January Indoor Challenge

[WindingRoad]

All right then that makes me feel better :-) Indy I don't feel bad at 186 but I can definitely tell it's hard. I also notice my HR on average is higher in spin classes which I think is because the rooms are so hot. I have gone up as far as 190 but not recently because it made me concerned. I guess what made me start thinking about this was a physiology lecture I attended earlier today and she said that your heart becomes less efficient at 180-200 BPM due to the fact that your heart has to have a certain amount of time between beats to fill with blood again. She also said that exercise over time drops your average HR but it was making me think then why now am I noticing such a high HR, of course I wasn't always an active person so who knows what a spin class might have done to me in my 20's??? Ok now I am rambling....

[rubysoho]

I guess what made me start thinking about this was a physiology lecture I attended earlier today and she said that your heart becomes less efficient at 180-200 BPM due to the fact that your heart has to have a certain amount of time between beats to fill with blood again.

That is interesting. I wonder if there is more information about it out there.

Reading about other people's heartrates makes me think I might talk to my GP next week (going in for some back pain I've been dealing with). My HR will spike up pretty quickly, and relatively high compared to what is listed here. I know I am around the 180 range when I can feel it pumping in my chest. Around 170 is where I start sweating quite a bit. I've seen it as high as 192 and I backed off because I felt that surely it couldn't be a good thing.

I had set my HR monitor to show me percentages instead of BPM and it definitely was over 100% at one point. I think 110% maybe? My guess is that I don't fall into the "normal" ranges so I switched to BPM and I am checking on how well I feel at the different levels as a clue to which range I am actually in. Although my "science" is more like: do I feel like I am going to die? No. Ok, then I am good to keep going!