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Only Hearts

Watch your heart, heartbeat, and training goals

Like any other muscle, the heart becomes stronger and more effective the more you "exercise" that, especially if you keep training your heart to the ceiling. If you want to know how well and effectively with whom you are training your heart during exercise, you need to monitor your heart rate.

The heart is your body pump blood. Despite its small size (about the size of your fist) in relation to other parts of the body is a body composed of very powerful muscles called cardiac muscles strong.

The heart muscles involuntarily work, ie you can not control at will. Throughout the day, expand and contract in a regular rhythm, as the heart pumps blood rich in nutrients and oxygen to the rest of your body.

His heart, therefore, plays a crucial role in the proper and normal functioning of your body. If oxygen and nutrients do not reach their destinations in the right quantity and at the right time, your body begins to suffer.

You need to keep your heart strong and healthy and fit through regular exercise. Exercising regularly and with intensity properly, can maintain the strength of your heart or improving it to withstand higher voltage (eg, as in the case of the active and the people involved in sport).

In this article, learn about two major types of heart rates you need to be aware of what they strive for fitness goals-maximum heart rate and target heart rate.

Maximum heart rate

When you are not doing anything physically stressful or strenuous, your heart beats in normal rhythm, habitual. This rate is called your resting heart rate (RHR HRrest or). When you exercise or participate in vigorous activity, your heart beats faster to compensate for the oxygen and nutrients to different parts of your body.

However, his heart has its limits. This upper limit is known as the maximum heart rate, often referred to as maximum heart rate or maximum heart rate (FCM). Expressed in bpm or beats per minute, the speed at which the heart beats and pumps blood without showing faster and more erratic (Ie fibrillation, atrial or ventricular fibrillation). Your maximum heart rate varies according to age and sex.

Maximum heart rate It is also often associated with maximal oxygen consumption. As your heart rate approaches its maximum oxygen consumption is also close to its point maximum. This rate of maximum oxygen consumption VO2max called signals and their aerobic capacity and fitness.

The determination of the maximum heart rate

For an accurate reading of your maximum heart rate, undergo a stress test supervising physician's heart. You will need a dedicated team for it and the cost is often costly.

A simpler method, but does not match with the precision of a stress test cardiac laboratory-based, you can calculate your maximum heart rate with a pulse. All you need is to have normally pulse and using a formula. There are several formulas for this and varying levels of confidence and degrees of accuracy.

Fortunately, you can find a compromise between the face of cardiac diagnostic testing and self-made-with-formula method. This implies an average use rate monitors heart. Many people, both athletes and non athletes use heart rate monitors to monitor your heart rate and to determine your target heart rate.

Target heart rate and its benefits

HRmax addition, another type of heart rhythm that want to track the target rate of so-called heart, which some call the heart rate training. This value is expressed as a percentage of your maximum heart rate and refers to the heart rate you need for exercise to benefit from exercise. A precise calculation of heart rate takes into account of HRmax, your current physical condition, your current fitness and prior training or activity level.

The scope of their target heart rate depends your fitness goal. For example, if you work out so that you can burn love handles, you should target heart rate is 60 to 70 percent your maximum heart rate. At that distance, the body goes into fat burning zone.

Again, there are several methods and formulas to determine the pace heart. In general, the simplest way is to multiply the intensity range of your maximum heart rate. Therefore, if you are pointing to the love handles, is 60% and 70% of HRmax and keep your heart rate within that range when you exercise.

A more specific calculation accounts of their resting heart rate (RHR or rest). The latter method uses the Karvonen formula. Another method uses the formula Zoladz, which is subtracting "adjusted" values ​​(based on expected intensity zone or level) of HRmax.

If you find the manual calculation of heart rate complicated, you can always use electronic calculators online or invest in a reliable and accurate center clock rate monitor so you can track your pace training heart rate and progress of the exercise.

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