Last months edition of Workout discussed the Benefits of providing a fitness screening service to clients, noting how this type of a service enhances the quality of a facility. The key element for the client is that once the instructor knows the level of fitness they can best devise a program around the client's aims. One of the areas where most improvement can be made around program design is in cardiovascular intensity. It is therefore possible to program centre users, to exercise at an intensity they feel to be correct, and therefore have faith in the intensity of work. Not all individuals are able to accurately perceive their intensity of work, and therefore they would need to use a pulse meter.
Athletes often ask how to improve their results, and reduce their competition times.
The reason why endurance athletes perform at the pace they do, is because they have reached their capacity. This is determined by the efficiency of the heart lung and circulatory system. The heart rather like other muscles in the body, can be developed by training. Like strength training, short periods, of high heart rate intensity training increase strength. The heart muscle is critical to life and so correct monitoring, and health screening should be performed.