Resting Heart Rate - What is Normal? Normal Ranges?? (Page 2)

Exactly.  Well said.

Very interesting!!

I've also heard it said that a good indicator of how fit you are is how quickly your HR comes down after exercise or if it drops by so many bpm after 1 minutes. 

I believe it said something like, once you get your HR up to 75% or 80% of MHR and hold it there a couple of minutes. ... then stop exercising and count down 1 minute.

If after that 1 minute of rest if your HR comes back to some percentage of your MHR (or is it WHR - Working Heart Rate, is there such a thing ...??)

Anyhow, does anyone know what I'm talking about?

I think I don't have a very large range.  I have an Extremely hard time getting my HR about 150 and the highest I've been ever to get my HR is 156 bpm (that I know of and have been able to measure.)

So, if my RHR is around 54-56 and my max is 156 ... that is only a 100 point spread.

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Well,

I really don't know what I'm talking about and I know I must be using some terms incorrectly.  I was trying to read a thread about LT (the so-called master thread on Lactate Threshold) but I got too confused and still don't understand it.

I just use the old method of 220 - my age, times 75% or 80% or whatever .... and I'm just assuming that 220 - my age is my MHR.  For me that would be 220 - 43 = 177 for a Max Heart Rate.

Then at 75% my WHR (Working Heart Rate??) would be 132.75, at 80% 141.60, at 85% 150.45  (Hmm.... I never really calculated it out like that, always just guess-timated that 136 to 146 would be about where I need to train at ....)

But even using this old method, I still do not know exactly what to train at, 75%, 80%, 85% ??? 

I was in the gym a few months back and a trainer was working out one of her clients and I heard him say something about getting his HR up to 166 or 175 or maybe even 180 or something ... and it totally blew my mind.

I was wondering just how hard does he have to work to get there ... cause like I was saying, I was peddling that damn Eliptical machine as fast a I could, so fast it was rocking side to side and I nearly fell off, and the highest I could get my HR was 156.

So I didn't know if that meant I was way out of shape and unable to reach my 85% rate, or if I was in pretty decent shape and even with intense exercise my heart only needed to beat 156 bpm.

But then again, I've read that 220 - Age, times some percentage is not so accurate and that really someone needs to figure out what their LT is and go from there .... but then I get lost ...

So, I measured my RHR at 54, 55, and 56 the past 3 days, so my avg. RHR is 55.  If I can only get my HR up to 156 during very intense exercise (what I incorrectly posted as my Max Heart Rate I do believe ... I meant to say the Max or Highest I've been able to get it up to ...) ... that this gives me a range of 100 or 101 to be exact .... which according to the previous poster ... is a better indication of fitness ... having a wide range.

But I also heard how quick your HR comes down is also a good indicator ... and I would really like to fully understand about LT and how to figure that out and go from there and find my HR Zone 2 .....

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