can somone give me one of the equations used yfor working out max heart rate, my garmin went so im having to re enter info, i appreciate theres different ones and there not precise
can somone give me one of the equations used yfor working out max heart rate, my garmin went so im having to re enter info, i appreciate theres different ones and there not precise
I've always seem 220-age.
Although the best way is use your Garmin to find it out yourself - bloody knackers you out though!
Either set yourself a good hill rep session or do a shortish race where you can give it your all and see what your MHR is.....On the hill rep session I tend to get a MHR of 184 but over the past two weekends of racing have hit 186 twice, that now being my new MHR!
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What I used to do when I was testing at Uni was to get someone to run flat out for 300m, then rest for 20-30 secs and get them to do it again - you'd usually get your max based on that.
There are various methods of estimating it, 220-age being the most common, but they're fairly unreliable - my max HR is 214 and I'm 28!
214 - (age x 0.8) is meant to be a little more accurate than the 220 one, but again it clearly wouldn't work in my case.
Last edited by TheHeathens; 20-06-2009 at 10:30 AM.
I will bow to your sports science degree. What were these other people topping out at?
Not much higher than me - about 219 was the highest. These were lab assessed maximums as well, not by doing hill reps or the 300m reps I mentioned earlier. I remember running the Offerton 6 with an HR monitor and my HR was about 201 all the way round, although I think I did have a cold at the time.
The 220-age has (IIRC) a 10% standard deviation, so for a 20-25 year old male, 214 is still within the normal limits as it could vary by + - 20 bpm.