Is a High MHR something I should worry about?

thetool

I rode 27 miles today and while riding felt very strong so I decided to put the hammer down in a few places.But noticed while I was able to push very very hard my HR got very high.noticeably on the way back on a slight incline I decided to wind it up a bit.After about a 1/4 of a mile into it and still accelerating @ around 30mph I noticed my HR @ 226.I instantly backed of as it scared the S*** out of me.After a few seconds of soft peddling it was back down to 110bpm.Is this something I should be concerned about? I felt perfectly fine the whole ride.

cougie

False reading I reckon. When you're truly at your max you're almost blacking out.

My polar would "blow out" every now and then and rEcord 226 as well.

Your hr increases gradually to a max. You're better doing it on a turbo. Safer - more controllable and repeatable.

And a High mhr isn't anything to worry about.

thetool

At first I thought it was an error but this happened on about four different occasions and i could see it climbing.my alarm goes off at 188bpm.
I've been taking a amino supplement every day and this stuff is mind blowing......but I think its jacked my HR up a bit.

Pigtail

You get something called windflap, which gives a false high reading on my polar - did you have on a windproof jacket?

My maximum is much lower than that, but there is no way it comes back down in a few seconds.

Monty Dog

There is a condition called tachiocardia where the heart-rate speeds-up considerably but is usually very obvious to the individual. You ought to seek specialist help if you can't eliminate other known HR monitor errors.

amaferanga

The speed would suggest to me that it's down to a flapping jersey. If you have a Garmin or a device where you can download the data it should be very obvious from the graph of HR whether it's a real reading or down to static or interference.

rolf_f

Monty Dog wrote:

There is a condition called tachiocardia where the heart-rate speeds-up considerably but is usually very obvious to the individual.

Indeed - which I have. You don't need an HRM to know when your heart is doing 220 bpm!

(It's a bit like how you don't need the rev counter to know when you accelerate from 3rd to 2nd rather than 3rd to 4th )