Suunto t3d manual Heart rate zones, Possible real life situation Staying in the zone

NOTE: The heart rate limits are displayed with dashes on the left outer rim of the display if the limits are activated.

Possible real life situation: Staying in the zone

You want to have a good, tough training session today, so you set your heart rate limits to equal your Zone 3 limits and turn the heart rate limit alarm on. Your Suunto heart rate monitor notifies you when you go too slow, or push too hard!

4.6.2 Heart rate zones

Training with heart rate monitors is traditionally based on heart rate zones. The intensity of your training is determined by the time you spend in each of three zones.

Heart rate zones are defined as percentages of your maximum heart rate. Zone training is an established training method, so there are pre-set defaults as follows:

●Zone 1 (60-70%): fitness zone; improves basic fitness and is good for weight control.

●Zone 2 (70-80%): aerobic zone; improves aerobic fitness and is good for endurance training.

●Zone 3 (80-90%): threshold zone; improves aerobic and anaerobic capacity and is good for improving peak performance.

If you are following a personal training program that uses zone training, enter the values defined by the program.

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