Thursday, December 17, 2009

How do you figure out your maximum heart rate?

please? help!How do you figure out your maximum heart rate?
Maximum heart rate=220-age





Target heart rate=220-age-resting heart rate


Take that number multiply by 60 or 80@% then add the resting heart rate back to itHow do you figure out your maximum heart rate?
there's a chart here


http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.j鈥?/a>
Look on wikipedia. There are more than 20 different formulas. 220-age is the most commonly known, but hardly unique.





At age 49, with an infected valve and three months out of training, I went to 178 in a stress test. I could have gone higher. 220 - 49 = 171. Any formula is approximate for most of the population, but less accurate for many very fit people.





To safely find your max, get a good warmup of 10-15 minutes with some hard work of 30-45 seconds 2-3 times. Get a few minutes rest, then start running fast until you are out of breath and have to slow down. Take 70% of that number for a training rate. But you should also NOT be breathing hard or out of breath at all during any cardio exercise, no matter the percentage, since that indicates oxygen debt, and you are then overdoing it.





Neck artery is the carotid.





The other guys formula for Target heart rate is for heart rate reserve (HRR). (HRR = 220 - age - resting hr) appproximate





training rate = resting heart rate + (desired % of heart rate reserve)
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