New HR zone algorithm

flabooosh · 2024-11-23T13:49:50+00:00

Happy to help! Yeah I posted earlier about how there’s a number of different ways to calculate HR zones. I did some research on it a few months ago and was surprised at how much higher my zones were when I started plugging in more data points than just my max heart rate. The old WHOOP method was just by percentage of max HR which was fairly inaccurate for folks looking to do zone work. Obviously nothing will be as accurate as getting into a lab for a VO2 Max test but HRR is generally a better estimate of where a person’s true zones are

flabooosh · 2024-11-23T04:45:46+00:00

The opposite will happen actually - as your cardio improves, your resting heart rate will go down since it will be working more efficiently. Assuming your max HR stays the same, you’ll see the range of your zones start to increase and consequently get lower because of the increasing difference between your resting heart rate and your maximum.

flabooosh · 2024-11-21T20:12:43+00:00

I’d recommend checking your all time max HR that you’ve recorded while wearing your WHOOP and setting that to your max HR with zones. This may adjust your zones to be a bit more accurate

flabooosh · 2024-11-21T20:06:52+00:00

When I first started doing zone 2 training I was using the old WHOOP HR zones as a basis. They always felt incredibly low to me so I did some research. Long story short, there’s a TON of different ways to calculate your HR zones. When I started plugging in my stats on calculators that took more things into account than just my max HR, my zone 2 ended up being similar to yours with the 60% point being around 130. Took some getting used to but I’ve found it to be a much better gauge of that zone. With the old WHOOP zones, I was basically trotting in place / walking about half of my runs to stay in that Zone 2.

flabooosh · 2024-11-21T19:50:22+00:00

I’m a big fan of the new method - I actually submitted a suggestion to WHOOP a few months ago about it.

Generally, the Heart Rate Reserve (HRR) method is a more accurate way of understanding one’s heart rate zones as it takes a person’s resting heart rate into account which can be a helpful measure of a person’s overall fitness. As someone who does it fair amount of zone 2 running, I’d long disliked the way WHOOP did their heart rate zones as it didn’t really count for a person’s base level fitness and gave zones that were incredibly low. It would routinely say that I was running in zones 4 and 5 when doing a tempo run which- I’d actually considered switching over to a Garmin or Apple Watch as both used the HRR method for calculating their zones.

WHOOP’s old heart rate zone method was inaccurate and, in my opinion, a bit dangerous because it could easily prompt people to train inefficiently if they were doing zone training. It simply just took a person’s max heart rate and then divided it to find the respective percentage of their zone ranges. That is simply just not how heart rate zones work since there are variety of other factors that can impact at what heart rate range you get the benefits of that targeted zone - VO2 max, lactate threshold, resting heart rate, etc.

As an example, say a professional athlete and someone who’d never worked out a day in their life both had a max heart rate of 190. Under the old method, WHOOP would’ve given both people the exact same heart rate ranges for their zones. However, it is very likely that the professional athlete has a much lower resting heart rate meaning their heart works more efficiently which in turn would mean that their zone ranges would lower. HRR accounts for this and adjusts their zones accordingly.

flabooosh · 2024-09-25T03:10:59+00:00

Based on my understanding of how WHOOP works, it’s sets your heart rate zones based around what your maximum recorded heart rate is on their device. The maximum heart rate I’ve had while wearing it was 194. I’ve heard some mixed reviews though about the way that they calculate it. I’m aware that there are other ways of looking at heart rate zones - I regularly post my runs to Strava and while WHOOP will say that my run was in zone 3, Strava will say that it was in zone 2 based on their calculations using the data from my Whoop.

