We thought end of February is time for everyone to start gearing up for the paddling season no matter how cold is still outside.

Where best to start than with a sprint canoeing Training Intensity Table. You can find the table in our Training Zones Guide, on the Free Resources page.

Training intensity zones are important for more than one reason:

• They give you clear terminology to use with athletes/coaches when discussing training.
• You never want to just train and push hard – you always want to be exactly where you need to be with intensity.
• The table will provide you with heart rate, stroke rate, approximate speed, lactate values to respect (in some of them one or more of these parameters are not applicable) – always remember you have to respect most if not all of this parameters to be truly in a particular zone. For the future we are working on preparing also a DPS table for your training zones.
• Deriving from our zones – there is clear and particular methodologies of training and ways of planning we use at TiP.

Don’t forget to download the table with some example sessions for use here.

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