Turbo Man's Fitness Blog: Max HR Test

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'It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.' Theodore Roosevelt 23 April 1910

Thursday 5 November 2009

Max HR Test

It wasn't planned, but 60 minutes on a gym bike is not the most stimulating of sessions and so I started playing games on the bike, you know the sort of thing, max cadence for x seconds, how fast can I do a mile in etc etc. And then the thought came to me - what is my max HR? I'm 46 now so the outdated and hopelessly inaccurate "220 - your age" formula suggests my max HR should be about 174. To cut a long story short, I peaked at 187. Twice. So I guess the old ticker is in pretty good shape. Recovery was swift too. Saturday morning will be the FTP test and then I will have all of my beginning of year stats recorded. Then it will be time for the real work to begin.

Train smart folks.

1 comment:

Daz Sharpe said...: I have been off the bike for 3 1/2 weeks now and won't be able to start riding until thursday next week, its going to be hard work getting up to fitness from that gap. Good luck with the winter training.; 6 November 2009 at 07:31