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March 26, 2009 - Danbury, CT — Fitness enthusiasts get in shape faster by finding their “target zone.” The new Target Zone Calculator is at “Working in ‘the Zone’ can tune your heart and lungs to peak efficiency in just a few weeks,” says company founder Terry Dunkle, an award-winning medical journalist who invented DietPower 21 years ago to get in shape himself.
The Target Zone Calculator speeds cardiovascular conditioning by helping exercisers work at a heart rate that is neither too low nor too high. “If you push yourself too hard,” says Dunkle, “you build muscle but not fitness. Push too little and you build neither.”
Cardiovascular fitness is especially important for people worried about heart disease, stroke, and lung ailments. “Fitness” is a measure of the body’s capacity for converting food and oxygen into work. Unfit people waste calories and are “winded” by light exercise. Fit people make the most of every calorie and often report feeling more energetic, confident, and strong. They also are less prone to disease.
The only way to become fit is through exercise. Physical exertion trains the lungs and muscles to process oxygen more efficiently—but only if it is performed in the Zone.
Where is the Zone? It depends on a person’s age, sex, resting heart rate, and current degree of conditioning. It also varies with the kind of exercise. For a 25-year-old male advanced swimmer with a resting heart rate of 60, for example, it’s 139 to 149 beats per minute. For a 60-year-old female novice walker with a resting heart rate of 75, however, it’s only 128 to 135 beats per minute.
DietPower’s new calculator identifies anyone’s Zone in seconds. Like other DietPower tools, it is backed by a blue-ribbon scientific advisory board (www.dietpower.com/who_we_are/science_advisers.php) and designed for ordinary consumers and health professionals alike.
DietPower, Inc., has produced and marketed science-based weight loss- and nutrition-coaching software since 1988. Free, no-obligation trials of its programs are available at www.dietpower.com.
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