Suunto ZoneSense
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@halajos said in Suunto ZoneSense:
@thanasis your Z4 minimum is set manually in the HR zones settings, while the aerobic threshold is measured by ZoneSense. Probably you need to adjust your zones.
thank you . however i am not sure what should i do considering that the minimum Z3 according to Zonsense is supposed to be higher than the minimum Z4 .
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@thanasis You obviously need to increase zone 4 and zone 5 limits. How confident are you about what you have set as max Hr?
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@thanasis I had much the same last Sunday, and my zone 2/3 boundary is similar to yours.
Usually my aerobic threshold ranges from as low as 120bpm to upper 130s - at no point has it ever gone up to 156bpm, and I wonder if it struggled with the specific workout type I did, which was a gentle warmup, some strides, and then 12x 3:30 with 1:30 breaks.
You can see that it enters the VO2 threshold at around 163bpm repeatedly, and obviously it enters Anaerobic when I’ve already been at a high HR for the previous couple of minutes, hence pegging the aerobic limit as being so high I guess. Food for thought anyway, most likely ZS can’t cope with intervals being so short as per the documentation.
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@thanasis said in Suunto ZoneSense:
@halajos said in Suunto ZoneSense:
@thanasis your Z4 minimum is set manually in the HR zones settings, while the aerobic threshold is measured by ZoneSense. Probably you need to adjust your zones.
thank you . however i am not sure what should i do considering that the minimum Z3 according to Zonsense is supposed to be higher than the minimum Z4 .
I have similar ZS results and our HR zones are very similar too. I am leaving my zones where I feel comfortable with and essentially not worrying about them! They are arbitrary anyway! Even a lab measured LT test is going to vary depending on your fitness, recovery, fatigue and stress the day you are tested. I believe that ZS is giving me an accurate representation of my effort based on 16 years of running ultras. I will likely never adjust my zones again and essentially ignore them.
My interval efforts are based on RPE anyway and now long runs and recovery runs will use ZS. So it doesn’t matter if my LT is 120 bpm one day and 148 on another day. This is the reason to use ZS!
