Holding 200 bpm heart rate for 40 minutes!

no...

Was sweating up a storm though

If your heart didn't explode and then enter another dimension from all the work, then you would've been breathing hard. In short, no.

Your "maximum" heart rate is nowhere near really being the maximum. The human heart rate can actually go close to 300 or even more in emergencies.

I can keep my heart rate barely over 180 for 30 minutes and that is pretty unusual so I'm going to say your hr monitor was broken

At almost 50 years old, when I see 167 on the heartrate monitor, I am about 1 minute from passing out and falling off the machine. I do much harder workouts on the eliptical than I can do running.

When I wore a HR monitor, I ran a 19:10 5K and my average HR was 195.

i've averaged 194 for just over an hour in a bike race. my max was 212 at the time.

i was gasping the whole time, though.

if you weren't even breathing hard then i'd say no way.

Bad Wigins wrote:

Your "maximum" heart rate is nowhere near really being the maximum. The human heart rate can actually go close to 300 or even more in emergencies.

Any proof to back that up?

Exercise machine HR readings tend to go crazy when your hands get sweaty.

If it wasn't a monitor malfunction caused by electrical interference, then you were dehyrdrated throughout the session.

maybe/not wrote:

i've averaged 194 for just over an hour in a bike race. my max was 212 at the time.

i was gasping the whole time, though.

if you weren't even breathing hard then i'd say no way.

When I was 19 I did the almost the same as the above, but on a stationary bike. It held 195-200 for about 45min, and I was cranking hard with sweat everywhere. At the time heart rate used to have extreme ranges (not sure if it still does), so I wasn't at my max. Resting was usually low 40s (occasionally under 40 for a full 60sec count), with a max around 230. Not a troll.

Dennis Reynolds wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

Your "maximum" heart rate is nowhere near really being the maximum. The human heart rate can actually go close to 300 or even more in emergencies.

Any proof to back that up?

Atrial flutter. Differentiated from atrial fibrillation by its coordinated, regular pattern, atrial flutter is a coordinated rapid beating of the atria. Most who experience atrial flutter are 60 years and older and have some heart disorder, such as heart valve problems or a thickening of the heart muscle. Atrial flutter is classified into two types, according to the pathways responsible for it. Type I normally causes the heart rate to increase to and remain at 150 beats per minute. Rarely, the rate may reach 300 beats per minute; sometimes it decreases to 75 beats per minute.

This comes from the Heart Center, Inc. A group of medical centers located in the South East. Although it is not from exercise or an emergency, I believe this is the type of situation the poster was referring to.

It's not possible to have a heart rate over 200 bpm. If you are not breahing hard.

I ran a 10k road race, with an average heart rate off 193 bpm, with 204 max. My max heart rate is 209. It was the maximum i could sustain.

Collin wrote:

It's not possible to have a heart rate over 200 bpm. If you are not breahing hard.

I ran a 10k road race, with an average heart rate off 193 bpm, with 204 max. My max heart rate is 209. It was the maximum i could sustain.

Yes it is. I had a teammate that had a HR of 180-190 for easy runs (6:15-6:45 pace). Threshold runs would easily be 205-210 and running comfortably. He was a 29:xx 10k guy. I was the same height/weight, at the same time, I would barely break 167. Some people are just built differently.

Is this possible? wrote:

Today I held a heart rate of 197-202 bpm for 40 minutes on the elliptical. Is that even possible? I wasn't even breathing hard!

I'm 99.9% sure it was just an issue with the HR reader on that machine as that type of rate over 40 minutes is pretty much impossible to maintain even when breating really, really hard let alone if you were not breathing hard. That type of rate can be held for a minute or two tops. Unless you're just some complete guiness book freak whose body doesn't adhere to the normal rates that most humans have, but I'd put my money on it just being a machine glitch.

Try your 40-minute workout on another machine and most likely you'll get a much lower reading.

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2012xxx wrote:

Is this possible? wrote:

Today I held a heart rate of 197-202 bpm for 40 minutes on the elliptical. Is that even possible? I wasn't even breathing hard!

I'm 99.9% sure it was just an issue with the HR reader on that machine as that type of rate over 40 minutes is pretty much impossible to maintain even when breating really, really hard let alone if you were not breathing hard. That type of rate can be held for a minute or two tops. Unless you're just some complete guiness book freak whose body doesn't adhere to the normal rates that most humans have, but I'd put my money on it just being a machine glitch.

Try your 40-minute workout on another machine and most likely you'll get a much lower reading.

You're absolutely incorrect. A heart rate of 200bpm can be sustained for hours. A structurally sound heart is very resilient and capable of this.

Is this possible? wrote:

Today I held a heart rate of 197-202 bpm for 40 minutes on the elliptical. Is that even possible? I wasn't even breathing hard!

Its entirely possible, but not probably, particularly if you were not under extreme exertion. Its also possible, contrary to what one of the previous posters said, that the HR can go up to 300 bpm. I'm living proof of it, during a self imposed stress test monitoring a 12 lead ECG.

OLD SMTC SOB wrote:

Is this possible? wrote:

Today I held a heart rate of 197-202 bpm for 40 minutes on the elliptical. Is that even possible? I wasn't even breathing hard!

Its entirely possible, but not probably, particularly if you were not under extreme exertion. Its also possible, contrary to what one of the previous posters said, that the HR can go up to 300 bpm. I'm living proof of it, during a self imposed stress test monitoring a 12 lead ECG.

OOPS "probable"