It’s easy to line up my five-zone heart rate system and the scientists’ three-level hierarchy, as we’ve done already with respect to perceived effort ratings. Remember that I’ve chosen to define low intensity as the range of intensities that fall below the ventilatory threshold, moderate intensity as the range of intensities between the ventilatory threshold and the lactate threshold, and high intensity as anything above the lactate threshold. The ventilatory threshold falls at the bottom end of Zone 3 (or 96 percent of lactate threshold heart rate). The lactate threshold is aligned with the
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