How to Calculate Your Maximum Heart Rate

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Training using a heart rate monitor is a wise idea. You can accurately determine the fat burning and fitness building zones to train in. You know when you’re overdoing it, or when you need to ramp it up, and you can easily measure your improvements along the way. The heart never lies isn’t that what they say! The same goes during your workout, even if you feel like you’re dying but your heart rate shows you’re ok, keep going!!

Training with a heart rate monitor watch and strap is the easiest way to measure your heart rate, but simply taking your pulse and counting the beats works fine too. Count the beats over a six second period and add a zero to get your beats per minute. Why don’t you try it right now in front of the computer? Find your pulse in your wrist or your neck. Count how many beats you have in 6 seconds. Lets say you had 6 beats in 6 seconds. Add a zero and that means you have a resting heart rate of 60 beats per minute (bpm). You would do the same thing in a workout.

To calculate your correct training zones, there are 2 methods, the easy method and the hard method!

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