Cycling Training, Tips & Motivation

Whether you like road cycling, indoor cycling or mountain biking, we share your passion. Heart Zones, Inc is all about cross training and we love cycling! Find what you need to know about cycling here for training, racing, technique and much more.

Cycling Training, Tips & Motivation

Metabolic Fitness & Eating for It

February 11, 2018

METABOLIC FITNESS Avoid the numbers on your bathroom scale and pay attention, instead, to the numbers that mean the most: your cholesterol, your blood pressure and your insulin sensitivity. Those numbers reflect metabolic fitness. Metabolism includes all of your body’s energy activities, the chemical reactions and processes that occur every second of your life to…

You Can Be Fat AND Fit

February 4, 2018

You Can Be Fat AND Fit ARE YOU A GREYHOUND OR A ST. BERNARD? If you have always been a little fat, yet you’ve cared for the three basic aspects of your health – physical, emotional/mental, and metabolic – then consider your specific biological makeup, your inherited genetics, and your individual physiology. Our genetic…

Heart Zones Weight Loss Program

January 28, 2018

You don’t have to be thin to be healthy. You don’t have to be thin to be fit. You don’t have to be thin. If your genetic heritage, body type, and metabolism make you susceptible to gaining weight very easily, don’t feel bad. You could be one of evolution’s triumphs, successes. In prehistoric times, the…

Recovery: The Trunk, Not a Branch

January 18, 2018

Recovery period is one of the least understood and appreciated parts of the training tree, yet it is a critical part of your training phases or periods. (This recovery period is not to be confused with weekly recovery days where you may workout 5 days a week and recover for 2 days. It is also not…

Branch 5: Racing

January 11, 2018

Racing is a very tenacious branch. It’s as much psychological as it is physical. The demands are arduous because it requires constant testing, usually against other athletes as well as against your own goals and that great truth-teller – the clock. It requires constant recuperation and resting, too. I’ve been asked more times than I can…

Branch 4: Speed Branch

January 4, 2018

This period of training is a favorite for many athletes. The peaking phase is the time when you put all of the other branches together into one: endurance, strength, and intervals. It is the variety branch. It is the time when you are incredibly fit and loving it. It’s the time when you get to…

Branch 3: Speed Branch

December 28, 2017

If you want to race fast, train fast and train strong. This is the phase that builds upon the lower three branches by adding your first Red Line workouts with short or endurance intervals. It’s the branch where you start time trials at specific heart rate points to test improvement. It’s the period of seeing…