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    What is your highest recorded heart rate?

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

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

      Exercise: 186
      Other: 218
    • Posts: 704 Member
      192 when I did a stress test.
    • 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.
    • Posts: 98
      213 but i was seriously exercising hard at the time. The ellliptical machine said slow down heart rate too high
    • Posts: 142
      180
    • Posts: 1,013 Member
      189
    • 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.
    • 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
    • Posts: 18,771 Member
      197 today doing intervals on the elliptical.
    • 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.
    • Posts: 230 Member
      Spider nearby? 200+


      Highest other than that? 180
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