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I got a heart rate monitor this morning (its a Polar F5TM), so decided to go to the gym and try it out.
Its great, easy to use and setup and tells you everything you could want to know. Only slight glitch is on the bikes it doesnt get a signal from the belt for some reason, but the machine does so thats not a problem.
Anyway, my question is if I row 10,000m (as I usually do) and my average heart rate is at 178bpm (e.g 89% of max, I'm 19) am I eventually going to cripple myself/give myself a heart attack or something.
Cheers
Hugh
editted to add: 10,000m takes me 36m59.5s (I'm rather proud of that
)
>> Edited by hugh_ on Friday 24th February 13:45
Its great, easy to use and setup and tells you everything you could want to know. Only slight glitch is on the bikes it doesnt get a signal from the belt for some reason, but the machine does so thats not a problem.
Anyway, my question is if I row 10,000m (as I usually do) and my average heart rate is at 178bpm (e.g 89% of max, I'm 19) am I eventually going to cripple myself/give myself a heart attack or something.
Cheers
Hugh
editted to add: 10,000m takes me 36m59.5s (I'm rather proud of that
) >> Edited by hugh_ on Friday 24th February 13:45
hugh_ said:
I got a heart rate monitor this morning (its a Polar F5TM), so decided to go to the gym and try it out.
Its great, easy to use and setup and tells you everything you could want to know. Only slight glitch is on the bikes it doesnt get a signal from the belt for some reason, but the machine does so thats not a problem.
Anyway, my question is if I row 10,000m (as I usually do) and my average heart rate is at 178bpm (e.g 89% of max, I'm 19) am I eventually going to cripple myself/give myself a heart attack or something.
Cheers
Hugh
editted to add: 10,000m takes me 36m59.5s (I'm rather proud of that
>> Edited by hugh_ on Friday 24th February 13:45
178bpm is quite a lot as an average for 36 mins. But, if you can do it, fine. Just build up gradually and warm down too.
178bpm is high but you should cope in limited bursts, providing your fit and healthy and haven't got arteries full of butter you should be ok. Not drinking high amounts of caffeine will help too (drinking redbulls and then rowing would be a silly idea).
>> Edited by scorp on Friday 24th February 13:49
>> Edited by scorp on Friday 24th February 13:49
Remember the "Max Heart Rate = 220 - age" calculation is only a guideline, lots of people don't fit it. It could be that your MHR is higher so 178bpm is less than 89%. Generally, if you can do it (ie 30-40mins at average 178bpm) then it's fine. As already said, make sure you warm up and down well though.
I had a monitor on at a training session that gave a max reading well over 300bpm - we eventually worked out it was getting interference from someone else's chest strap too!
I had a monitor on at a training session that gave a max reading well over 300bpm - we eventually worked out it was getting interference from someone else's chest strap too!
minicity said:
178bpm is quite a lot as an average for 36 mins. But, if you can do it, fine. Just build up gradually and warm down too.
I always warm up fully, and take about 20 mins to do it starting on the cross trainer then stretching then the bike. I'm less good at the warm down but do do some, usually about 4 mins of very light rowing to stop we stiffening up too much, followed by 15mins cycling where I building the heart rate back up in the first half then gradually bring it down.
scorp said:
178bpm is high but you should cope in limited bursts, providing your fit and healthy and haven't got arteries full of butter you should be ok. Not drinking high amounts of caffeine will help too (drinking redbulls and then rowing would be a silly idea).
>> Edited by scorp on Friday 24th February 13:49
Yep I eat very little butter, 1 block has been known to last me about 3 months! Occasionally drink coffee of tea, usually when sailing, but never in large amounts.
Thanks for all the replies
Hugh
hugh_ said:
178bpm is quite a lot as an average for 36 mins. But, if you can do it, fine. Just build up gradually and warm down too.
I always warm up fully, and take about 20 mins to do it starting on the cross trainer then stretching then the bike. I'm less good at the warm down but do do some, usually about 4 mins of very light rowing to stop we stiffening up too much, followed by 15mins cycling where I building the heart rate back up in the first half then gradually bring it down.
scorp said:
178bpm is high but you should cope in limited bursts, providing your fit and healthy and haven't got arteries full of butter you should be ok. Not drinking high amounts of caffeine will help too (drinking redbulls and then rowing would be a silly idea).
