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What is your highest recorded heart rate?

PhilipHall
PhilipHall Posts: 37 Member
edited October 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Mine is 199. I'm curious if this is high.

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  • chef970
    chef970 Posts: 196 Member
    184
  • Unwrapping_Candy
    Unwrapping_Candy Posts: 487 Member
    Highest due to exercise or other?

    Exercise: 186
    Other: 218
  • glockster972
    glockster972 Posts: 704 Member
    192 when I did a stress test.
  • mangledspoon
    mangledspoon Posts: 31 Member
    I got 209, but I have a suspicion it may have been by HRM playing up. The highest before that was 195.
  • amberrrogers
    amberrrogers Posts: 98
    213 but i was seriously exercising hard at the time. The ellliptical machine said slow down heart rate too high
  • shankleefranklee
    shankleefranklee Posts: 142
    180
  • jennmoore3
    jennmoore3 Posts: 1,013 Member
    189
  • UpEarly
    UpEarly Posts: 2,555 Member
    That answer would be different depending on how old I was when I measured my highest heart rate.

    Your maximum heart rate changes as you age. When I was in my early 20's, I could get it up to around 200 for short bursts when I was interval training. Now that I'm 40, it rarely gets up to 175 or so - even when I'm doing tough anaerobic bursts. For most of my workouts, I like to keep my heart rate between 140-150.

    At your age, 199 sounds unusually high - but max heart rate can vary greatly from person to person. If I were you, I might consider running that number by your doctor just to be sure.
  • brit49
    brit49 Posts: 461 Member
    179, I would like it a little lower I have had a EKG routine physical and all blood work normal. I no longer jump rope now so it about 120
  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
    197 today doing intervals on the elliptical.
  • Ayla20103005
    Ayla20103005 Posts: 104 Member
    180 during an RPM class, but I am quite fit. I never had a HRM when I was really unfit, so id imagine it would have gone higher then, and not gone down very fast. Now it comes down really fast too.
  • 3ur3ka
    3ur3ka Posts: 230 Member
    Spider nearby? 200+


    Highest other than that? 180
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