Vance in AK
WKR
So I'm just starting to get back in shape for mountain hunting. Background: 59 years old in a couple weeks. 5'6 ish & currently 199.5#. Football player type build (But yes plenty of belly) Started Sept 2018 @ 229 so I have made progress.
Sept-Oct 18 lots of treadmill time & a little strength training. the last couple months back at the treadmill heavy & a little strength training. Want to start ramping up the lifting. First concern has been cardio for a mid May backpack bear hunt thus heavy treadmill use.
My regular treadmill plan is complicated (NOT). Put on 30# pack. 5 min of warmup at 7% grade & 3.8mph. Reset machine, put incline at max (15%), set mph for 4. After 5 min go to 4.2 mph, then at 10 min go to 4.3. At 30 min go to 4.4. Some days at 50 min I am up to 4.7mph. I go a minimum of an hour before cool down all at max incline & with the pack.
Using the Samsung health app on my phone I bagan sort of tracking my heart rate & O2 saturation. My resting hreart rate is between 49 & 54.
It takes me almost 30 min on the tmill to get heart rate into into the mid 130s. Here is yesterdays trends on O2 with pulse at the time.
This is starting about 30 min in & ends with cool down
Resting O2 97%
137bpm 93% (1103am)
143bpm 92% (11:13am)
149bpm 93% (11:30am. End of hard work)
128bpm 95% (11:322am. 2 min into cooldown)
101bpm 96% (11:34am)
Time 1 hour Avg speed 4.2, miles 4.2, elevation gain 3324' (Plus cooldown)
I had to take a 20 min break after cool down for phone call then did 10 min (36 floors on stair climber with same pack. Heart rate at end of 10 min was 130. Didn't ck O2.
Does this bit of info tell anyone anything that might help me focus my training on the cardio end?
Thanks!
Sept-Oct 18 lots of treadmill time & a little strength training. the last couple months back at the treadmill heavy & a little strength training. Want to start ramping up the lifting. First concern has been cardio for a mid May backpack bear hunt thus heavy treadmill use.
My regular treadmill plan is complicated (NOT). Put on 30# pack. 5 min of warmup at 7% grade & 3.8mph. Reset machine, put incline at max (15%), set mph for 4. After 5 min go to 4.2 mph, then at 10 min go to 4.3. At 30 min go to 4.4. Some days at 50 min I am up to 4.7mph. I go a minimum of an hour before cool down all at max incline & with the pack.
Using the Samsung health app on my phone I bagan sort of tracking my heart rate & O2 saturation. My resting hreart rate is between 49 & 54.
It takes me almost 30 min on the tmill to get heart rate into into the mid 130s. Here is yesterdays trends on O2 with pulse at the time.
This is starting about 30 min in & ends with cool down
Resting O2 97%
137bpm 93% (1103am)
143bpm 92% (11:13am)
149bpm 93% (11:30am. End of hard work)
128bpm 95% (11:322am. 2 min into cooldown)
101bpm 96% (11:34am)
Time 1 hour Avg speed 4.2, miles 4.2, elevation gain 3324' (Plus cooldown)
I had to take a 20 min break after cool down for phone call then did 10 min (36 floors on stair climber with same pack. Heart rate at end of 10 min was 130. Didn't ck O2.
Does this bit of info tell anyone anything that might help me focus my training on the cardio end?
Thanks!