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Review — The Athlete’s Guide to Yoga (DVD)

The Athlete’s Guide to Yoga – A Personalized Practice for Strength, Flexibility, and Focus
featuring Sage Rountree
Endurance Films, 120 min, 2008

This is the companion DVD to the excellent book The Athlete’s Guide to Yoga by Sage Rountree. Sage Rountree is an endurance athlete, racing triathlons up to half-Ironman, and a registered yoga teacher. In this [...]

4 reasons to use a heart rate monitor (HRM)

In the last post we showed you a few top notch heart rate monitors. In this post we are going to discuss some reasons for using a HRM anyway.

Measurement of intensity

The main function of a HRM is of course to measure the heart rate. It is well known, that with higher intensities the heart rate [...]

Heart rate monitors (HRM) and triathlon training

I suppose you have all heard of heart rate monitors. This will be a series of posts about this subject. The discussion will be about:

what HRMs are really good for triathlon race/training?

why do you want to use a HRM anyway?

what do the HRM really do?

benefits of training with a HRM

what’s not good with the HRMs

other [...]

  
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