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This may sound like a boring question but my max heart rate should be 187 using the 'general' 220 minus age formula but is actually about 215.
I would appear to have a 'high beating heart' as I have this high max HR and regularly train at a comfortable pace of arond 165-175bpm while my club mates are at about 135-145bpm for the same effort.
I was just wondering what other forumites figures and thoughts were...
I would appear to have a 'high beating heart' as I have this high max HR and regularly train at a comfortable pace of arond 165-175bpm while my club mates are at about 135-145bpm for the same effort.
I was just wondering what other forumites figures and thoughts were...
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According to "the formula", it "should" be 178 : I'm 42.
I think the formula provides an average figure -fine if you take a huge sample of people together, useless if you consider each one of them on an individual basis.
Highest I've seen recently is 187, but that wasn't in the "eyeballs out" zone. I reckon 192-ish wouldn't be far off the mark.
I normally do halfs and marathons, but I'm doing a 10k next weekend, so I'll see how high I can get.......
189 seen this year on a hill climb
Is the large variety of MHRs one reason that hear-rate related training is often specified as a percentage of working heart-rate (max-resting), rather than just the max? Perhaps one person's comfortable 170bpm and another's 150bpm might actually be the same percentage of their respective working heart-rate ranges?
140 in practice (flat out, up hill)
45 resting
Mine is 185.
Always freaks me out when running friends say things like - oh my hr is high it's at 155 .
AFAIK increased fitness will be reflected in a lowering of your resting heart rate and an ability to train longer and harder in each zone. But your maximum will not change (well, it will change with age but not with fitness).
Has hit 194 - I have the heart of a 26 year old :0)))
Shame I don't have his hair too :0(
As has been mentioned, this formula is not a very good one for anything other than an average.
Resting 37 - this (again as said already) is a better indicator of your fitness.
gymbunny friends' hearts working hard at 155 - they are wimps next to you ;0) Don't let it freak you out.
Dont suppose there'll be many Orang-Utan corpses hanging around North Shields.
I remember Pantman, who has a very low MaxHR, mentioning doing sub-7-min miling (I think it was) with his HR in double figures...
Min 46
I take it that all this means that someone who runs at say 8m/m with their heart rate at 170 isn't necessarily unfitter than someone who does the same speed at a heart rate on 140........provided they are at the same RPE
PL
you are right to mention RPE
When Pantman ran 7m/m at, say, at 97pbm, he would have be running at around 70-75%MHR. Of course, that's still VERY good, as he was very fit 'n' fast at that point, but it's not the same as it would be for me. At those bpm, I would be running < 50% MHR -a vastly lower effort.
My calculated is 220 - 41 = 179.
I have seen mine consistantly at >180 when I am racing. Not a huge difference I admit. But does this mean that I am actually a year of two younger? I think so.... :-)
Colin
Groucho Marx said you're as old as the woman you feel :>}
Formula says 170 (yes I'm 50)
Actual 185 (only noted it on 2 occasions)
RHR 38
Don't recall if Groucho mentioned anything about said child having a Max HR of 215 though