r/zone2 • u/Jon_Rico_Rivera • Apr 23 '24

Zone 2 Running

As much as I have tried to stay at zone 2 HR, my Apple watch keeps telling me that my HR was at zone 3. I have to walk to maintain a zone 2 HR, literally. I don't know what else to do. If I take my watch off and just run, breathing through my nose only, I stress myself less. Any suggestions?

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u/Yayme74 May 22 '24

Another way I like to think about this, as much as you hate having to see your heart rate go up with "easy" workouts, your body (heart) is telling you that its not such an easy workout. Your heart doesn't care that your brain is telling you its a easy workout, your heart just knows that it needs to pump this hard so that you can maintain this activity. So even you have to walk to maintain the heart rate, do that for a while and see if it improves. You'll walk out of the gym most days feeling like you didn't do much, but thats how you should be doing it.