I’m not sure why. It could be one or a combination of two things.
It’s my adductors, or inner-thighs/groin area, that are in pain. And I did a new excercise, a full set of leg lifts, that focused on this area (for biking) on Saturday. Sunday, it was a little tight, but I played paintball which meant several hard sprints and tons of squatting. Normally I’m not in this much pain, but with the extra endurance I have built up I was able to do more – sprint harder, squat longer -without fatigue. So combining these two exercises or events, my inner-thighs and groin area have been sore for two days.
I rested last night but am dying to go to the gym today.
Heart Rate Monitor
I got a new watch. An early Christmas gift from Chip! It’s a Timex Heart Rate Monitor (HRM) with 30 Lap splits, recover times and performance reviews. It’s great!
I have yet to use it during a workout but find it a very valuable training tool. Targeting certain ‘zones’ during a workout can either help target weight loss by burning calories where most of it is in fat or targeting higher training zones for endurance increasing lactate tolerance in order to fight fatigue better. If you workout to lose weight you need to burn more calories from fat which means you should maintain a heart rate within zone 1 or 2 burning calories of which 85% of it is from fat. This is 50-70% of your maximum heart rate. It would make no sense for higher intensity training when you want to lose weight because at zone 4, yes you burn more calories, but only 15% from fat.
When I’m doing a warm up for 30 minutes or so, I try to stay at zone 1 and 2 for fat burning. But my overall goal is endurance - which will help with Triathlons of course. This is the zone I like to train at which is 80-90% of my maximum heart rate.
A good website where I got this information from is here: The Walking Site
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