Heart rate up!

nealsland
nealsland Posts: 18 Member
edited November 15 in Fitness and Exercise
There's no way I'm driving my clean waxed truck today in the rain so I'm riding the trainer at home. I like to get my heart rate up several times while riding. I rode 20 min first thing and I thought I would jump on it every hour for 10 min to get it up again in between house chores. You think that will have an impact on weight loss???

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  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
    I doubt it makes much of a difference. Why not just do it all at once and get it out of the way? Sounds like torture to do 10 mins of cardio every hour.
  • nealsland
    nealsland Posts: 18 Member
    I always hear it's good to bring your heart rate up at different intervals so in theory I thought it would be a good thing for an extended period of time. A good hard 10 min.
  • esjones12
    esjones12 Posts: 1,363 Member
    Usually in interval training you wait until your heart rate drops to a certain range and then go right back up to another range. When I do it I will run between 160-170 for awhile and then when I walk I let my HR drop to 132 and then I start running again. So if you are aiming for the benefits people associate with interval training, what you described would not be the same thing in my opinion. But it is still exercise and is better than not doing anything!
  • nealsland
    nealsland Posts: 18 Member
    esjones12 wrote: »
    Usually in interval training you wait until your heart rate drops to a certain range and then go right back up to another range. When I do it I will run between 160-170 for awhile and then when I walk I let my HR drop to 132 and then I start running again. So if you are aiming for the benefits people associate with interval training, what you described would not be the same thing in my opinion. But it is still exercise and is better than not doing anything!

    Now that you mention it, I've heard that before.
  • 30mphmike
    30mphmike Posts: 28
    esjones12 wrote: »
    Usually in interval training you wait until your heart rate drops to a certain range and then go right back up to another range. When I do it I will run between 160-170 for awhile and then when I walk I let my HR drop to 132 and then I start running again. So if you are aiming for the benefits people associate with interval training, what you described would not be the same thing in my opinion. But it is still exercise and is better than not doing anything!

    Good advice..

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