Sentences with phrase «doing maf»

Hi Ivan, I've been doing MAF for a few weeks now and it's going swell but an odd event keeps happening.

Prior to the test I was doing MAF training (MAF HR = 120) 4 times a week except for once a week when I would do a club tempo run.

My next question (which may have ended the same as my first) was in reference to doing the MAF training while on a treadmill.

Hello Ivan, I have been doing MAF for 2.5 months now and love it.

I am doing MAF training for 3 years now, improving from 5:20 min / km pace down to 4:25 min / km over those three years (yes, almost a minute faster) Initially, MAF pace was really easy and very pleasant.

And keep doing MAF tests on a monthly basis.

Hi Ivan, I'm 58 — I've been doing MAF paced training (50 - > 30 - > 10) before a marathon this Sunday.

The best way to do the MAF test is on the same track in similar conditions (time of day, weather, mindset, stress).

So if I'm going to do a MAF test when I know it's going to be hot out I will only do it in the early morning hours otherwise the data would be skewed.

Does the MAF heart rate also happen to be the best intensity for improving sleep?

While you are training anaerobically, do a MAF test every week instead of every month, and keep an eye on your speed.

What I would do is run at the MAF heart rate, and do MAF tests every 2 weeks to keep track of your aerobic speed.

A simple 80 % aerobic 20 % anaerobic (where 20 % includes both training and racing) is more than enough, provided that you do an MAF test every 2 weeks to keep track of your aerobic base.

My questions relate to does MAF promote never eating any carbs again (besides vegetables and fruit), and ideally just increase my level of ketosis.

Also in Maffetone's book it says to do the MAF workouts for 20 to 60 minutes.

I have done the MAF tests before - would you advise one in this case or would you advise TOTAL rest (maybe with doing weights or something else?).

What did the MAF technique allow me to do?

I am going to do the MAF test starting tomorrow and my coach is lowering my mileage tremendously to see if that helps.

(If it takes you 2 days to figure this out, then you can do a MAF test then).

I have done the MAF method for the last 13 months after an over training / under rest episode in March 2013.

I did a MAF test for the first time in a few years and saw how badly I regressed.

These organizations receive 20 times as many donations as does the MAF.

Not exact matches

Dr Mudji was delighted to learn that MAF could provide an emergency flight for the parents, Claudine Mukhena and Zaiko Munzadi, and the girls to Kinshasa, where the operation could be done.

While 90 % of human SNPs have a minor allele frequency (MAF) below 5 % and therefore are hard to be identified as having an effect, the DO population is balanced by its design and rare variants are uncommon (only 2 % SNPs with MAF < 5 %).

It's entirely possible to do crossfit workouts without going above your MAF heart rate.

Mark, in terms of fat burning, how does one reconcile Tabata with the rhetoric behind MAF, Phil Maffetone's approach to getting faster by going slower?

Don't get me wrong — the MAF heart rate should be aerobic.

I am also a fitness instructor so do have about 2 - 4 workouts (mostly weights) each week at the gym that my HR is well over my 138 MAF and even while I cycle (something I changed to this fall to help with the stress on my adrenals from running) takes me over that effort when I am not working very hard.

Can I look at this range as my true MAF pace even if the test didn't confirm / match?

So if you're doing the daily HR tracking, you don't absolutely need to set aside time to do a formal MAF test.

What I would do is to train strength / speed at that percentage for 2 weeks, and then go back to mostly MAF for the next two weeks, in order for your aerobic system to «catch up,» and so on and so on.

FAT MAX is the metric that specifically gets at what your MAF HR should be; metabolically nonspecific tests such as VO2 MAX don't get at this number.

Didn't feel «refreshed» at the end like I usually do after a MAF workout.

This is why at MAF we don't advocate for any kind of long slow distance.

You mentioned that aerobic training is «any training that occurs below the MAF HR and you can do for more than 12 - 15 repetitions.»

What I have been doing lately is circuit style training in the 12 - 20 rep zone under MAF.

If it's under MAF and it lasts more than 15 reps (like a typical routine does) then it counts.

Simple: any training that occurs below the MAF HR and you can do for more than 12 - 15 repetitions.

If I do 15 air squats, 15 plyometric squats and plus 15 squats carrying some weight, staying below my MAF - HR in all of those, is it guaranteed that I'm keeping fully aerobic?

I have also been doing runs (3 - 6 miles) about 3 times a week under MAF (in addition to 2 circuit sessions).

That said, if you do stay under your MAF HR with a training routine similar to the one you described above, it's likely that you are remaining overwhelmingly aerobic.

I have done all my runs for the past month at MAF pace (14 min / mile run / walk).

But in terms of changing the metabolism so that fat loss becomes sustainable, the surest way to do that is through MAF training.

I'd do strength / power for 2 weeks, and then go almost completely MAF (95 - 100 %) for the next 2 weeks.

So, as long as you are at or under your MAF heart rate during your strength training, you can go ahead and do it, and it'll still be aerobic.

wow, interesting what i found in the comments (written by Ivan), that one can do strength training while still being aerobic (if under MAF - heart - rate).

I rarely reach my MAF HR in the gym by using weights, only by doing exercises like burpies, jumping jacks, mountain climbings, etc..

While, of course, walking 20 - 30 BPM under the MAF HR doesn't give you speed adaptations at the MAF HR, it does develop a lot of the infrastructure that the running movement utilizes.

After only 7 days of doing this while continuing with my normal running, I noticed the MAF runs to become much more pleasant again.

(That said, if your MAF speed plateaus somewhere between 7 and 6 minutes per mile, that's because you've probably reached your highest aerobic potential, not because you're doing too much anaerobic workouts).