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Exercise Heart Rate Review

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Are you one of the millions who think cardiovascular training is something you do for a short time after you have done your weight-training routine? And when you do, you do the same intensity for about 20 or 30 minutes then you are done? It is important that you learn the importance of your exercise heart rate, and how it can affect your total body health.

If did curls, using the same weight, for the same amount of reps, what kind of changes would you see? You would not see much because eventually, you biceps would adapt, and the growth would stop. Your heart does not work any differently. You need to change your time and intensity, no matter what your fitness goal is.

With resistance training, you determine intensity by the amount of weight you lift. Exercise heart rate training intensity is determined by the percentage of your maximum heart rate and the amount of time your heart remains at that rate.

There are four important components to training your heart rate, and they are all determined by beats per minute or bpm.

resting
recovery
anaerobic thresh-hold
max heart rate

If you have a heart rate monitor, you will be able to easily determine your resting heart rate. You will want to check it when you first wake up, before you move sit up. The longer you take your pulse, the more accurate your bpm will be, example would be 60 seconds over 30 seconds. However, a heart rate monitor will tell you right away.

Your recovery heart rate is how long it takes for your heat to get back to your resting heart rate. The average person's heart rate will drop about 20 bpm, and someone in great shape will drop about 50 bpm. It has been discovered by the experts that those whose heart rate falls less than 12 bpm, has a great risk of dying in the next 6 years, versus someone who measured 13 bpm or more. This is an eye-opener for me.

Max heart rate is determined one way, and that is when you are performing an activity to a level that you can't do anymore, then you check your pulse. The recommended way of doing this is with a heart rate monitor.

As you can see, your exercise heart rate is very important, and important to know. There are a huge variety of heart rate monitors that can do the job for you easily and be affordable. You don't need to spend a lot of money, but it would be good to invest in one.