Mark Allen is a triathlon coach. He has a great article on "building your base" if you're a newbie to intense training or if you've taken off for a few months (to ingest turkey or rip open over-priced boxes with pretty paper on the outside).
The link to his site is here: http://markallenonline.com/base.asp
Obviously there are a few different "zones" for your heart-rate. One of which is the "aerobic" zone. Mark goes into explaining an easy formula to calculate the "zone" for you to train in for 10-12 weeks to build your aerobic base.
The reason why most people don't follow through is because everyone wants to run 10 miles in 2minutes in the gym and impress everyone. Who cares. So as of yesterday, I got a nifty new heart-rate monitor and I set my "training zone" to 121-152. So when I'm within this new zone of mine, I'm working on my base.
From now until another 12 weeks, everytime I reference my "training zone" or "in-zone" .. I'm refering to the 121-152 bpm zone that I have for myself.
I will be focusing on maximizing my exposure to this zone. So if I train for 100 minutes, I'd like to have 80% of that time spent in-the-zone. This will be due to "warm-up" and "cool-down" times that are added into the total work-out time for each session.
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