Turbo Man's Fitness Blog: Max Heart Rate 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

Wednesday 12 January 2011

Max Heart Rate Test

One of the joys of starting training again is that there are a couple of tests I do to set the benchmarks. One of these is the max heart rate test. Of course, I could simply use the painless method of 220 - my age, that would give me a MHR of 173 (yes, I'm 47!), but as we all know this is total twaddle.

So today I did it properly, a good warm up and then hill reps on the gym bike, steadily increasing the effort level, until about the 5th rep when I really give it max, I then recover then build again through the next increasing series of hills before the last rep, and this usually produces a result a few beats higher than the first effort.

And the result? 185bpm. This is 2 beats down on my result last year so entirely in line with being one year older. I now have my first bnchmark. The next test will be in 10 days time when I do my first FTP test of the year.

Train smart folks.

2 comments:

Cavegirl said...: I'm redoing my FTP tomorrow. Great fun eh!

You are now on the road to the Outlaw LOL!; 12 January 2011 at 21:24
Daz Sharpe said...: 47! wow thats old ;-); 12 January 2011 at 22:13