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Zone II cardio is basically any cardiovascular exercise that gets you moving, and your heart pumping, and breathing, but not so hard that you can't hold a conversation, and so that kind of puts you at the threshold of just being just able to have a conversation that's a little bit strained, but if you were to exercise a little bit harder, you know, run a little bit faster, et cetera, you wouldn't be able to talk while you did it.
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Zone two cardio is cardiovascular exercise that places you at a level where you can hold a conversation with a little bit of strain, meaning that you can get the words out, but every once in a while you have to catch your breath whereas if you were to push any harder by any mechanism going faster or on a steeper incline, et cetera, that you would have a hard time carrying out a conversation.
meaning that you can get the words out, but every once in a while you have to catch your breath whereas if you were to push any harder by any mechanism going faster or on a steeper incline, et cetera, that you would have a hard time carrying out a conversation.
Zone 2 would be for anybody the pace or intensity of exercise that one could perform while still maintaining a conversation but just barely meaning if you were to push any harder then it would be difficult to hold that conversation
zone 2 cardio is the type of movement that we typically call cardio exercise that elevates your heart rate somewhat, increases your breathing somewhat, but that still allows you to carry out a conversation without having to pause or to gasp in order to complete your sentences.
Zone 2 cardio is um cardiovascular exercise could be running could be swimming could be walking depending on your level of Fitness which you can just barely maintain a conversation
i can mostly nasal breathe in zone two but frankly it's a bit uncomfortable but i certainly am not going you know the way i am when i'm doing something all out so i can mostly nasal breathe and i can talk but i just don't want to
I always tell people if you can exercise and maintain a conversation like you and i are doing you're way too easy you're probably zone one
when i'm in zone 2 as confirmed by lactate levels i can carry out a conversation but it's not as comfortable as this discussion here
for me I mean it's it it feels like you know if if I'm on my bike doing a Zone 2 and my wife comes in or one of my kids comes in to talk to me I'm like I can talk I'm like hey yeah okay yep I got it yep I'll pick them up you know um do I want to sit there and talk no but I can yeah if I could talk like this I'm in zone one if you and I went for a walk we're in zone one
most of rucking is below zone two except when you're going up the hills which is brutal then you're not talking then you're out of zone two so there's very little of a Ruck that's actually in zone two
but again the simplest way for most people is the is the RP way right is is zone two is that threshold where you go from being able to speak while you're exercising but being uncomfortable to not being able to speak and where where most people cross that threshold is where you will now start to net accumulate lactate with your activity