How do I figure out my target heart rate?
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How To Take Your Pulse: Typically, you can feel your pulse in your wrist, thumb side with palm facing up. Use the lightest touch possible to be able to feel the beat in your artery. Use your index and your middle finger. Don't use your thumb because your thumb has a pretty strong pulse in it and it might confuse your findings. I recommend in an aerobics setting where you are trying to determine your target heart rate, to count for 15 seconds in a healthy person and then multiple that number by 4 to obtain your heart rate. You're looking for a 60 second count. \n\n220: This is the standard for Maximum Heart Rate. Each year of our life, this rate will decrease by one beat. The easiest way to find your maximum heart rate is to subtract your age from 220. \n\nResting Heart Rate: To determine your resting heart rate, take your pulse before you get out of bed in the morning. Review "How To Take Your Pulse". \n\nTarget Heart Rate Range: Beginning exercisers should work between 50% - 65%. More advanced exercisers may be comfortable in the 70% - 80% range. Remember: if you are uncomfortable, don't do it. If in doubt, ask your doctor. You should not begin an exercise program without first seeking advice from a qualified medical physician.
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This really depends on your age, weight, height and gender.\n\nYou may find BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) & AMR (Active Metabolic Rate) calculators helpful to find your Total Energy Requirement.\n\nhttp://www.preventdisease.com/healthtools/articles/bmr.html
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You might want to use the link listed below to calculate your time.  There are quite a few of these javascript programs available and all are very similar.  As a marathoner, I have found these calculators to be very useful from time to time in determining the required pace needed to achieve a specific time in a marathon.  Hope this helps.\n\nhttp://www.marathonguide.com/fitnesscalcs/pacecalc.cfm
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(Here is my layman's understanding, try some basic physiology articles)\n\nBMI only measures mass, whether that is fat, muscle or both, so it's not very accurate.\nThey say % body fat is a much better indicator.\n\nCardiovaccular fitness is not necessarily closely correlated with BMI, again %body fat is supposed to be closer, plot that if you can.\n\n>the active heart rate must be VERY flawed because how do you get all the people to try and run to the same level\n\nIf you got everyone to run or cycle to the same level, e.g. at n mph, then your active HR numbers mean something, otherwise they don't.\n\nA reasonably accurate measure of fitness for a fixed effort task (e.g. everyone run or cycle at n mph) is to take the proportional HR increase (active HR - resting HR)/resting HR, and scale this by (220 - age - average resting HR) (I think).\n\nI think you should see strong correlation between % BMI and proportional HR increase.\n\nLung capacity is somewhat correlated with fitness.\nThere is also O2 uptake capacity (possibly active HR * lung capacity/breath, or something like that).
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Hello,\n\nJogging is an aerobic exercise and of course it would be considered "cardio."  Basically, Cardiovascular exercises are those where you are using oxygen and burning glycogen and would include exercise on a treadmill, or elliptical, or jogging around a track, or using a stationary bike, etc.    You can definately burn bodyfat while doing cardiovascular exercises, but you want to make sure that you also are doing your cardio within a moderate intensity range.\n\nTo simplify, if you are a healthy individual (no medical problems that would prevent you from doing certain cardiovascular exercises - if in doubt, consult a physician before beginning a program) you can do your cardio anywhere from 20 - 60 minutes per session up to 5 times per week if necessary.  If you are just beginning, or you are very overweight, it would be good for you to start out even by walking 3 days per week to build up your cardiovascular endurance slowly.  If you have been doing some type of cardio for a while, maybe try to stick to a 3-4 day per week routine, and go at least 20 minutes per session, keeping your heart rate within a moderate range which will help you burn body fat.\n\nTo figure out what your range is, you would determine this by using a small formula to determine your heart rate ranges, from minimum to maximum.  The formula looks like this:\n\n220 - Age  x .6   and x .8\n\nSay you are 30 years old.  220 - 30 = 190    190 x .6 = 114   and 190 x .8 = 152\n\nTherefore, as a 30 year old individual, your heart range for doing cardio would be 114 - 152.   (These numbers represent your target heart ranges at 60% of your maximum and 80% of your maximum.)  Then, once you have determined this, you can take your pulse as you are doing your cardio (either at the wrist or just below the ear at the neck) and count how many beats you feel in 10 seconds and then take that times 6 to get an average beats per minute.  Since you are probably just beginning and want to burn some bodyfat, it would be good for you to stay near the lower range, around 60 - 65% keeping your heart beat around maybe 120 or so during your cardio session.\n\nThere are more accurate ways to do this, but I wanted to try to keep it simple for you and make you aware of how you know where to be when you do cardio.  