We hope that the advice and programme will be of great help with regards your new training regime, please use this graph as a reference to your training zones. There are two ways of working out your maximum heart rate, the first for a trained person, the second for the untrained person. Whichever category you fall into the percentage heart rate graph is a helpful reminder as to where you need to be. Training Zones - An Easy Reference Guide Training zones have been developed to help intensity prescription based on exercising heart rate and goals to be achieved. In terms of fitness training, exercising in this zone will lead to aerobic capacity, endurance and VO2max improvements.
Anaerobic respiration is necessary above the anaerobic threshold.
In endurance trained exercisers the anaerobic threshold is higher than the untrained.