Heart rates for exercise
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Heart rates for exercise
| Tue, 07-06-2004 - 1:01am |
I'm new here. I've been on a low-carb diet for around five months and have almost reached my goal. I do a Pilates class once a week (have been doing Pilates on and off for about three years) and walk fast for half an hour about four times a week.
I am 41 and when I did the i-village health check was told that my exercise zone was 90 to 152 beats a minute. I regularly reach 156, sometimes 160 during my half-hour walks. I had a health screen a couple of weeks ago - assuming that everything comes out fine (I will get the results this week) is there a problem with going over the range?
Laura

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Laura
Welcome to the board.
I'm not a personal trainer, nor am I an expert.
Lori
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HI! Welcome to the board...Congrats on just about reaching your weight loss goal! Good for you.
The heart rate range is really an average on where you heart rate should be...everyone is different. Mine is always much higher than my age range especially when I am teaching classes. The important thing is how quickly you recover. So...if you are feeling ok while exercising, you are ok. I guess you are using a heart rate monitor and they can be off a couple of beats too. We are now told to use the perceived rate of exertion instead of heart rate. If you can keep a conversation going while you are exercising, then you are ok and not causing any damage. So, you should be breathing hard but able to talk.
Hope that helps.
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I'll have to try to find a quiet spot on the path and talk to myself! My husband can't keep up with me at my normal pace, so we go slower when we walk together. I take my pulse twice during the walk: at the 15 minute mark and again at 25 minutes before I start my warm-down.
I really don't feel as though I am pushing myself - I can feel that I could go faster if I wanted to. I recover easily and I don't ache the next morning. I've been exercising regularly in one form or another for around five years now. Now, when I was in the adult swim training lesson at my local pool, then I think I was really pushing it (or the coach was pushing me)!
This is my summer walking schedule which is largely on the flat. I'll be interested to see what happens to my heart rate when I go back to my winter schedule (hill-walking)! Do you know if heat or humidity tends to push heart-rates up? It's been around 96 degrees Fahrenheit and up to 95% humidity here. I exercise in the evening, as a rule, but it's still pretty hot.
Laura
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No advise just a Hello and Welcome to the Board! Hope you'll be joining us on a regular basis!
Susan
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