When you take percentage of your MaxHR, do you just take e.g. 70% of 200 or use some formula?
When you take percentage of your MaxHR, do you just take e.g. 70% of 200 or use some formula?
take 70% of 200, if 200 is your max. You can also use a formula that uses both your minimum and maximum heart rates, might be more accurate that way.
smartymcsmartpants wrote:
take 70% of 200, if 200 is your max. You can also use a formula that uses both your minimum and maximum heart rates, might be more accurate that way.
Yes, I wanted to find out which of them to use. And there's quite a diffrence between the bpm between the two ways so how should you calculate the percentage.
wear your heart rate monitor on a 5 km race and add 3 - 5 bpm to the heart rate max of that race. There you are. For most people that is quite accurate.
kris wrote:
wear your heart rate monitor on a 5 km race and add 3 - 5 bpm to the heart rate max of that race. There you are. For most people that is quite accurate.
Accurate for what? I already know my MaxHR and that's not the question.
Anonym wrote:
kris wrote:wear your heart rate monitor on a 5 km race and add 3 - 5 bpm to the heart rate max of that race. There you are. For most people that is quite accurate.
Accurate for what? I already know my MaxHR and that's not the question.
Then what the f is your question? What is 70% of 200? I'll leave that to your calculations.
Then what the f is your question? What is 70% of 200? I'll leave that to your calculations.
Ok to clarify even more.
How do you get 70% of 200 for easy runs.
Do you use a formula with MaxHR and RestHR like(200 – 45) x 70/100 + 45 = 154
OR just take 70% of 200 and get 70%, in this case 140.
Whats most commonly used and a better measurement for easy/recovery runs or whatever run.
Factoring in the resting HR is the Karvonen method.
I think it is the better of the two methods.
Percentage of MaxHR is simply that -- percentage of MaxHR. 70% of 200 is 70% of 200, or 140.
If you want the "other measurement", it's called "Heart rate reserve", "% of HRR", or "Karvonen" (which factor in resting HR).
Some people seem to like Karvonen better (because than they can train harder?)
Beginners like it, because otherwise easy running is too slow. I think Karvonen makes more sense for advanced athletes rather than beginners.
also look at daniels formula.. when they discuss heart rate reserve they use a different percentage to equate to a raw percentage of heart rate max.
thats why 70% yields such a big difference in your calculations.