I have questions on Heart Rate Ranges.
I'm 43. Round up to 45 for easier math. Max is 220 - age, so my maximum heart rate is 175.
My resting heart rate is 55. (There's an app for that.) So, my range is 55-175, which is 120, so 10% is 12 bpm.
The ranges, as I understand them, are:
Fat Burning: 50-60% - 115-127 bpm
Aerobic: 60-70% - 127-139 bpm
Steady State: 70-80% - 139-151 bpm
Anaerobic: 80-90% - 151-163 bpm
Maximal: 90-100% - 163-175 bpm
First questions: Is my math right? Is my understanding of the categories right?
Second questions: What does this mean? What should I be doing? My first and foremost goal with exercise that a better-working body will lead to a better working mind. My second goal is fat burning; I weighed in at 222lbs today, which is about 22 lbs higher than my goal, but I primarily want less of a gut. My third goal is to run a 5K sometime next year with a time significantly better than the 45min I ran last year.
Yesterday, when I ran treadmill, I consciously kept the speed around 3.1 mph although I prefer to run around 4 (5K =~ 3M, so 4mph is a 5K in 45min), because that kept my bpm in the Fat Burning range. It felt odd to not push myself. (OK, I have Black Crowes' "Go Faster" in my running playlist, and when it came up, I did.) What is "the right thing", given my established priorities?
#running
I'm 43. Round up to 45 for easier math. Max is 220 - age, so my maximum heart rate is 175.
My resting heart rate is 55. (There's an app for that.) So, my range is 55-175, which is 120, so 10% is 12 bpm.
The ranges, as I understand them, are:
Fat Burning: 50-60% - 115-127 bpm
Aerobic: 60-70% - 127-139 bpm
Steady State: 70-80% - 139-151 bpm
Anaerobic: 80-90% - 151-163 bpm
Maximal: 90-100% - 163-175 bpm
First questions: Is my math right? Is my understanding of the categories right?
Second questions: What does this mean? What should I be doing? My first and foremost goal with exercise that a better-working body will lead to a better working mind. My second goal is fat burning; I weighed in at 222lbs today, which is about 22 lbs higher than my goal, but I primarily want less of a gut. My third goal is to run a 5K sometime next year with a time significantly better than the 45min I ran last year.
Yesterday, when I ran treadmill, I consciously kept the speed around 3.1 mph although I prefer to run around 4 (5K =~ 3M, so 4mph is a 5K in 45min), because that kept my bpm in the Fat Burning range. It felt odd to not push myself. (OK, I have Black Crowes' "Go Faster" in my running playlist, and when it came up, I did.) What is "the right thing", given my established priorities?
#running
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