What is your average heart rate while exercising?

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Doc0862 wrote: »

bathmatt12345 wrote: »

A good rule of thumb for sustained average HR is 180-age. Max is 220-age, You can move the first number with training but typically it is a hard workout if you can stay around the 180-age mark. I'm 47 so that would mean 133 for me, I tend to workout at an average of 140-145.

A fun test is to get on a bike, dreadmill, ellipical and go for 30 minutes after being warmed up and measure your average HR, you will find it will slowly go up as you get in better shape. Also look at your Cal/hour values and that too will increase. You will be able to get more power out of your body, and that's the point

Yeah i'm 53 and just started doing anything exercise related in Jan. At first I went 1 min on my elliptical and was at 145 and really huffing and puffing... my friends told me to go to the doctor LOL... I didn't. I looked it up and found my age weight calculator (sorry don't remember where) and it recommended I be at 130 - 135 with a max at 145 to 150 over that was danger. So i just kept going to the max every day and the time kept getting longer and longer. Now after only 4 weeks I went 20 min and never even hit 135 and I now have the resistance on high Level 10, I also increased to trying to do 20 min both morning and night but my schedule is crazy. I have a rowing type machine (old style) called a cardio glider which is a seat that usues your weight as resistance along with a cylinder and again when i first tried it i would only do 10 reps and be huffing... now I also do 20 min on it and that translates into about 550 reps on average. All this after only 6 weeks so I am quickly becoming a believer in all of this.
Before jan I never gave a thought to food or exercise... I woke up 2 days after Christmas with a nightmare that i was dying of a heart attack. It got my attention because everyone was saying "I don't like the way your breathing brother" and I had simply walked 25 feet....

So far I've dropped 34 pounds and like I said not breathing hard unless i work hard. Heart rate has settled at about 127 to 134 every workout for the last week anyway.
OP -Thanks for this post it is good and helped me.

All the best on your continued weight loss Doc0862 and getting into the kind of shape you should be in at age 53 for longevity. You will be amazed once you get sub 200 pounds and continue your quest at taking control of your health. Hopefully all of this can reverse the unfortunate health issues you have driven yourself into...