[Closed] my exercising heart rate

or am i within the realms of normal...

What bit is worrying you ?

205 is impressively high at 41, but far from unheard of.

i'd heard max heart rate should be 220 minus your age...

The 205 could also just be a misreading. The rest sounds normal

The 220-age is just an approximation that is often low

What is your resting HR?

on the 205 ride, i was really really ([b]REALLY[/b]) pushing for a KOM*, i had to beat the lad who took it from me... smashed it, for the record

*i did describe my life as pathetic previously!

Try changing the battery in the HRM strap. Mine goes a bit bonkers and over-reads when it's on it's last legs.

FWIW: I'm 42, resting HR of 55 - my HR never gets above 190 but the garmin has read 220+ before.

sparkyspice - Member
What is your resting HR?

not sure... should probably know that i guess 😳

The 220 minus age is just one rather poor attempt at applying a formula to a wildly varying populace. Your resting and max heart rates are pretty much what they are and you need to work them out yourself.

At 58 my MHR should be 162 but I can sit at 172 for several minutes if I'm pushing hard on a stiff climb. Without doing a full on test I'd guess my true MHR is around 190. RHR is mid 40s.

The 220-age is [s]just an approximation that is often low[/s] complete and utter bollocks.

Just for the record, and to show that you are 'normal'!

43 and 3/4
5' 10"
14st 9lbs / 205lbs / 93kg
Resting 43bpm
Max 185 (although I haven't tried to get it any higher and probably should make more effort!!!)

Those numbers are about as normal as normal can be.

That 220 - your age thing is junk, using it mine should be 170 but its 190, I have friends of a similar age who’s max ranges from 170 to 210.

Dont waste your GP’s time, get on and ride. 🙂

reassuring info all, thanks

So I', 6ft 2 13-14st (never really weight self) and 33. My resting is 45 ish while during a half marathon I can average 185 for 1:45ish with peaks to 200. When I asked the Dr (I was in for something else) he flatly replied to worry if it suddenly changes otherwise dont. 😯

I do enjoy my Garmin watch reporting "no zone" during interval sessions! 😆

Higher than most people, but definitely within the realms of 'normal'.

Try changing the battery in the HRM strap. Mine goes a bit bonkers and over-reads when it's on it's last legs.

I'm 51 and the max I ever see is about 185bpm but will average 150bpm for most 2 or so hour mtb rides with more if I push myself/stop less.

You're fine.

From what I've read your max heart rate doesn't drop with age - it just gets harder for some people to push their body hard enough to reach it.

For the record I fluctuate between 15 & 16 stone (c. 100 - 106kg give or take), height 188cm and resting 42, max 195. Age 41

I used to ask my gp about various heart rate scenarios, blood test results etc anyway, his advice is always look at the stats as a pattern, ie, stable, increasing, decreasing. Also, focus on the big issues...height weight stability, moderate alcohol, no smoking etc.

Remembering it was when i first got the hrm and was logging everything, gps must get it all the time.

The 220-age is just an approximation that is often complete and utter bollocks.

Actually it isn't. But most people ignore the prediction interval, which is +/- 20 bpm from the mean. So you could be 20 years younger than your heart. Better analysis of older trained athletes show the effect to be shallower. But it's a guideline for the general population.

OP your values are normal and aren't dissimilar to mine, and I'm 50. Racing I try and get above 170. For the UCI World Masters I averaged 168 bpm for 4.5 hours.

Similar here too, I’m pushing 46 and regularly go high 180’s when I’m pushing...been over 200 a couple of times in the last year or so.

I used to do whole races at about 185 bpm (age 38), max was about 201 at that age (used to be more).

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and there is me,43,and i can just about get my heart rate to low 170's, resting is high 30's.

Resting 44, Max 205*. I'm 44, 15st, too short for my weight 🙂

*I wouldn't purposely try to get that on the open road on my bike as I'd likely fall off and die. I can hit it on a stair climber in the gym but it's not pretty!

i'm considering booking in to see my GP
[…] i feel fine btw

Stop with the data!

47, around 90kg (a fair weight for my lack of height).

Resting HR is somewhere in the low 60s. Average HR on an 'average' off-road ride is in the mid 150s but I can sit at low-mid 160s pretty much indefinitely. Properly pushing on hard climbs I'll see mid-180s but that's not sustainable. If the batteries in my Garmin HRM are going it'll spike into the 220s randomly.

My flat out effort max was 176. I have been a competitive runner for about 35 yrs. I could run at close to 5 min miling at around 170. I am 53 now and although I seldom measure it I know I only exercise around 150 ish, maybe a bit higher in short hard bursts but nowhere near 176.
My resting rate is still around 41 which I think still shows a good level of fitness and I like to think is a good indicator.
I dont think you can change your upper max but you can become more efficient so as you get fitter for example you can run/cycle faster at the same HR. I do think your resting HR responds to training over a long period and falls.

A friend of mine has developed a site in conjunction with a cardiolologist that downloads your historical strava data (including heart rate and power) and performs historical analysis by comparing against the aggregated group statistics. There is a blog of articles on the subject also worth a read. The intention of the site is to help people understand whether they might have a problem (such as atrial fibrulation)
Crickles.org

Simon, I love that. I have been logging data for years and what I have been looking for is a change in the pattern. I know when I have a virus/infection as I have a heart rate that is too high for the effort I am doing, or I just cannot push through to the maximum I know I can do. That way I back off a bit and go slower and enjoy the scenery rather than blowing out of my arse at every opportunity.

BTW I am 48, 75Kg, rest 55 and max 205.

Data geek and proud 🙂

Your welcome, it does have some nice comparison harting features, one where it aggrgrates you total heart rate history and plots the distribution curve, anomolies become very obvious

As I mentioned earlier, one of the strongest athletes I ride with has a 170 max HR, as well as being a good rider he's run multiple marathons. I dont think max HR is any indication of fitness one way or the other.

Rising or falling max may be a different matter.

Higher end but nothing jumps out as abnormal as others have said

Is it a soft Garmin HR strap? They are notorious for over reading, even trivial things like wind can cause them to go a bit mad

Decided to connect Strava to www.crickles.org yesterday after seeing the mention in here, this morning I can now see the stats, now I just need to make sense of them! 😆

Curious how fitness/fatigue/form differ between Stravistix and Crickles in the period 8/10/2017 to 19/11/2017...
Stravistix: 88.1/74.1/+14.0
Crickles: 89/98/-8

But then I know Stravistix has a different scale to the fitness/fatigue/form in Premium Strava, plus that date period includes my longest and third(?) longest ever ride, with those same two rides being my top two highest elevation gain rides.