I have seen a basic method of calculating my max rate, which is 220. minus my age (37) so N=183 beat per min, is there another better method anyone knows
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I have seen a basic method of calculating my max rate, which is 220. minus my age (37) so N=183 beat per min, is there another better method anyone knows
Cheers
I'm afraid this is a very inaccurate method that will always tend to give a very low result especially for active people. The reason for this is that the study used to come up with this formula only used sedentary individuals as subjects. This Wiki link goes into most of the other formulae but I'd take them all with a pinch of salt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_rate
Far better, if you're fit and healthy is to find your actual maximum.
After warming up well, find a longish hill that is pretty steep. Set your HR monitor to record max. Run up it sustaining a pace that is a hard as you can manage for 6 minutes. At six minutes, crank up the pace and max out for 30 seconds. Once your vision has returned to normal, see what your HR got to and that'll be your max.
fell running is inflicting pain on one's self:D
this site is good, allows you to put your age in and then calculates for you based on various methods:
http://www.brianmac.co.uk/maxhr.htm
I am not convinced such self-administered tests determine the maximum MHR. I can run myself to a virtual stand-still up hill or do timed step tests yet these MHR are lower than I record when running flat out after 200 yards in a short race which has the added bonus of "the adrenalin affect" of being overtaken by 12 years olds gambolling past me (I catch up with 'em after 20 miles).
When you keel over, you've gone too far.
*keels ov