Made up of atriums & ventricles the human heart pumps basically vitamin, minerals, & water to all parts of the body, especially our vital organs in the form of blood. On valentines day the heart is a symbol of love and not shape like the strongest muscle in the body. Well, your heart does matter because if it stops, well you stop & some times its a slow painful process, yikes!
The heart should be monitored for physical activity that you are trying to provide results from your type of movement (exercises). For example, a goal was to decrease body fat, monitoring your heart rate is critical to get fast results. Understanding your target heart rate zone & applying specific beats per min. for a specific amount of time will not only yield fast results, but be the most effective tool for gaging your physical activity.
How can you calculate yours? Its a couple simple math equations......
Subtract your age from 220 to get your Maximum Heart Rate:
Example 220 - 34 years young :) = 186 (beats per minute)
Take your Max HR and multiply by both 60% & 80%, this gives you your Target HR Zone for training.
Example 186 X .6 = 112
186 X .8 = 149
A 34 year young (male or female) target heart rate zone is 115 bpm - 150 bpm
How to monitor you heart rate while moving? A heart rate monitor is a must & relatively cheap now a days ($30) compared to other fitness equipment.
Now what to do with this range? Well, play games with it and have fun, shoot your heart rate high & allow it to fall & understand that moving your beats per minute throughout that range (and above too!) will give you an understanding that you always don’t have to be moving very fast to be getting benefits from you physical activity. A good example is to do a combo of walking & running (some call it intervals) to see how your heart responds to that. Hell, heart rate monitors are water proof for the pool & great to be out hiking or mtn. biking a trail!
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