Fitness trackers and smartwatches can make it easier to stay in your heart rate training zones. (Getty Creative) Forget the guesswork — fitness just got easier to master. As fitness trackers grow in ...

Heart rate zones represent different percentages of your maximum heart rate. They can help guide the intensity and effectiveness of your workouts. The benefits of exercise are widespread and include ...

If the numbers your watch sets for zone 2 don’t track with what you’ve found your heart rate to typically be during truly ...

The target heart rate is how fast the heart should beat during physical activity. Calculating the target heart rate and comparing it with the actual heart rate can help a person work out if their ...

Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

Ideas about aerobic endurance training split the fitness world in two groups, those who prefer lifting and higher-intensity training and those who do more cardio training (run, swim, bike, etc.).

Over my decade of coaching and training, heart rate is one of the most overlooked factors in weight loss. While most people focus on adjusting their diet or trying the latest workout trend, I've found ...

Not that it was ever unpopular, but it’s fair to say that running is going through somewhat of a renaissance right now. Data released by Sport England in April of this year revealed that 250,000 more ...

What Does a High Resting Heart Rate Mean? The ups and downs of HRV can be so tricky to navigate, in fact, that most doctors, even cardiologists, don’t factor it into treatment plans for their patients ...

Runners usually talk in terms of threshold pace, but following your heart can also be a useful way of structuring your sessions. By David Smyth ‘Comfortably hard’ sounds a bit like a contradiction in ...

When I first started running, I always tried to aim to run at a fast pace, which constantly made me feel out of breath and exhausted. But then I learned to focus on a different metric that would make ...