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- From: georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark)
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- Subject: Re: More on max heart rate
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 17:08:32 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.163202.17422@cbnews.cb.att.com> jmk@cbnews.cb.att.com (joseph.m.knapp) writes:
- >
- >I've been using a treadmill a lot lately along with a pulse monitor.
- >That seems to be a good way of finding out your max heart rate empirically:
- >just increase the work load until you see that the heart rate increase
- >starts slowing down and you're getting close to exhaustion. This isn't
- >too dangerous is it?
-
- It's dangerous only if you feel pain, or if you have undiagnosed heart
- problems. Otherwise, don't worry about it. The more intense your
- workout, the more fit your heart will become.
-
-
- >Anyway, I've only tried to max out a couple of times
- >and the max for me appears to be around 178. At age 37, this is pretty
- >close to the 210 minus age formula. For normal workouts, I like to keep
- >it in the 158-162 range for 30 minutes. This is about 90%, but any lower
- >doesn't seem like that much of a workout.
-
- That's good. Keep it intense once or twice per week. Your skeletal
- muscles have become conditioned to the point where the heart-rate
- formulas no longer apply.
-