MIS and Heartrate

[samanthaeve]

Has anyone else experienced being in your THRZ while doing MIS?
This is what has been happening when I do this tape, and I was wondering if I could count it as a cardio?
The leg section alone gets me up there, and I maintain a low level in my HRZ , but a cardio level none the less...
This workout stuff gets more and more difficult to figure out the more I look at the HRM and read into what it's saying back to me!
But I am mostly curious to see if anyone else experienced this while doing MIS.. oh, and it's not EVERYTIME I do the tape, but more often than not, I am in the same HRZ as when I do a Firm classic tape..
Any info would be appreciated!

 

[kellyeli]

Yep, me too!

Hi Samantha! (That's my daughter's name!) My heartrate goes up fairly decently while doing the leg portion of MIS and also the standing leg part of PS SLA. Although I don't use a heart rate monitor, I know I sweat much more profusely than in an upper body workout and I am frequently breathing harder. I don't count these workouts as cardio, I just think of the elevated heart rate as an added bonus to my weight workouts! Have fun!

Elizabeth Kelly

 

[bkloots]

HRM during weight work

Hi, Samantha. I recently purchased a heart rate monitor, and asked some questions over at the videofitness forum about using it during weight work as opposed to cardio work.

Knowledgeable people there told me that the HRM is designed only to measure and improve cardio (aerobic) performance. When you are lifting weights, your heartrate does indeed go up, but your body is functioning in an anaerobic capacity. In other words, the type of exertion is different, and does not contribute to your aerobic endurance capacity. This is a very inadequate explanation! But, in a nutshell, it's apples and oranges!

This has nothing to do with the amount of calories you use, only with the kind of performance improvements you can measure with your HRM.

In that same discussion, even the experts seemed to think that FIRM tapes are in a "gray area." They claim to accomplish both strength and endurance goals simultaneously. Using light weights and moving quickly from one exercise to another may very well have a unique outcome.

In the end, each of us is just an ongoing experiment of one! But use your HRM mainly for checking your cardio zones.

 

[Joyce Thurman]

Thanks for that information!

I have wondered the same thing. My heart rate just seems to soar when doing the legs part of MIS and SLA. Now I know it's not really training my heart in an aerobic way.