Heart rate

[supreme]

Dial tone your right on!

much better formula for it takes into consideration your resting heart rate which is an indicator of your CV fitness. Being a competitive athlete the stupid 220-age formula would have you training at too low an intensity, unless you have a high resting heart rate.

Question, do you use any stimulants (ephedrine, clen, T3, yohimbie ) for they tend to raise heart rate and will throw the formula off!

To be the most accurate, if you have a treadmill or bike GXT with a 12 lead EKG you will know exactly what your true max HR is. If you add in a metabolic cart you can analyze expired gasses and get your true VO2 Max & the amount of carbs vs fats oxidized for energy (of course you should be stimulant free for at least 1 month)

Just a thought, for the more prceise your assessment, the more precise your training can be.

S

 

[Dial_tone]

I don't use any stimulants...an artificially elevated HR is the last thing I want. My resting HR has never been terribly low though; maybe 52'ish when I'm really training for that. I am hoping to do a 100 mile bike ride or a Olympic distance triathlon if I can get my bodyweight low enough to make it worth a go. I'm 2 years away from that though.

 

[anthrax]

Thanx all for all those great info !

I've been doing interval training for more than a year now (I use to do only moderate intensity, high duration cardio before) and my heart rate at rest decreased

It is now a bit below 50
but I can go quite high (about 195) and it didn't decrease (I thought it would)

 

[supreme]

Guys,

You are all in excellet CV shape - avg. male resting HR approx. 68 - 72 BPM, you guys are near swimmer CV fitness (they tend to have the lowest resting HR - sneaky bastards at ACSM slip them into pratcial exams to see who really knows how to take HR & do the formulas)


Keep up the good work !!!

S

 

[anthrax]

The lowest HR is 28 bpm (Miguel Indurain, a Spanish cyclist)

At 50 it is just between an athlete and a fat ass couch potato

 

[wtlftr]

man that is a low resting HR.

 

[Sub-Zero]

can someone get more into this interval training?

is that like sprints? or jogging, sprinting for 10 seconds, then going back to jogging (such as indian runs)...what is it!?


also, i have a question...iftraining muscles to failure in lifting helps them get stronger, why not train your heart to failure? like do so much cardio your heart fails, and then it gets bigger and stronger...?

 

[Dial_tone]

Indurain had an absolutely un-God-ly high VO2 max. He's been retired for years and people still marvel at his numbers. I watched him blow by Lance Armstrong in a time trial so fast it appeared Lance was pedaling backwards.

 

[supreme]

The HR for Indurian is incredible, probably a combo of genetics, training and location (altitude). But 50 is no couch potato. It may be high compared to elite athletes but I see the real couch potatoes daily: 70 -90 bpm or on beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers etc.

A HR of 50, especially for people above 35 years is damn good! -especailly if they are not competitive endurance athletes

S

 

[OGR]

Target HR Zones?

I've read other places that different HR zones promote different results. You already touched on this, what I was specifically asking someone to confirm or denounce that 60% of MHR is ideal for burning fat stores.

TIA