Peak HR

[LimaDelta]

Accepted wisdom says that peak HR is 220 minus age, so for me at 40 that would be 180bpm. I regularly do interval training sessions (heavy bag, KB and C2 rower FWIW) which sees my peak HR as high as 190+ and very occasionally over 200bpm. I know nobody is going to advocate training over max HR but are short periods above going to lead to any issues for me? I'm otherwise in good health and my Polar app scores me as 'elite' which I doubt, but hey. HR monitor is a chest ECG type, so I don't doubt it's accuracy or fidelity. So do I need to turn my sessions down a notch?

[LimaDelta]

CarlosFandango11 said:

Your “accepted wisdom” is contradicted by your own experience, hence its wrong.

By definition, you can’t train over your max HR, so nothing to worry about there.

Thanks all for the advice, seems it is nothing to worry unduly about. I was treating it as a metaphorical red line, or rev limit.