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Heart Zones USA is the authentic and original heart-rate training system. Heart Zones create, develop, and apply the use of heart rate data and monitors for health, fitness, and enhanced performance. Heart Zones has spent the last 15 years creating systems and programs for individuals and organizations, and specialty applications for weight management, emotional fitness training, swim-bike-run training, schools, hospitals, and much, much more. If you want to achieve optimum health…
If you want to be on the leading edge of sports performance…
If you want to learn more about emotional, physical, and metabolic fitness…
If you want to be ahead of others in your field or sport…
then Heart Zones is for you.
If you apply the Heart Zones training system you will quickly discover that you have more energy and less stress, and you will get in touch with the most important muscle in your body – your heart.
About The Heart Zones® Training System
What is the Heart Zones Training System?
We say, “The Heart Zones Training system uses your personal cardiac training ranges to define your individual training program for optimum health, emotional fitness, and high performance.” But what does that mean? Let’s take it step by step.
Heart Zones Training is based on science, research, experience, and the precept that there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all, universal training program. Rather, to be effective, exercise must be tailored to fit each of us.
And that’s just what Heart Zones Training provides—a completely personalized exercise program that works for anyone, of any age, of any current fitness level, performing any activities.
It works for a 20-year-old professional athlete, a 70-year-old wanting to improve strength, a 30-year-old who has never been fit, a 55-year-old fighting fat, or a 40-year-old who has become sedentary.
How can Heart Zones Training provide personal training programs for everyone? By teaching you how to notice and respond to your own personal biofeedback device—your heartbeat. Whether you take your pulse manually or, for far better accuracy, use some sort of tool (ranging from an inexpensive heart rate monitor to a top-of-the-line distance-and-speed+heart rate system), either way you will be in tune with what truly matters for every aspect of your wellness—your heart.
So, Heart Zones Training is:
Heart
The most important muscle in your entire body. It should be treated that way. Heart Zones Training respects your heart and what it has to tell you, and we teach you how to systematically respond to your heart’s beats.
Zones
A zone is simply a range of heart beats, what we sometimes call a cardiac training range. When you get an accurate idea of your heart zones and what each has to do with your wellbeing, you are ready for the next piece of the system: training.
Training
Training is not just exercising. It’s exercising with a system and a plan in order to achieve a goal. Heart Zones Training is a method of training smarter—more efficiently and more effectively—by training with heart.
And, finally, from Heart Zones Training founder and CEO, Sally Edwards:
Physical activity must fit you as an individual and so must your heart zones. I'm convinced and so are thousands of others who train using this heart-based approach that it will lead to the integration of your mind, your body, and your spirit into a wellness exercise program that works. You'll begin to see positive benefits as you feel more energy with less stress. I predict you'll also feel a real boost to your self-esteem that will make it fun to keep going. Train with your smart heart and your monitor in the five heart zones to maximize your time and your results.
Sally Edwards Biography
Sally Edwards is the "Head Heart" and the founder and CEO of Heart Zones.
A former Master's World Record holder in the Ironman Triathlon, as well as a World Record Holder in the Iditashoe 100-Mile Snowshoe Race, Sally has spent the last 30+ years as a professional athlete. She has competed in some of the hardest races on the planet, including numerous multi-day adventure races and the Western States 100-Mile Run (which she won).
From the time she ran the 1984 Olympic Marathon Trials using her heart rate monitor, Sally has been at the forefront of a revolution in fitness training. Never one to trust in guesswork, Sally combined her Master's degree in exercise physiology with her experience as a professional athlete and created the Heart Zones Training System.
A founder of the sport of triathlon (and a Triathlon Hall of Fame inductee), most of Sally's recent races have been performed in her role as the National Spokeswoman for the Danskin Triathlon Series. Sally has finished every Danskin Triathlon (as of 2005, sixteen years worth) dead last, as the "Final Finisher," inspiring more than 100,000 other women to make it across the finish line in front of her. The year 2004 marked her 100th last-place Danskin finish in Denver, Colorado on July the 17th.
A prolific author of more than 20 books and 300 articles on fitness and sports, a motivational keynote speaker, and (with a second Master's degree in Business Administration) an entrepreneur, Sally is committed to helping others improve their health, fitness, and finish by listening to their hearts.
Sally lives in Sacramento, California.
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