Workout Tip: Track your resting heart rate
Tracking your resting heart rate is a good way to prevent burnout and is a great guide to determining what type of workout is appropriate on any given day. Much like weighing yourself daily, you can use fluctuations in your resting heart rate to determine when you are...How to Discover Your Effective Maximum Heart Rate
The Health and Fitness blog has an article about heart rate monitors. The article relates a story about how some joggers in the park were put off by the auther not providing the time because he was wearing a heart rate monitor and not a watch, and gives the usual 220 minus your age for finding your max heart rate. I include a discussion about a better way to calculate the max heart rate.
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