Maximum heart rate: different for women?
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Maximum heart rate: different for women?
| Mon, 07-11-2005 - 12:35pm |
Hi all,
I recently got a Polar heart rate monitor (yay!). This works great: i now can see where i was spiking my heart rate too high or where i was going too easy in my workouts.
However, are there gender differences for how Maximum Heart Rate is calculated? The Polar booklet that comes with the monitor uses the formula 220 minus age, and the booklet has a chart of heart rate ranges for ages based on this calculation. However, the Walking Site has a note that the formula is 226 minus age for women (at http://www.thewalkingsite.com/thr.html).
Do you gals generally use 226 or 220 as your starting number? Now that i've invested my money i want to make sure i'm using this monitor correctly!
many thanks, in advance...
fuchsia
Edited 7/11/2005 12:36 pm ET ET by fuchsia_g

There are a couple of formulas.