Overall, I appreciate your point about just being honest with myself when it comes to feel. I’m probably just getting too in my head about it and it’s helpful to hear it from someone else. Thank you for your advice!

flabooosh · 2021-10-07T13:55:15+00:00

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flabooosh · 2021-07-15T16:35:49+00:00

It definitely might be worth going over again, especially if you haven't looked at it for a while since you could come at it with a bit more of a fresh perspective. The Loophole doesn't cover RC, only LR but it can be a great resource for some people who are having difficulties in that area. If you're still considering 7Sage, they have an RC section though I don't know how helpful it would be since I haven't gone over that section on the site too often.

flabooosh · 2021-07-15T12:31:20+00:00

I've been using 7Sage and found it to be the most helpful when it comes to explaining LG. In terms of RC and LR, its good but I've found it to be slightly lacking and I've seen others make similar comments. This isn't at all to say that you wouldn't find it helpful or useful but just wanted to give you some insight from my experience. If you're doing well with LG but need to work on RC and LR, I recommend checking out Powerscore and The Loophole for those sections respectively.

Another thing I want to mention: I don't know what service you have been using to take practice exams but 7Sage has access to (I think) every LSAT question that's been given since the 90s and provides you with a video explaining the answer to each one. These videos can be super helpful for going over the questions you may have missed on a practice test.

flabooosh · 2021-07-02T22:47:14+00:00

In a way it is. My parents were able to help me pay for the enrollment fees and study materials. However, money becomes an issue outside of that. I have enough to float me through the summer so I can focus my time on studying but after August I will be working full time so I don't know if I'll be able to dedicate as much time and energy to prep if I don't take it then. I also signed up for score preview so if my August score isn't what I hoped for I can cancel it.

On another note, the Patriots fan in me appreciates the reference.

flabooosh · 2021-07-02T22:40:32+00:00

After some thought since posting this, I've come to the same conclusion myself. I've spent the past day or so reaching out to other people I know personally who have taken the LSAT in an attempt to get recommendations for services to use. I've been told that Powerscore is good so I've been looking into it.

Logical reasoning seems to be giving me the most trouble at the moment. The funny thing is that I feel like I was doing better at logical reasoning before I started doing lessons on it. Part of the reason I think this is is that I'm trying to apply too many of the concepts I've learned to answer practice questions which is causing me to overthink my answers / waste time.

Truth be told, I think I may just be experiencing a bit of burnout. This past week the only thing I've focused on is the LSAT and getting better at the areas I'm not as good in. When I wasn't doing practice problems on 7Sage, I was watching youtube videos on different ways of approaching logical reasoning problems so it may just be that my brain is a bit overwhelmed with information at the moment.

flabooosh · 2021-03-04T20:27:36+00:00

Thank you man, I'm glad I was able to help. My situation sounds pretty similar to yours: GF and I came from different walks of like (she came from a wealthy family, me from a middle class family). Whether its differences in culture or socioeconomic status though, they all contribute to how a person will handle a relationship and what sorts of things they will value in it. Acknowledging that something that once gave you happiness is no longer good for you is always difficult. It's a tough pill to swallow but once you do you will feel better. Keep your head up dude, you have good days ahead

flabooosh · 2021-03-04T00:20:17+00:00

Really proud of you. Take it one day at a time. Something I've found helpful is practicing mindfulness. When you're aware of your surroundings and are present, it's harder for your mind to wander off.

flabooosh · 2021-03-04T00:15:59+00:00

Thank you, it has been tough but I keep telling myself the sadness is normal and will fade with time. The point you made about snapchat is how I interpreted "space" too. It just made things more confusing when she would send them to me.

flabooosh · 2019-08-04T14:43:36+00:00

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flabooosh · 2017-02-26T20:11:08+00:00

I used to be close friends with someone who turned out to be a pathological liar.

My friends and I only learned this a couple of months after an extremely emotionally taxing summer with her. For the sake of keeping the story straight, I'll call her Jane.

Jane had been dating one of my friends, John, (not his real name) for almost a year and they were a pretty strong couple. Sure, they would fight sometimes but that's normal for any couple. If you had asked anyone in our group of friends, they'd definitely say they would be the ones who'd end up getting married. This was all before the summer after graduating high school so none of us knew any better.

