Maximum heart rate blowout!

Muse · Apr 25, 2024

nakedfrog said:
I recall someone in here saying that the typical wrist-wearable heart rate monitors are less accurate at higher BPM. There's also some evidence that increasing your fitness can increase your max HR (and OP seems remarkably fit for his age), which has also been my anecdotal experience. When I first got my tracker, my max rate seemed to be about 172--it seemed to correlate with my activity level, when I'd hit 172 my body pretty much forced me to stop and wait for it to drop back down a little bit. I kept training with an eye towards improving my cardio fitness, it's harder to know what my max rate is now, I hit 190 during a sprint a while back, and I can continue hiking uphill when I'm at 172 now. I had asked my doctor about it, and her general advice was as long as I feel fine, don't worry about it.

I bought several chest strap HRM's and a company rep gifted me an arm-band unit asking for feedback on how I liked it. I liked that it was on my arm, but the data was crazy so I don't use it. Research online and you'll probably find (I did) that people say the chest strap ones are the most reliable. It's a bit of a pain to put them on and take them off, but I will not try the arm band one again. The one I use:

Powr Labs Heart Rate Monitor Chest Strap - ANT + Bluetooth Chest Heart Rate Monitor with Chest Strap

They use a CR2032 battery. I might get a couple hundred uses out of one battery.

Iron Woode · Apr 25, 2024

I am taking Metoprolol because of my prior heart surgery and limits my max heart rate to 120 bps. It also allows me to have a resting heart rate in the 75 - 83 bps range.

skyking · Jun 14, 2024

nakedfrog said:
I recall someone in here saying that the typical wrist-wearable heart rate monitors are less accurate at higher BPM. There's also some evidence that increasing your fitness can increase your max HR (and OP seems remarkably fit for his age), which has also been my anecdotal experience. When I first got my tracker, my max rate seemed to be about 172--it seemed to correlate with my activity level, when I'd hit 172 my body pretty much forced me to stop and wait for it to drop back down a little bit. I kept training with an eye towards improving my cardio fitness, it's harder to know what my max rate is now, I hit 190 during a sprint a while back, and I can continue hiking uphill when I'm at 172 now. I had asked my doctor about it, and her general advice was as long as I feel fine, don't worry about it.

Every time I asked, I got a similar answer. I have a case of the outta-shapes, and I am working it up daily.
My HR max is 156 by the old formula and I get pretty blown out by 140. Today I pushed on that for a while.
85% is 134 and I try to hang out there for at least 20 minutes a day.

nakedfrog · Jun 14, 2024

I've since learned that the sensor I was using then is... eh, probably not super trustworthy, I got a Coros Pace 3 earlier this year and because I'm a huge fucking nerd I wear one on each wrist and compare them. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they very much do not, and I sure hope the $250 is capable of better accuracy than the $99 one. It definitely seems to have an overall better correlation to my perceived effort level, the cheaper one definitely had times where I was suspicious that my heart rate would be either that high or that low for the given activity.

skyking · Jun 14, 2024

I find the wrist units all go for a bit of an excursion now and then, but when they are steady state they compare favorably to the fancy chest straps. It is only when you take all the raw data and compare does it statistically look bad. I just ignore the spurious moments and they come back to reality, with no change in perceived HR. I could give two shits about collecting the data, I just want to check my HR in the moment and see how it compares to how I feel. Then I can see the improvements.

Muse · Jun 14, 2024

1 handed post, had hand surgery today!

lately hitting probably 150-160 bpm near top of my 3-4x/week hike, which is steepest ~ 75 yards from peak. feeling better and better, lovin my hikes. while hand heals, looks to be basically my only fitness modality, i.e. for 6 weeks. maybe can hit gym occasionally for some light stuff and stretching if i drive.

Iron Woode · Jun 14, 2024

skyking said:
Every time I asked, I got a similar answer. I have a case of the outta-shapes, and I am working it up daily.
My HR max is 156 by the old formula and I get pretty blown out by 140. Today I pushed on that for a while.
85% is 134 and I try to hang out there for at least 20 minutes a day.

when I was in cardiac rehab they told us walking was the best way to build up heart endurance. We were to walk around a 1/2 hour each day and try to keep the heart rate above 95 and below 110 for maximum heart exercise. It worked wonders. I monitored my heart rate with my phone app as I walked around. Later on I was told to increase my heart rate to 110 - 120 while exercising. It only took about a month of doing that to see a huge improvement. I still walk almost everyday since then.

They also had us monitor how many steps we took. They targeted 5000 - 10000 per day after the second month.

skyking · Jun 14, 2024

today was my first day of double workout. I did 5 miles in two sessions totaling 82 minutes. I have no aches or pains to complain about so I will repeat this going forward. It was probably 75% over 130 HR.
I have reasons to both work out and to not go wild with it either. I will observe a 150 speed limit.

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