Need some understanding

nebblkshts
nebblkshts Posts: 3 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I am 46 now and over the last year, I stopped maintaining my weight. I have been looking for better workouts and tracking everything from food to workout statistics. I bought an apple series 3 watch and have a few apps to track calories burned, heart rate, food intake, etc. I found the heart rate analysis app that takes in the heart rate from the workouts. What I see is on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays I do a 30-minute treadmill workout with intervals. The heart analysis shows I maintain a heart rate of 175-183 for 60-68% if the workout. Is this doing me more harm than good? I read you should only be at 85% of your max and my max for my age is 175. Is this unhealthy?

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  • jjpptt2
    jjpptt2 Posts: 5,650 Member
    You're fine. The benefit of HR zones is overstated for most people. There are advanatages to HR-based training, but mostly for people with endurance cardio goals (long distance runners/cyclists, triathletes, etc), or probably those with heart/health issues.

    Assuming you're reasonably healthy and are simply trying to improve fitness and/or manage weight... HR zones are basically useless to you.
  • AllanMisner
    AllanMisner Posts: 4,140 Member
    The recommendation for max heart rate is an average, which is right for most people. But that doesn't count outliers (I'm an outlier) who typically get their heart rate higher than that for much of their training time. How do you feel during this workout? Do you get dizzy or light headed? How quickly does your heart rate recover during the slow parts of intervals and after the workout?

    Allan Misner
    NASM Certified Personal Trainer
    Host of the 40+ Fitness Podcast
  • nebblkshts
    nebblkshts Posts: 3 Member
    During the workout, I am fine there are times like this holiday where I can not go the gym Monday so Wednesday when I run I get light headed right after I finish because it feels like it tougher than Friday I also might get a headache. I have noticed I have had less energy over the last year which when I saw that under the heart rate info made me nervous. During the slow parts took one minute to get down from 169 to 151. The Recovery after two minutes was from 178 to 109.
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