The importance of monitoring heart rhythm during internal cycle training

Most of the time, people have set a clear goal when they start practicing internal cycling.

Other times, however, this goal is quite vague and unclear, due to the lack of necessary information.

To be able to set a clear goal, we must know first of all the main advantages that this sport offers us, that is to say:

• Decrease or maintain the weight and / or size of the body;
• Definition, remodeling and muscle toning;
• Modification of the body composition (decrease in the percentage of fat and increase in the percentage of muscle mass);
• Fight or improve cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and obesity by lowering blood sugar, cholesterol and triglyceride;
• Improve well -being, general tone and reduction of stress;
• Improve the health of the heart and lung;
• Strengthen the bone system due to the increase in bone resistance;
• By increasing the stability of the body and the health of the joints, due to the strengthening of the muscles, ligaments and tendons;
• Increase body resistance to effort;
• Maintain or increase the level of physical fitness;
• Development of specific muscle resistance;
• Increase in immunity to muscle fever, due to the increase in body resistance in the presence of lactic acid and effort in partial absence of oxygen;
• Maintain or increase the competitive level, in the cold season, for performance athletes.

These benefits of internal cycling are the basis for setting their health objectives relating to this sport.

Once the clarified objectives, indoor cycling training will help us discover our body behavior, better understand its way of working and in the same way, we will discover unknown limits and tear the myths we have heard of.

The Schwinn internal cycling discipline is structured on different types of training, details here.

Personal objectives, from the list of the above, can be achieved by mainly alternating some types of training in this discipline. The best recommendations for training periods that take into account the objectives, can be obtained by advice on your internal cycling instructor.

All these types of training are based on two essential parameters: the impulse (measured in % of the cardiac frequency or HRR – cardiac frequency reserve) and the pedal cadence (the rotation speed of the pedal or the frequency of the pedal, measured in the RPM rotations per minute).

It is essential to understand that during training the impulse can be modified with the ride, by the loading of pedaling (translated by the number of resistors added), as well as by the pedaling techniques used: seats (seats in șea) or standing (high in pedals).

Since the cadence of pedaling is dictated by the rhythm of music, at theoretical level, the other two variables are available to maintain the impulse in the predetermined area: the number of resistors and the technique used.

I say “theoretically”, because only a part of the participants in the training for indoor cycling respects the cadence during them, and are generally people who like to dance. The other category is either without the sense of rhythm (without looking at this fact), or simply feels better pedaling at its rhythm, which is again ok, if this makes them feel good. Let’s not forget that well -being can be a goal in itself for which some people choose to practice internal cycling.

On the other hand, the basic rule after that relating to the safety of the participants is that they always have lighter variants when they feel they cannot face the training:

• Settle if they are standing;
• To reduce the number of resistance if they are sitting.

In conclusion, taking into account everything above, the main way to regulate the impulse and keep it in the destination interval, the intensity of work, controlled by the resistance button remains.

But the question is: how can I know exactly what is the value of my impulse during training without having a tool to indicate it? Answer: I can’t J.

Although a well -prepared indoor cycling instructor will know what to hear when you train at various levels of effort intensity, however, perceptions can be very different from person to person. Consequently, the best way to determine the intensity of the effort remains a tool that measures the impulse during training.

Without going into details, I will only tell you that this device can be a fitness bracelet, a dedicated sport or a smartwatch watch or a chest impulse or arm impulse, capable of synchronization with a specific mobile application.

These tools will indicate cardiac frequency or heart rate in the BPM (beat per minute) during the training information that you can use to discover how close to the range of impulses and implicitly to the objective you have fixed.

For this reason, all your internal cycling instructor will be able to provide you with a correspondence table between the BPM and the percentage of the impulse reserve (%HRR – heart rate reserve).

In conclusion, using one of the above cardiac monitoring methods, you will be able to achieve the goal of health and movement proposed in a very and easily way.

Otherwise you will have to be satisfied only with the pleasure of pedaling, without being able to determine the measure in which you managed to fall into the profiles of your workouts and implicitly without being able to evaluate your progress in the proposed objective.

The training without cardiac monitoring is like driving a car without any indication on board: you only know that you are moving, but you will not know how you go the speed, while you get to your destination, when you risk overheating your engine, but what is the fuel consumption.

I hope that the above has helped you to clarify and decide to start training at the next level. You will therefore have the opportunity to monitor your performance, to correct your deviations to the advice and then reach your final goal as soon as possible.