Grappling & Heart Rate Monitors

whats the reasoning to doing it? to count how many cals you burn?
 
Heart rate monitor is pointless for grappling. You are usually trying to keep your heartrate low if you can.

Also, heartrate does not match up well with calories, necessarily.

Heartrate monitors are useful for one reason: Controlled cardio workout. That's not grappling.
 
Zankou said:
Heart rate monitor is pointless for grappling. You are usually trying to keep your heartrate low if you can.

Also, heartrate does not match up well with calories, necessarily.

Heartrate monitors are useful for one reason: Controlled cardio workout. That's not grappling.
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It can be if your rolling and actually working on technique.
Like a big ole 20 min roll. those are aswome
wcm
 
honestly, i wouldnt mind trying it. im kinda curious how many cals i burn in my 2-3 hr class.
 
I have a heart rate monitor and I guess I can try to grapple with it on. The big problem I see is that it straps around your chest and could very easly get moved during the workout or even dig into my chest. I will try it tommorrow and let you know.
 
There is a point to doing it, and that is to see what your max heart rate is during a 5 or 6 minute sparring session so that you know how to best maximize an other-than-sparring cardio workout. You can then use that number to know what you need to hit during HIIT intervals to get the best heart rate for conditioning. I've wanted to try it for that reason, but haven't yet.
 
Well I tried it today during rolling. I had a hard problem with it as it move a couple of times. Then I tighten it up and I had problems when my opponent was stacking me. My heart moniter uses a watch to read the heart rate so that also interferred with my rolling but not as much as the moniter did on my chest. Over all my heart rate raises more when I do MT then JJ.

Overall I would use it for what it is designed to do and that is a cardio work out. When fighting it seemed to be more of a henderance that helpful.
 
Jiu-Jitsu Cop said:
Well I tried it today during rolling. I had a hard problem with it as it move a couple of times. Then I tighten it up and I had problems when my opponent was stacking me. My heart moniter uses a watch to read the heart rate so that also interferred with my rolling but not as much as the moniter did on my chest. Over all my heart rate raises more when I do MT then JJ.

Overall I would use it for what it is designed to do and that is a cardio work out. When fighting it seemed to be more of a henderance that helpful.
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Thanks man
You saved me some money
wcm
 
Ru said:
There is a point to doing it, and that is to see what your max heart rate is during a 5 or 6 minute sparring session so that you know how to best maximize an other-than-sparring cardio workout. You can then use that number to know what you need to hit during HIIT intervals to get the best heart rate for conditioning. I've wanted to try it for that reason, but haven't yet.
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You would never even come close to hitting your max heart rate while rolling.
 
irc said:
You would never even come close to hitting your max heart rate while rolling.
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Exactly.

You want to find out your maximum heart rate for the purpose of HIIT, then use a precise and controlled form of cardio-specific training (like running), not submission grappling.
 
irc said:
You would never even come close to hitting your max heart rate while rolling.
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I didn't say your maximum heart rate in the abstract. I said max heart rate while rolling for 5-6 minutes. You can then gauge your active rest and how hard you should work during a HIIT session to improve your cardio. You could also use it to see whether you max heart rate while rolling drops after you've been working on your cardio for a while.

I'm not suggesting it would be something you could do everytime you roll. But let's say a guy is gassing while rolling and his cardio workout for whatever reason is not helping. He puts the HRM on and sees that his heart rate is maxing at x during a session and is an average of y for a 5-6 min sparring session. He then can adjust his HR during a HIIT session to meet rates he hit during a sparring session.
 
Zankou said:
Exactly.

You want to find out your maximum heart rate for the purpose of HIIT, then use a precise and controlled form of cardio-specific training (like running), not submission grappling.
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You don't find your max heart rate by doing any training. It's typically based on a formula and your age. So that won't work.
 
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