>> Edited by scorp on Friday 24th February 13:49
Yep I eat very little butter, 1 block has been known to last me about 3 months! Occasionally drink coffee of tea, usually when sailing, but never in large amounts.
Thanks for all the replies
Hugh
Sounds like you'll be OK. Make sure the warm down actually joins up with the big effort though. I hate seeing people stop suddenly and collapse in a heap. I almost have a heart attack just watching them.
ewenm said:
Remember the "Max Heart Rate = 220 - age" calculation is only a guideline, lots of people don't fit it. It could be that your MHR is higher so 178bpm is less than 89%. Generally, if you can do it (ie 30-40mins at average 178bpm) then it's fine. As already said, make sure you warm up and down well though.
I had a monitor on at a training session that gave a max reading well over 300bpm - we eventually worked out it was getting interference from someone else's chest strap too!
ewenm knows his stuff unsurprisingly.
I am 25 so aparently my max heart rate is 195 but I can hit 215 no problem at all, suspect my real max is about 220.
I could easily hold at 178 for half an hour as well.
I always have a very high resting heart rate, even at my peak fitness I've never managed to get below about 65. My friend ranges from about 40-180 and he is a far better athlete than me, naturally and training wise.
What is your resting and max ewenm, just out of interest?
DieselJohn said:
What is your resting and max ewenm, just out of interest?
Don't know really. Last time I was tested I think it came out at 42 resting 187 max but that was about a year ago and I've since heard that the lab I used gives occasional spurious results (especially for VO2 Max). I tend to base my training far more on how I'm feeling than what a heart rate monitor says. When doing HR-based training I found although the HR suggested I should be still in recovery between reps, experience told me I should be doing the next effort.
Lion-O said:
I am 25 so aparently my max heart rate is 195 but I can hit 215 no problem at all, suspect my real max is about 220.
215 is incredibly high. Lance Armstrong tops out at about 204. Highest I've ever managed was 196 during a periodised VO2 test.
I really don't think its a good thing. I'm no great athlete by any means.
Sitting here at my desk my heart rate is 76 bpm, which makes me out to be really unfit but I'm an 11 stone, non-smoker, occasional drinker that can easily run for an hour without stopping. My guess is I've got a fairly small heart and it has to go fast to get the blood round?
>> Edited by DieselJohn on Friday 24th February 16:04
StuB said:
10,000m takes me 36m59.5s (I'm rather proud of that
I'm impressed (if that's on a Concept II rower). Bloody young sprog - are you sure the name's not 'Huge'?
Yeah it was on a concept 3 model D. My nickname at school was huge, cos I'm 6"3-6"4 and used to be overweight so was fairly large.
Hi Hugh,
Assuming you're using the Concept 2 rower (as that's what most gyms have) get yourself down to www.concept2.co.uk/forum/ for some advice. There are some very serious health gurus
there, and all the advice you could ever possibly want.
I've just got back into going to the gym and also did 10,000m last night. My time was just over 43 minutes
, so well done.
HTH
Charles
edited to say: "must type faster...."
>> Edited by cwk on Friday 24th February 16:50
Assuming you're using the Concept 2 rower (as that's what most gyms have) get yourself down to www.concept2.co.uk/forum/ for some advice. There are some very serious health gurus
there, and all the advice you could ever possibly want. I've just got back into going to the gym and also did 10,000m last night. My time was just over 43 minutes
, so well done. HTH
Charles
edited to say: "must type faster...."
>> Edited by cwk on Friday 24th February 16:50
markbe said:
Well I'M not very fit and 54.Went on one of those all singing and dancing bike machines on holiday,did 40mins,then tried the machines age fitness test,took 16 mins, then it told me I had an age fitness of 23!!
Thats because most 23 year olds these days are chronic binge drinkers
scorp said:
Well I'M not very fit and 54.Went on one of those all singing and dancing bike machines on holiday,did 40mins,then tried the machines age fitness test,took 16 mins, then it told me I had an age fitness of 23!!
Thats because most 23 year olds these days are chronic binge drinkers
That proves I will be in good company,hic'..
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