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Originally Posted by FrogMan
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What I'm finding odd is I can't seem to really push my heart rate up much more than 160-something. I was pushing myself kinda hard out there this morning and had my heart in my throat, sorta, yet HR never went much higher than 161 or so. I do have a resting HR at about 50 or so, so maybe my heart is just like that. Any thoughts?
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I'm obviously no doctor, so just take this for whatever its worth, but I've read comments regarding to people that had higher than normal HR and that the typical HR settings for them had to be adjusted for proper HR Zone reporting. I am going to guess that the opposite might be possible as well?
This is from a study on HRmax, and you can see some cases there were really low HRmax.. you may very well just be an outlier for whatever reasons that I don't understand. If that is the case, then all of the various HR zone charts on all of the sites you use won't provide you meaningful data until you modify them with what your zones really are.
What most people use for HRmax (including myself) is for the most part estimations based on forumlas that are in no means accurate since HRmax is a very individual thing. If you want to try to find it out for sure, you likely would have to see your doctor.. there are some tests that you can try to better approximate it for yourself though. One that I see commonly suggested is:
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- Strap on a heart rate monitor.
- Warm up by running for 10 or so minutes at medium running speed.
- Build speed for another few minutes.
- Approach a long, 500 meter/yard medium-grade hill while still building speed.
- Run up 500 meter hill as fast as you can.
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There is some difference of opinion if you should run the hill a few times first to build up your HR before your all out run or not.. but generally by your all out run up the hill after you've been running a while, if you push yourself really hard, two things will happen:
1) You'll probably physically be unable to finish that hill if you are running hard enough..
2) Your HRM should be able to give you a reading of how hard your HR is beating.
It won't be 100% accurate but should hopefully be able to give you an estimation of your HRmax.. then with your resting HR, you can define proper HR zones for your data