Originally Posted by koffee brown
What's blue zone and red zone?
You know, I'm not absolutely sure. With the blue zone, he stresses keeping your heart rate at about 60-80% of maximum and with his red zone stuff, he wants you to push much harder, sometimes at spurts of 90-100%. I think the blue zone training is designed to establish your aerobic base and the red zone training is designed to develop your anaerobic system.
So, what I'm after is if it is self defeating to even do anaerobic work when I'm trying to establish an aerobic base.