01-28-02, 02:06 PM | |
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Here's an interesting site:
http://home.hia.no/~stephens/index.html More HR articles: http://home.hia.no/~stephens/hrchngs.htm http://home.hia.no/~stephens/exphys.htm http://www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/0006.htm http://www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/0167.htm Actually that whole site has lots of training articles: http://www.pponline.co.uk Comparing our resting heart rate to the "norm" doesn't give any useful information. It's true that as we improve our fitness our resting HR will get lower *compared to what it used to be when we were sedentary*. That's all. And how high it is when we are sedentary depends on how we picked our parents (it's genetic). Another use for resting HR is as a danger signal: when we overtrain it will be higher than normal (the normal for US, not normal for the population). So that's useful information. Anyway, that's the info I've gathered from much reading... yours might be different. Hope the links help. Happy reading. -Aline |
01-28-02, 04:06 PM | |
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2 interesting points
it seems, after reading the Stephens site (that Aline quoted above) knowing one's Personal MAXimum heartrate for a given activity is as important as knowing one's resting rate.
This max rate is not the nec the same as what the age calculators will tell us. So figuring out any other percentage for workout heart rate needs the personal range (resting and max) of a given individual to be properly adjusted for the individual. (if i understood what i was reading correctly) Question: If this is correct can i get on a piece of equiptment and just put my 100% effort in to find out what my personal maximum heart rate number would be? Another interesting point from the readings Aline offered... Is "heart rate drift" You can do the same activity at the same intensity over a period of time and your heart rate can scoot up by as much as 20 beats without you changing your exertion. The writer suggests if you depend on your heartrate monitor to tell you when to slow down you might be slowing down when you shouldnt because of this drift and not getting all the training benefit you should. Intelligent stuff to think about. Thank you Aline! |
01-28-02, 06:19 PM | |
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finding out your max hr
I haven't read the links yet, and I'm waiting for my 1st HRM to come in the mail, but Sally Edwards' site has some interesting info. She discusses how to find out your max heart rate. I wonder if it might be better to jog outside than use most modern machines, since you'd have to program the machine instead of just going as hard as you could. Maybe you could use a spinning bike?
Here is the link. She adds all sorts of caveats about how you need to be "elite" before you try this at home. http://www.heartzones.com/hz/elite.shtml [URL=http://www.heartzones.com/hz/elite.shtml] |
01-29-02, 02:24 AM | |
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Karen P...
You explain HR and it's relationship to the the fat loss equation really eloquently. As an exercise phys. I'm forever explaining to people that for physical activity, we run on glucose (think TCA cycle). It's the phenomena of getting aerobically fitter that encourages the conversion of body fat to free fatty acids to glucose that is the "fat burning" part. And no faster way to get fitter than to add some interval training.
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