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    max heart rate

    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

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    Re: max heart rate

    I've always seem 220-age.

    Although the best way is use your Garmin to find it out yourself - bloody knackers you out though!

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    Re: max heart rate

    Quote Originally Posted by sjedwardz View Post
    I've always seem 220-age.

    Although the best way is use your Garmin to find it out yourself - bloody knackers you out though!
    If you're pretty fit you can use 220-75%age but you are best doing a proper test

    Did mine earlier this year with Strider and it worked out at 192

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    Re: max heart rate

    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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    Re: max heart rate

    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheHeathens View Post
    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.
    If your max heart rate is 214 I'd go get it checked out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FellMonster View Post
    If your max heart rate is 214 I'd go get it checked out.
    I wouldn't mate - it's still within normal tolerance limits, and shows why max HR estimation is crap. I did a Sports Science degree and there were people with higher max HR than me. 220 - age is pretty poor to be honest.
    Last edited by TheHeathens; 20-06-2009 at 10:30 AM.

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    I will bow to your sports science degree. What were these other people topping out at?

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    Re: max heart rate

    Quote Originally Posted by FellMonster View Post
    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.

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