Heart Rate recovery runs - Help! - Training

Bill S

29/12/2007 at 20:29

Can some kind soul help me on this one?

Did a max heart rate test a few months back which got to 190

Resting heart rate is 54, therefore my "range" is 136

Applied the numbers i.e. range x percentage +resting heart rate.

According to this my 70% reading should be about 149

So far so good. then read in "Heart rate Monitor training for thecompleat idiot" that 70% was a recovery run. Uuuh? found it hard work to get up to 70% - did a six mile "easy" run with a slower lady runner and average heart rate was 126! Whats going on? I thought that a 70% run was a recovery run. Am I super unfit or what? I've also tried doing the 212 minus half age formula which works out at 191.5 Can anyone help me on this one?

Johnny J

29/12/2007 at 22:29

This link may help.

Pace key

Bill S

29/12/2007 at 23:28

thanks for that - these books were getting confusing!

jim noone

30/12/2007 at 09:04

Bill - 70% of your max HR would be around 133. 70% of your Working HR is 149, as you calculated.

60% of WHR would be similar to 70% of Max HR.

Confusing, yes. Easier once you decide which figures you will use.

All the Best.

Jim.

Bill S

01/01/2008 at 14:23

Thanks Jim, the figures certainly look better that way although I still feel I'm going wrong somewhere. I did a ten miler yesterday which felt easy - average heart rate was 120. I'm due for another max heart rate test and I will use the percentages on the watch i.e. rather than working heart rate.

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