Max heart rate and average while exercising

padfoot_hound
padfoot_hound Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi,

I'm 28, 83kg, 177cm and calculated my max heart rate to be 188-190.

During regular bodyweight training my HR shoots up to 180-190 and that's not pushing as hard as i could.

Today I went for a 7km run (5:30min/km) and my average HR was 172. At one point it actually hit 189.

Is this something i should worry about? I feel fine and don't get any chest pains.


Tom.

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  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    If you calculated your max heart rate with a formula, that's a little bit more accurate than rolling dice. Your true mHR is probably higher than the formula predicts. Hey, it happens with the weather, too.

    The only way to really find it is to do a test where you increase the intensity of your exercise until you can't anymore.

    But it's better and more useful to find your lactate threshold HR than your max HR.
  • Azdak
    Azdak Posts: 8,281 Member
    The range of "normal" for true HRmax is probably 0-35 beats/min above (or below) any estimated HRmax figure.
  • wyhone
    wyhone Posts: 13 Member
    NorthCascades wrote: »
    If you calculated your max heart rate with a formula, that's a little bit more accurate than rolling dice. Your true mHR is probably higher than the formula predicts. Hey, it happens with the weather, too.

    The only way to really find it is to do a test where you increase the intensity of your exercise until you can't anymore.

    But it's better and more useful to find your lactate threshold HR than your max HR.

    What is a lactate threshold HR?
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    LTHR is basically the highest intensity that you can sustain at a steady state.
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