Can you talk in Zone 3?

Zone 3: 70 – 79 percent of Max HR: Moderate activity, such as speed walking, running, aerobics or riding a bike on flat ground. Talking while exercising becomes more difficult, and you can only speak in short sentences. This level puts you in the aerobic zone and starts to improve your heart and lung endurance.



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Zone 3 corresponds to lactate threshold intensity. Thinking in “threshold” terms can help you find this zone and stay in it by feel. The feeling of running in Zone 3 is often described as “comfortably hard,” or as the fastest speed that still feels relaxed.

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Zone 2 is considered the target range for aerobic and base fitness work and should be about 60-70% of your HRmax. Zone 3 is the range for aerobic endurance work and should put you at about 70-80% of your HRmax.

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Exciting new developments, upgraded town centres, vast green spaces, and new businesses, and all with an average travel time of just 29 minutes to get into central London, are truly putting Zone 3 on the map. And it's not just buyers; renters are also upping sticks and moving into Zone 3.

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Zone 3 makes a first class case Despite these increases, you will find many areas around the 93 tube stations in Zone 3 still have a relatively affordable housing market. Prices across Zone 3 as a whole average around £488,000; that's around a third cheaper than the £723,000 you'd pay in Zone 2.

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The theory is that you use Z2 to get in the training without overtaxing yourself and therefore give your body the proper recovery it needs to make your hard days hard. Z3 used to be referred to as “junk miles” because they were not hard enough to stimulate growth/adaptation, but not easy enough to facilitate recovery.

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Beyond this point, your body will begin to utilize more and more carbohydrates and then begin to decline in metabolic efficiency. Zone 2, therefore, is where you should spend a lot of your time training if you want to improve your fat-burning capability.

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