What is the target heart rate

You can use your target heart rate to know how hard to exercise to gain the most aerobic benefit from your workout. You can exercise within your target heart rate to either maintain or raise your aerobic fitness level. To raise your fitness…

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You gain the most benefits and lessen the risks when you exercise in your target heart rate zone. Usually this is when your exercise heart rate (pulse) is 60 to 80 percent of your maximum heart rate. In some cases, your health care provider…

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What should my target heart rate be and should I buy a heart rate monitor?

Q: I’m 19 and I weighh about 160 lbs. Im trying to achieve a certain target zone that would be most effective for calorie and fat burning in general. I checked on line and my max. heart rate is 201. What target heart rate should i aim for (i.e, what percentage of my max heart rate)? And should I buy a heart rate monitor cuz i find it difficult to measure it by just checking my pulse?

A: Best heart rate if you’re going for slow cardio (30-60 minutes) is 70%.If you really want to burn fat, it’s best to do intervals of exercise up between 80-90 percent for 30-60 seconds, followed by a cool down to around 65%, then back up, then cool down, etc… until you’re exhausted.Also, heart rate monitors are always good if you find one that works.

How do you best achieve target heart rate?

Q: My resting rate is already in the mid 70’s ( i’m 28, 5’4” and approx. 138lbs). I know that it’s best to work within a target heart rate however being that my resting is already high when i work out it shoots up quit a bit higher. The problem is that if i try to keep my heart rate lower when i work out i don’t feel like I’m working out at all. I guess I just don’t understand how the target heart rate thing works. Please help.Higher rate rate is noramlly good but only when you are in great shape, which I’m not yet. So hwne I work out my heart rate shoots up to 180’s-190’s

A: Do you use caffiene? I know for my wifes heart rate is higher when she has a couple cups of coffee each day, both her resting HR and where her HR goes while she’s working out. Someone told me a year of so ago that I could workout, burn calories and loose weight without spending my entire workout at 85 percent. Thats all I ever new, crank it to the max and a good workout was one that made you sweat and feel it after you were done. I tried the advise of this person, spending the majority of my time in the 95 to 110 hr area, walking, yes, after 35 plus years of running, walking. I didn’t get that burn from walking, actually felt like I was wasting my time on the treadmill but to my dismay. I was shocked, I began to drop weight, not fast, but steady. One of the big changes I noticed was that after working out at a lower HR I wasn’t as hungry and didn’t need to eat as often or much as when I was spending time at the hight HR areas. This person explained it this way. Imagine you have a funnel where all your energy passes through when you work out, when you begin to work out hard your body begins to call for more of your energy stores to pass through that funnel at a faster reate. You use up your limited stores of energy quicker and begin to feel fatigued, needing to replenish those supplies of energy—EAT more. If you workout at a moderate pace your are not calling for all those energy stores as quickly and you don’t feel as fatigued or in need of eating like a horse after your finished. That said I still do vary my cardio workouts spending less time in the higher zones.

What is a good target heart rate to shoot for when trying to lose fat?

Q: I have learned that in order to lose fat, the key is cardio in which your heart rate is at an elevated level for an extended period of time.So what is a good target heart rate to shoot for to help me accomplish my goal?I am a 27 year old male, 6ft tall, about 190 pounds (not sure if any of this info. matters but I figured it might).Thank you for any insight.

A: You are correct that one of the keys to losing fat is cardio (weight trainging and better eating are also important), and that training with a Heart rate monitor is very helpful. The most widely-accepted method is using heart rate zones for training. Here is a simple explanation. First, you need to find your max heart rate (220 – age). For you, that’s 193.Next, you need to find your heart rate zones.Fat Burning zone: 60% – 70% of max heart rate – therefore, you will be burning the most fat when your heart rate stays between 116 – 135 beats per minute. This sounds slow, but the body actually burns more fat at a lower heart rate.Aerobic zone (building cardiovascular endurance): 70% – 80% of max heart rate – you will be getting the most benefit for your cardiovascular system when your heart rate stays between 135 – 154 beats per minute.Anaerobic zone (develops lactic acid system): 80% – 90% of max heart rate – your body will be able to work more efficiently anaerobically when you heart rate stays between 154 – 174 beats per minute.Good luck and if you need some more info on heart rate training, check out: http://www.marathonguide.com/training/articles/HeartMonitorTraining.cfm