data on is 2km average HR 181. So from 2km-15km my AVE HR 174-181 or 91.9%. Only over the last 20-25% of any of the races did my heart rates break from that average of ~176/min. Again HR. is not all that IMHO.
hrms rule wrote:
Cinnamon:We will agree to disagree. Ex: average hr for 5km 175; 10km 174; 15km 174. Average speed: 5km 5:00: 10km 5:07; 15km 5:25. MaxHR 192. My heart rate averaged ~90% but pace varied up to 25sec.
Cinnamon, your average HR for a 5k is bunk. (meaning: of NO value) What would be better is to know what you hit as a max DURING the 5k. My guess is you got to within 2-4 beats of max. If you didn't you were either slacking or underfueled.
So call your 5k HR 100%. Now work on paces as a percentage of 5k when training for 5k-15k.
an HRM can work wonders if you know how to use it...