What heart rates do you typically keep your heart at during exercise?

[Anonymous]

140 is about right for me. 160 and I can not stand it. I work out with one person that regularly has it at 180 with almost no problems.

[Anonymous]

You can't compare yourself to what others are achieving because everyone's fitness levels are different.

For most healthy people, the exercise target heart rate ranges from 50% to 75% of your maximum heart rate, which is normally calculated as the number 220 minus your age.

So if you are 30 you maximum heart rate is 190 so shoot for a target heart rate between 95 and 143.

[Anonymous]

I take a beta blocker for a heart condition but still maintain a 125-130 pulse for 40 minutes of vigorous exercise on the stairmaster.

[Anonymous]

just bought a new polar heart montior to make sure i am pushing myself during my workouts, the man selling it said that 100% of my time should be in heart zones 1 and 2 for maxmial weight loss, for me zone 1 is 107 to 121 and zone 2 is 121 to 141. 80% of my time should be in zone 2. he also asked me how many times a week do i go to the gym, then he computed a recipe that said i need about 5.5 hours per week to get meaningful weight loss at these heart rates. prior to all this i would do a run walk rountine, i have always felt running was the hardest thng for me and made me sweat the most, so i would run for 2 minutes and then walk fast for 3 and keep this up for 35 minutes, when i start to run at a 10:15 mile pace my heart rate goes to 150, a fast walk with incline keeps me at about 140, 150 is hard for me, 140 i can handle.

i read another article on burning of calories, there is a balance of where your body grabs calories from depending on stress level of excercise, your body can use fat or sugars stored in muscle or muscle itself, ideally, if your fat, you want to maximize fat calories being burned and reduce any muscle fibers being used to fuel your workout, this articlesaid that at about 50% to 60% target heart rate you are using aboout 50% fat calories and about 50% muscle calories to fuel your workout, when you push heart rate to 70% or greater you use about 15% fat calories and 85% muscle eneryg stores to feul workout

i think this makes some sense, everyone is different, if you are a endurance athlete you most likely dont have a fat issue and want to increase vo2max and endurance, i thinki the key is getting in the gym more and eating better, push yourself

[Anonymous]

just bought a new polar heart montior to make sure i am pushing myself during my workouts, the man selling it said that 100% of my time should be in heart zones 1 and 2 for maxmial weight loss, for me zone 1 is 107 to 121 and zone 2 is 121 to 141. 80% of my time should be in zone 2. he also asked me how many times a week do i go to the gym, then he computed a recipe that said i need about 5.5 hours per week to get meaningful weight loss at these heart rates. prior to all this i would do a run walk rountine, i have always felt running was the hardest thng for me and made me sweat the most, so i would run for 2 minutes and then walk fast for 3 and keep this up for 35 minutes, when i start to run at a 10:15 mile pace my heart rate goes to 150, a fast walk with incline keeps me at about 140, 150 is hard for me, 140 i can handle.

i read another article on burning of calories, there is a balance of where your body grabs calories from depending on stress level of excercise, your body can use fat or sugars stored in muscle or muscle itself, ideally, if your fat, you want to maximize fat calories being burned and reduce any muscle fibers being used to fuel your workout, this articlesaid that at about 50% to 60% target heart rate you are using aboout 50% fat calories and about 50% muscle calories to fuel your workout, when you push heart rate to 70% or greater you use about 15% fat calories and 85% muscle eneryg stores to feul workout

i think this makes some sense, everyone is different, if you are a endurance athlete you most likely dont have a fat issue and want to increase vo2max and endurance, i thinki the key is getting in the gym more and eating better, push yourself



Just watch your diet and walk. you'l lose weight