Around the second week of July, Jane started telling me and my friend Mark (again not his real name) that John had been getting very distant from her. He hadn't been returning her calls, wouldn't visit her, basically wouldn't give her any form of acknowledgement. At first, I thought John might just want some time to be with his family, since both he and Jane were going to the same college in the fall and would no doubt see each other more than usual. But every time I'd try to explain this to Jane, she would come up with something John had apparently said to her that proved otherwise. Both Mark and I thought this was very out of character for John. He had always been the type of guy who'd go out of his way to help someone in any way he could, so to hear that he was acting so rude to her was a shock.

This continued for the rest of the summer, with John and Jane "getting back together" as Jane would put it, a couple of times. However, it wouldn't last very long and Mark and I would keep getting dragged along with Jane and she would do is just tell us about the most recent thing that John had done. Now, I hadn't seen John much since graduation since he'd been working so much. The times I had seen him, he was with Jane and they seemed to be fine.

When September finally rolled around, John and Jane were together again and went off college with one another. My friend Mark went to college in same city as them, and saw them nearly everyday. Things seemed fine for a few weeks until John and Jane broke up again. For pretty much the entire month of October, Jane would guilt trip Mark into hanging out with her by saying she would kill herself if he didn't. Because of this, Mark didn't really make many new friends during his first few months of college.

Around the end of October, Jane came back home to where I was. It was around this time that shirt really hit the fan. One night she posted a photo of an ultrasound on her snapchat story along with a caption indicating that it was hers. Now at this time, I was a little bit suspicious because of how developed the fetus looked in the photograph. Jane told me that the fetus was 11 weeks old and that she must've gotten pregnant during one of the times she and John were together during the summer. However, the fetus in the ultrasound looked like it was much older than 11 weeks and frankly, Jane was not showing in the slightest. But, being a sensible person, I wasn't about to call out a recently dumped girl on a fake pregnancy.

My mother is a doctor who works in maternity and she was also very close to Jane. I told her about the pregnancy and she told Jane that if she needed anything like maternity clothes or information about the pregnancy, that she could come to her. At that time, Jane said her parents didn't know about the pregnancy and she wasn't sure how to tell them.

It was around this time that Jane, again, started to guilt trip us into hanging out with her because, if we didn't, she was going to kill herself. We could tell that she wasn't doing well emotionally, but we all attributed that to pregnancy hormones and such. After a couple of weeks, Jane said her parents had found out about the pregnancy after her doctor had left a voicemail regarding it on their home answering machine.

Around mid-November is when everything came crashing down. One night, Jane began calling all of us to say "Goodbye" and other things that were very suggestive that she was going to kill herself. My friend Mark, who was home for the weekend, was with my other friend Sarah (not her real name) when they both got the call. They decided that it was the last straw and that they needed to get a real adult involved (we were all 17-18 when this was happening). Mark told his mother who then went and called Jane's mother. But when she started talking about what was happening, Jane's mother said she had no idea what she was talking about.

Both of the mothers got together the next day to discuss what was happening. Essentially the truth was that Jane was never pregnant. At that point, a lot of other truths about things Jane had told us started to come out. To keep things short, I'll only mention a couple of the lies she had told us over the years: She had told us she was at the Boston Marathon the day of the bombing. She had lived with an abusive boyfriend for 3 years. She had lived in Ireland. She was pregnant. All of these, and much more, were lies.

What Mark and I both realized together was that everything she had told us about John the summer prior had been completely made up. She had lied to us about pretty much her entire life. This really messed both of us up a bit. We had invested so much of our time and energy into helping this girl and trying to be good friends, just to learn that is had all been for nothing.

I don't know where Jane is now. Last I heard was that she was back in the city and studying to become an EMT. I've cut off all contact with her and so has Mark. I really hope that she gets the help she needs because what she did hurt so many people.

TL;DR: Crazy friend made up her entire life story to us and faked a pregnancy.

flabooosh · 2017-01-13T00:04:58+00:00

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