@thanasis said in Suunto ZoneSense:
i also want to rely on zonesense but i really struggle to understand how is it possible when going uphill , with over 170Bpm for some minutes the app to be showing i am in the green zone… In principle i am excited about relying on hr variability but am i harming myself by relying on it? that’s the big question for me
This is normal, because metabolically you are still in green. You do not enter/exit one zone only for changing a few HR beats. As you observe that at 170 bpm you do not go red immediately you will also observe that if you are red at the top of the hill, when you start to go down and your bpm are going down you are still in red for some time, because you are still not recovered metabolically. When you are going uphill, instead of reducing your pace try to keep the pace and continue pushing you will see that you will enter in red rapidly, or start the uphill at higher pace.
In my opinion, since the release of ZS, amateur runners we should do a test lab/medical check to see if your heart is healthy and there are no issues with it and then you can trust ZS for you training. Of course you have to use it correctly, do the warm up, do the first sessions slowly and use a good chest strap.
In order to use it properly, we should unlearn some things.
@thanasis said in Suunto ZoneSense:
If this hypothesis stands true, I (as an amateur, non scientifically trained user) cannot really make use of it.
On the contrary, you can use it more. The zones that it indicates are the real ones for that exercise/day and you do not need any expensive test lab.
In my opinion as a first approach ZS is pretty good and solid but Suunto should do a next step integrating ZS in the watch firmware and let you decide to work with the 5 zones or the ZS zones.
In my case, I use ZS from time to time because chest straps wound my chest if I use them continuously. So when I have a session that I want to be strict with the zones I use ZS and the days that I do not care I use an OHR armband.
