How can my heart rate monitor help me stay motivated to keep fit with the cooler weather and shorter days approaching?

Posted 22 October 2008

Your heart rate monitor is your key to motivation. Try a new workout that increases your intensity and shortens your exercise time. How do you stay motivated…? Change up the workout – make it shorter, make it harder, run up steps, run hills, do repeats. Observe your heart rate. Set heart rate goals for the harder workouts.

If the weather is too cold to be outside, go inside and try 3 different types of equipment. Try to keep your heart rate at the same level on all 3 pieces of equipment. Turn your cardio workout into circuit training. Hop on the treadmill for 15 minutes and hold your heart rate steady, then change to the elliptical machine and hold heart rate steady for 15 minutes. Switch to the bicycle and hold heart rate for 15 minutes. That’s a 45 minute cardio workout based on your target heart rate. See what you think – which one is harder at the same heart rate? Remember – to stay motivated you need to change up the routine. Use your heart rate monitor to make sure you’re getting the cardio benefits you’re looking for.

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