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PROGRESSING IN TRAINING
In the early stages, you can follow the
sample training programs of Suunto
Training Manager. They include typical
training weeks for a beginner for the
first months. These sample programs
ensure that your training is developing
sufficiently but also includes enough
rest.
A suitable amount of training on a weekly
level, at first, is three or four training
sessions with a duration of 20 to 60 minutes.
One of these should reach at least
the improving level (level 3 on the five
-level EPOC scale). The program should
also have one to two maintaining exercises
and one recovery exercise.
At the beginning of regular training,
your fitness will improve rather rapidly,
and after a few weeks, we recommend
checking your personal background
information on the software’s Personal
page, and re-enter them if necessary.
This way, the software can adapt to
your training and adjust the Training
Effect levels to match your fitness level.
This enables you to ensure that your
training remains optimal all the time
and your fitness develops in the best
possible way.
As your fitness improves and you
update your background information,
the EPOC levels describing Training
Effect will increase. You must perform
slightly harder training sessions than
earlier for continuing improvement of
your fitness. At the same time, you can
slowly increase the amount of training.
After a couple of months of training
you can accurately determine your maximum
heart rate and maximum performance
by performing control training.
This helps you achieve even more
accurate values and a more precise
monitoring of your training.
TRAINING GUIDEBOOK 25