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  • prj45
    prj45 Posts: 2,208
    My resting rate is between 55 and 65, it goes as high as 185 if I push it.

    IIRC your max heart rate is 220 minus your age, so LIT yours would be 195, but you can't stay there for very long.
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    prj45 wrote:
    IIRC your max heart rate is 220 minus your age
    that's very approximate though.
  • cjw
    cjw Posts: 1,889
    prj45 wrote:
    IIRC your max heart rate is 220 minus your age, so LIT yours would be 195, but you can't stay there for very long.

    No it isn't. That is an estimate and your own value can only be found by doing max HR tests.... which hurt a lot and you will probbly be sick at the end of it.

    According to the calculation my MHR is 176 (my birthday was recent and obviously on that day my MHR dropped by 1 beat per muniute :lol: ). My TRUE MHR is 198. I can maintain Zone 5 (between 90% and 100%) for max 30 minutes and then down to zone 4 (between 80 - 90%) and can hold that for about 2 hours.

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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Always Tyred wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Are women more susceptible to these fitness fads I wonder?
    :lol::lol::lol:

    Funny 'cause it's true...

    I never see men in MBTs or on Power Plates... Also, what is the deal with power plates? I tried them, and they just make my nose tingle. Why does standing on a vibrating plate make exercise harder? Hmmmmmmmmmm?

    Seems like an alleged easy way out to me...
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Are women more susceptible to these fitness fads I wonder?
    :lol::lol::lol:

    Funny 'cause it's true...

    I never see men in MBTs or on Power Plates... Also, what is the deal with power plates? I tried them, and they just make my nose tingle. Why does standing on a vibrating plate make exercise harder? Hmmmmmmmmmm?

    Seems like an alleged easy way out to me...
    If its easy, its not working.

    Electrodes on your stomach? Don't work.
    Hooking yourself up to the mains? Doesn't work either.
    Listening to language tapes when you are asleep? Doesn't work.
    Speed reading? Doesn't work.
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Always Tyred wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Are women more susceptible to these fitness fads I wonder?
    :lol::lol::lol:

    Funny 'cause it's true...

    I never see men in MBTs or on Power Plates... Also, what is the deal with power plates? I tried them, and they just make my nose tingle. Why does standing on a vibrating plate make exercise harder? Hmmmmmmmmmm?

    Seems like an alleged easy way out to me...
    If its easy, its not working.

    Electrodes on your stomach? Don't work.
    Hooking yourself up to the mains? Doesn't work either.
    Listening to language tapes when you are asleep? Doesn't work.
    Speed reading? Doesn't work.

    Couldn't agree more. If it was as easy as standing on a vibrating plate once a week everyone would be skinny.

    Stupid power plates.
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Does anyone remember those vibrating belt machines you used to see in all the gyms back in the early 80's :lol:
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    itboffin wrote:
    Does anyone remember those vibrating belt machines you used to see in all the gyms back in the early 80's :lol:
    Yes.
    We should start a thread about strange Victorian and post-Victorian excersise equipment.

    We'd have to ask permission though, becuase its not really to do with commuting.
  • jedster
    jedster Posts: 1,717
    I seem to have a strangely wide HR range.

    My resting rate is in the 40s.
    Flat-out running I can get it just above 200.
    I can easily get it to stay above 180 for a 10k or half-marathon.*
    Rate is lower when cycling for equivalent effort because of the different body position.

    * I note that Chromehoof said this was unsustainable, au contraire!

    I agree with the comment that someone made that there really isn't a normal range (or more accurately that the range of possibilities is really quite wide).

    BTW, I'm (cough) 38, so my max heart rates should have fallen a bit by now.

    J

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