my girlfriend has just started running seriously again after having most of year off studing for final year, just getting back so understand she isnt to fit but her heart rate seems to high, just wondering what it means, when she monitors her heart rate it gets to about 160 and she's just jogging not even out of breath really, is this just because she isnt fit.
any ideas??
I weigh 150lbs do I weigh too much?
High heart rate compared to what? Unless you know her max, it means NOTHING! It is the same as weight being meaningless outside of the context of height. If you are 4-6 and weigh 150, maybe you should go on a diet, 6-8/150 ... maybe you should eat some more.
Her maximum heart rate is probably around 200, so 160 is normal for a steady run, and a good heart rate for her to build her basic endurance.
Some young people have a maximum of 170 and some older people have a maximum of 210, so don't believe anything written which does not take these huge differences into account.
cheers jonno. new i would get some sort of decent responce from you. i no 160 would be ok for steady run but the way she describes it is as if she's barely doing anything, more jogging pace, she usually just ignores it and runs at her own pace but this results in heart rate up to 185 for a run she describes as steady.
Maybe her max is 210 or more, or maybe she will not be able to maintain 185 in a few weeks. Either way, heart rates vary a lot from one person to another. Heart rates also vary a lot from one training period to another.
It's too early to tell if she is training well or overtraining, that is to say running too fast to bring about long term improvement. It will become apparent in the next few months.
I always thought being able to maintain a high heart rate was a sign of fitness. Lance Armstrong maintains 190 bpm for time trials lasting ~1 hr (max is 201). It is my understanding that to be running at 160 bpm and feel like it's jogging (in terms of breathing and leg fatigue) and to feel like 185 is steady running is a sign of a high lactate threshold (assuming a max of ~200). As her fitness improves, her pace at a given heart rate should improve
In the case of someone making a comeback after some time out of regular training, it is best to compare heart rate information over several months to check on progress, rather than to assume that the initial training heart rates can be sustained or improved upon.
A sustained high heart rate is not necessarily a good thing, because with increased blood volume and increased stroke volume of the heart, both of which are gained with improved endurance fitness, heart rates may often go down rather than up.
This may mean that heart rate at lactate threshold and maximum heart rate become lower rather than higher.
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