I am a 59 year old weighing 11 stone who has done no exercise at all for 20 years at least but is in good general health. Just taken up training and have bought a heart rate monitor. I am training at around 80% of a calculated maximum rate rate
I've just come back from running the Plymouth half marathon and for the first time I thought I'd keep a check on my heart rate for the duration of the race.Imagine my horror to notice that for the full 1 hour 40 mins my heart rate bounced off 195
Hi all First post. Just started running at beginning of December to train for a half marathon in March. I found running 1.5 miles really hard then but am now up to 9 miles on my weekend 'long run' at a 8.25 pace. My concern is my heart rate. I feel
I am just wondering if anyone has any information regarding how regular running will change my heart rate when training? I have a max of 187 and during the 5k Parkruns my avg has been 173bpm (for approx 29mins). This feels like a huge workload
I have a pretty low heart rate, around 55 BPM. However, after say a half hour of fairly intensive exercise, although my heart rate drops quickly from say 160 BPM back down to under 100 BPM, say within a matter of 2-3 mins, it takes almost 2 hours
Hello everyone, just a question about heart rates. I know they say the optimum training HR is between 60%-80% but does anyone know what advised heart rates are for set race distances? I would presume for example that a half marathon would have a
I want a heart rate monitor and I am not sure which to get please suggest. I specifically want it to record calorie expendidture as my inital priority is fat loss. i like the suunto t6c, has a good pc set up but i know others who lov eth epolar. See
Hi,I was wondering if anyone could give me some suggestion on heart rate monitors. I am currently training for my first marathon - and want to keep track of distances as well as how hard I am working. I have no experience of heart rate monitors
was of an elite standard (suprising but great!) and calculated my heart rate as such. However on my first run I had not reached the first half mile before my heart rate was sky high (180 ish) and the HRM was instructing me to slow down. Is this normal? I didn
Hi,I have a little question. I am training for the marathon and am following the Runners World training routine. The routine gives you pace references, ie run 6M at 60-65% Working Heart Rate, so I got myself an all singing and dancing Heart Rate
