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- From: A. Satish Pai <Pai-Satish@CS.Yale.Edu>
- Subject: Too high? [Re: More on max heart rate]
- In-Reply-To: jmk@cbnews.cb.att.com's message of Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16: 32:02 GMT
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:41:14 GMT
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- I swim 2 or 3 times a week, for 30-40 minutes at a time. Within 5 or 10 minutes
- of starting to swim, my heart is usually pounding at 170 to 190 beats per
- minute (there is no pain or discomfort). This seems like it's dangerously close
- to the "maximum" computed by the (220 - age) formula (I'm 25 years old). And
- the "recommended" 80% for exercising is about 155 which I invariably exceed.
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- Am I doing something wrong? As another poster mentioned here, I don't feel I'm
- working out if I go any easier. By the way, my resting pulse rate is about 60.
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- Is the formula supposed to be applicable to all/most people?
-
- -Satish
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