Is my heart rate too high during workouts?

10/10

It’s amazing that you’ve duped this message board into believing you’re a talentless, whiney, self important, condescending teen runner. Keep it up. I wanna keep track of all the suckers on this board.

Disko Eric wrote:

10/10

It’s amazing that you’ve duped this message board into believing you’re a talentless, whiney, self important, condescending teen runner. Keep it up. I wanna keep track of all the suckers on this board.

Why are being mean to mean? How would you know if I am talentless?

It would depend on what your maximum heart rate is and how long or under what conditions your heart rate was 198 bpm. Also, some wrist based HRMs can give unreliable readings although they are probably more often low than high. I used to run with a group of coworkers who were all able to run say 8 miles at around 7:00 min/mile pace. One of the guys had a max HR of 220 and one had a max HR of 165. If your max HR is as high as 220 then if you hit 198 you are at 90% of max and for some workouts this is appropriate (track intervals, hill repeats). If your max HR is in fact 198 then yes you are running too hard. If you want to figure out what your max HR is one frequently suggested workout is 3 x 800M all out with insufficient recovery between the intervals. By the 2nd or 3rd interval if you are running as fast as you can you should spike your HR at your maximum late in the interval. The absolute HR number is not as important as what % of your maximum you are running at

Before you listen to any of these ramblings check that the watch is not latching on the cadence. It happens all the time. If you have a chest strap use that and clear it out

Is it really hot where you live? Heat influences heart rate a lot.

Hardloper wrote:

Just run baby.

100% this.

Juice Springsteen wrote:

Is it really hot where you live? Heat influences heart rate a lot.

It isn't hot

Don’t worry about the redditors on lets run that want to feel better by telling an 18 year old that they suck.

ELong1229) wrote:

Don’t worry about the redditors on lets run that want to feel better by telling an 18 year old that they suck.

he's actually 45

MY HEART RATE IS TOO HIGH WHILE RUNNING AS WELL AND MY PEEPEE IS SMALL WHY HAS GOD FORSAKEN ME

Talentless? This barely a sport my. stfu

Apple Watch is fairly accurate, believe it or not.

198 isn't crazy if you're young. At the end of a repeat workout it would be easy to get to your heart rate max. If this was a true "hard interval" workout, nothing to see.

If this was supposed to be something like tempo-paced intervals, you are probably going too hard.

David45, I agree with hardloper: "just run baby" and with Swim Bike Run: "you just need to run, dude".

Case study: A person very close to me recorded HRs of 220 bpm during hard workouts when he was in his early 30s. His running buddies gave him plenty of good-natured abuse as a result. He checked with his doctor because he was concerned. The doctor did an EKG test, and said all was fine. Almost 30 years later, he is still reaching HRs higher than what the equations predict, and he is still taking sh*t from his running buddies.

Heart rate (HR) of 198 is not a problem in an 18 year old, as long as you don't have one of the rare conditions that increase your risk of a cardiac electrical malfunction. See your care provider if you are truly concerned. Those conditions are sufficiently rare that widespread screening for them is not considered a good use of medical resources.

The old equation for max HR (Max HR = 220-Age) is from Fox, Naughton, & Haskell (1971, hard to find). More recent and better studies have found somewhat different equations. A HR of 198 is OK in a healthy young person.

Individuals vary. For example, Gulati et al. (2010) report a standard deviation of 12 beats per minute (bpm) about the predicted line for max HR vs. age, which means 32% of subjects have a max HR at least 12 bpm lower or higher than the HR predicted by the equation.

Multiple studies, such as Tanaka, Monahan, & Seals (2001), have shown that max HR in an individual is not correlated with fitness, but resting HR is (negatively) correlated with fitness.

zage canaday wrote:

Unless your HR is above 200, you get no benefits from intervals. Source: yahoo answers.

Actually LOL'd and spit out my coffee.

David -- you've said you're 18 (developing athlete) and have run some very very slow times so far. That's fine; you can improve.

In the meantime, you don't need to know your HR. Just run. Until your times get down to much much faster, it's all about just getting fit on a basic level.