A much simplier way to tell if you are training at a good pace, is called the "talk test", and all that means is that if while doing cardio you are breathing moderately and still have enough oxygen to hold a conversation with someone while you're doing it, then you should be ok.\n\nI hope this helps you a bit and wasn't too confusing.  Doing a good cardio program is not hard, it just takes a little bit of research to make sure you are doing it properly to fit your goals.  Some people are endurance athletes and want to train at higher heart ranges to do marathons, etc.  It all depends on what you want to accomplish.\n\nGood luck to you, keep up the weight training and perhaps consult a trainer if one is available where you work out.  These people should be able to help you determine how you should train and explain why you are doing what you're doing.  Enjoy.\n\n-nikemand
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What is your non resting heart rate 60-100 beats per min. is a healthy heart rate
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I am assuming that the "500 calories" you said you are burning are based on what the machine displays.  This may not always be the most accurate assessment.  I would pay more attention to your heart rate, which will be a better indicator of whether you are in your aerobic fat-burning zone or not.  This can be ROUGHLY calculated by 220 minus your age (your predicted max heart rate) multiplied by the workout intensity (usually a pretty tough workout is 75% to 80%.) eg. if you are 30 years old, 220 - 30 = 190 x .75 = 142 heart rate.  Keeping your heart rate in this age will burn fat and, of course calories.
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For aerobic exercise...\nJogging: You just need your clothes, your comfortable tennis, and a common watch to monitor your heart rate.\nIf you want to spend money you also need a wath POLAR which automatically monitors your heart rate. \nAlso you have to calculate: 220 - your age=  X\nThen train to 60 to 65% of the result(X). And that's the pulse or heart rate you must keep for at least 30 minutes to work out the aerobic way.\nIf you exceed that rate you'll be working anaerobic. And remember Aerobic helps you to reduce fat pricipally.\n\n Jogging is the cheapest and a good aerobic exercise you can monitor it.
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Pulse= 60-100\nRespiratory rate= 12-20\nTemperature = 96.8 - 98.6\nBlood Pressure = 120/80\nYour weight has to be preportionate to your height.
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60-80 beats per minute is considered a normal heart rate.
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Unfortunately you can't tell how many calories are burned with your heart rate that I know of, I could be wrong tho, it's happened before! lol  \n  If you go to your yahoo search engine and type in "calorie expenditure chart" you'll see some charts there for calorie burning.  If spinning isn't on the chart, just double what you see for bike riding.  Good for you-spinning is a great fat burner, and what it does for your legs is unbelievable!  good  for you!
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That depends on several factors like your age, conditioning, and incline on the treadmill.  Best thing to do is go by your target heart rate.   \n\nCalculate your target heart rate here:\nhttp://www.preventdisease.com/healthtools/articles/thr.html\n\nIf you're a beginner, you should be in the lower range of your target heart rate.  If you're intermediate you can try the middle or higher ranges.  \n\nYou can also use the talk test.  If you running/jogging and you can still speak in sentences, your exertion level is right on.  If you can't speak in sentences, slow down.\n\nYou can also check the speed value definitions on this calculator to give you a rough idea of what speed is considered slow or brisk.\nhttp://www.preventdisease.com/healthtools/articles/while_walking.html\n\nAnd if you would like to estimate your VO2 Max at a novice level, you can do that here:\nhttp://www.preventdisease.com/healthtools/articles/rockport.html\n\nIf you are not used to exercising, you should calculate your exercise risk here before you begin:\nhttp://www.preventdisease.com/healthtools/articles/exercise_risk.html
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a few millivolts on the order of 60-120 Hz, depending on your heart rate.
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I'm in the same situation, so I jog/run/hike.  And do pushups.  Anything that gets your heart rate up for 15-20 a day.  And diet is really important at our point in the weight-loss cycle.  We can't just do diet OR exercise, we have to do both.
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age and weight are ok, you do need to see a doctor about the heart rate it is too high. It may not be a "heart condition" per se, do you get anxiety attacks, and chronically check your pulse? Either way, you need to be seen by a doctor. Normal pulse rate is around 80 bpm.
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60-80 beats per minute
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nobody can give you the right answer unless you have given them your body weight, height, and the intensity level at which you jog (as determined by the heart rate you maintain for that half hour)...\n\nall other answers would be a guess and might not even be close for your estimates...\n\ngood luck