max heart rate

[egor]

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

[sjedwardz]

I've always seem 220-age.

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

[IanDarkpeak]

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

I'm 43 in body but only 23 in soul

[Ady In Accy]

http://www.briancalkins.com/HeartRate.htm

[Alphin]

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!

[TheHeathens]

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.

[Big Compass]

Hi Softie
Find a good flat mile run, do a warm up run, then do the mile as hard as you can, take a recovery run, then repeat the hard mile run and at about 3.5 to 4 minutes your heart should be at its max after that the rate will start to drop off. The 220-age goes way out as you get older, at Burnsall I got 170 on the descent, age calculation would put me at 158(62years)

[southernsoftie]

Want to start using HR in my training.

Would rather use one of the more scientific ways of working my max out, but don't quite get how you do it.

Is it as simple as just running as fast as you can and see what your HR reaches (whether hill reps or 300m x 2)?

[jodg]

What about Manx heart rate? Skennaugh?

[Derby Tup]

What about Manx heart rate? Skennaugh?

Boom, boom!