Understand Your Exercising Heart RateYou can use this chart to find your optimal exercise heart rates by using your resting heart rate and your age. This chart is based on the Karvonen Formula. Maximum Heart Rate 100% is the level of your heart rate at its maximum intensity. It is your survival heart rate. For example; if there was a fire and you had to gather your belongings, flee a building, and get out to your car, by the time you reached your car, your pounding heart would probably have reached its maximum heart rate, its 100%. It is your "fight or flight" heart rate. You won't die at that heart rate, but, you only have 9 seconds of energy at that intensity. The fuel our bodies uses during emergencies such as this is glucose or "sugar" (carbohydrate), not body fat. Our bodies store a small amount of "sugar" in our muscles (called glycogen) and there is glucose traveling around in our blood. Glucose is the only fuel our brain uses, so when we use up this blood sugar during a high impact aerobics class, we feel fatigued, hungry, and sometimes dizzy during or afterwards. Sports Heart Rate Optimal Heart Rate - for cardiovascular fitness and burning body fat Most enlightened exercise specialists now agree with the ACSM that the optimal heart rates during exercise should reach an intensity of 60% or less. |
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