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ASK FLASH:
You Gotta Have Heart … Rate

Posted April 15th, 2007 at 4:45 PM by Joshua Flash Gordon

Section: Running & Training, Columns, Training Tips, Health & Fitness, Ask Flash

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Heart Rate Training is an invaluable tool to ensure that you are doing the right effort for the purpose of any given run. It provides a great mechanism for making sure your easy days are sufficiently easy and your hard days are sufficiently hard.

Before getting to the questions, let’s take a quick peak at some of the formulas used to calculate maximum heart rate.
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Heart Rate Training

Posted January 21st, 2007 at 2:00 PM by Emily Hoskins

Section: Running & Training, Training Tips, Health & Fitness, Exercise

Monitoring your heart rate during exercise is an excellent way to improve performance, avoid overtraining, and track your progress. Heart rate training is popular because it is easy to monitor and for most athletes if offers a practical way to measure exercise intensity. Heart rate training relies on the fact that as your exercise intensity increases so does your body’s demand for oxygen.

It is important to monitor your exercise intensity because (1) there are different physiological adaptations associated with training that depends on the intensity being implicated, and (2) you can manipulate your entire training program to reach your own personal goals based upon your specific sport or event.
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Running and the Maximum Heart Rate Formula

Posted December 23rd, 2006 at 12:00 PM by Hariz Siddiqui

Section: Running & Training, Health & Fitness

Many of the standard tests used to measure heart function are based on a nonsensical Maximum Heart Rate formula, that predicts the fastest your heart can beat and still pump blood through your body.

Although this formula is the golden standard used today, it is not based on science.

In 1970, a good friend, Sam Fox, was the director of the United States Public Health Service Program to Prevent heart disease. He is one of the most respected heart specialists in the world. He and a young researcher named William Haskell were flying to a meeting. They put together several studies comparing maximum heart rate and age.
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