Whats your Min and Max Heart rate

macnab

I am trying to find out once and for all is the formula of "220 minus your age" useful or not for working out heart rate zones. To this end i am asking you to simply put your age, min HR and max HR as an answer to this post.
I will kick off with mine, which will make it obvious which side of the argument i side on.

Age: 48, Min HR: 41, Max HR 204

TheBlaaMan

Age: 51, Resting HR : 44, Max HR 184

204 is a helluva MaxHR @ 48!

macnab

TheBlaaMan wrote: »

Age: 51, Resting HR : 44, Max HR 184

204 is a helluva MaxHR @ 48!

Yeah i was ALL OUT on a turbo trainer in my sitting room, I actually fell off at the end, broke my phone and damaged the coffee table.

Alek

Age: 36, Resting: 48, Max: 185

RobFowl

Age 45
Min 46
Max 205

Carawaystick

220 - your age is a made up thing, with no empirical basis.

DMW22

Age: 25

Min HR: 44
Max HR: 204

Beasty

Not tested how low I can get it for a few years but was down around 44 last tiem I did. Max recorded is 187 (this year)(had some blips at 200+, but also recently recorded 192 for maybe 30s or more - not sure if that was a blip)

That must make me 33 or possibly 28:pac::pac:

fat bloke

I'm 40. Don't actually know what my low bpm is, but my high is comically low at about 158. So based on the 220 - age I'm 62 years of age.

Max Rockatansky

Age - 53

RHR - 47

Max HR - 201 (Highest heart rate I have recorded)

PaddyFagan

Age: 40 Resting: 55 Max: 182

Kaisr Sose

macnab wrote: »

Yeah i was ALL OUT on a turbo trainer in my sitting room, I actually fell off at the end, broke my phone and damaged the coffee table.

What was the rate before the big adrenilin spike

As a word of caution. Going for a max effort should be done in a controlled environment and is best done under supervision!

Here are mine:
Age 48
Min 49
Max 187 (not all out)

Obviously 220 minus age does not work for me.

lennymc

age 40
min 39
max 162

Esroh

Age 51
Resting 48
Max 193


I have had dealings with my Local Coronary Care unit over the last 18 months. I questioned them on the 220 - age prior to treadmill stress tests and the answer has been that it gives a figure that a healthy heart should be able to reach all else being normal.
During these tests I have hit 204 but as they said running would have a different overall effect on the body .

dastardly00

Age 30
Max heart rate recorded was 195 bpm (during an 8km run).

I consistently get into the +180 bpm region when cycling so I reckon the 195 bpm value is not a blip.

Puggy

Age: 55,Min HR: 37, Max HR 172.

That's on the bike, staying out of the red mist.

dastardly00

Data so far .....
(yes I am bored and easily distracted )



See Post #61 for updated graph with additional data

G1032

Age 38
Min 46
Max 190 (highest value recorded on my garmin that i'd believe. Have hit over 200bpm four times but these are blips)

Puggy

dastardly00 wrote: »

Data so far .....
(yes I am bored and easily distracted )

The max might be important, but max - min gives an indication of range.

Borderfox

Age 45
Rhr?
Max 196

Heart rate when looking at bike 110 :-)

Alek

Heart rate when looking at bike 110 :-)

Heart rate when looking at bike while riding, for a tad too long: 195

07Lapierre

My resting heart rate is not low enough!
My Max heart rate is not high enough!

Macy0161

Age 40, for cycling...
RHR = 54
Max HR = 177
Never done an effort like mentioned earlier on the bike though! Came within 3 of that max during a spin class yesterday, so maybe a little low, but that's what I've got chasing pb's up climbs on the road.

Max HR running is 192.

Beasty

dastardly00 wrote: »

Age 30
Max heart rate recorded was 195 bpm (during an 8km run).

I consistently get into the +180 bpm region when cycling so I reckon the 195 bpm value is not a blip.

Max HR running is typically a few bpm higher than when cycling (not that I've ever tried that running lark)

Macy0161

Beasty wrote: »

Max HR running is typically a few bpm higher than when cycling (not that I've ever tried that running lark)

Normally more than a few from what I've read up on it. Less muscles and less impact. Max HR goes down again for swimming (only just got a swim HRM, so am using yet another guestimate formula for that in the meantime). Edit - just checked last nights coached session and actually hit above the swim formula already!

Vincenzo Nibbly

Age: 40
RHR: 43
Max: 182

Puggy

Beasty wrote: »

Max HR running is typically a few bpm higher than when cycling (not that I've ever tried that running lark)

I've seen you cycle, couldn't image you running!

Pantanifan84

Age 31
Min 42
Max 200

PaddyFagan

Just adding in detail from my wife:
Age: 42, Resting: 45, Max: 179

terrydel

Everyone here must be a pro athlete with those resting heart rates!
How are you calculating them?

Beasty

terrydel wrote: »

How are you calculating them?

I have my finger on the pulse ....

Seriously though, the old counting method works when it's a small number - A bit more difficult keeping track when out of breath during an extended effort so the HRM is used to get the max figure for me

jinkypolly

Age: 47
Min: 36
Max: 196

G1032

terrydel wrote: »

Everyone here must be a pro athlete with those resting heart rates!
How are you calculating them?

Just check your pulse when you wake up.
I haven't checked mine in a morning in a good while. I'll check tomorrow and update my earlier figures if necessary

ednwireland

age 51

resting 46
max 172

Jakey Rolling

Age 49
Rest 44
Max 173 (bike), 182 (run)

iwillhtfu

Age: 36

Max HR: 202

Rest HR: 42 haven't checked in a while

SetOverSet

Age: 40
RHR: 48
MHR: 178

Kaisr Sose

Lots of Boardies in good shape!!

214 - (age X 0.8) for males or 209 - (age X 0.9) for females gives a better estimate for active people than the 220 - age yardstick from WWII.

For those with high HR it will be out but not by as much as 220 method for most.

RoughSleeper

Age: 22
Resting: 50
Max: 204

Cee-Jay-Cee

Age: 46
Resting HR 52bpm
Max HR 182bpm

Luxxis

Age: 42

Resting 48:
Max 175 is the highest i have ever seen it.

YFlyer

macnab wrote: »

I am trying to find out once and for all is the formula of "220 minus your age" useful or not for working out heart rate zones. To this end i am asking you to simply put your age, min HR and max HR as an answer to this post.
I will kick off with mine, which will make it obvious which side of the argument i side on.

Age: 48, Min HR: 41, Max HR 204

HRM calibrated?

YFlyer

jinkypolly wrote: »

Age: 47
Min: 36
Max: 196

Proof

YFlyer

Don't have min
189 for max
43 years

VO2 max test running on treadmill.

ABEasy

Age 36
Low HR 44
High HR 191

stampydmonkey

Age 33
Low HR 44
High HR 190

Raymzor

Age 42
RHR 38
Max 175

Gasco

Out of interest - how is resting HR measured?

Spent the last hour with the HRM on - I adopted various positions, attempted mildly meditative states etc. and the lowest registered was 51 / 52. The moment any movement took place it was >60.

I am taking this to mean that I am overtraining and will vegetate for the rest of the weekend.

iwillhtfu

Gasco wrote: »

Out of interest - how is resting HR measured?

Spent the last hour with the HRM on - I adopted various positions, attempted mildly meditative states etc. and the lowest registered was 51 / 52. The moment any movement took place it was >60.

I am taking this to mean that I am overtraining and will vegetate for the rest of the weekend.

I take it first thing in the morning as soon as I wake up. It varies depending on how well you've slept though to be fair.

Stop watch on the phone/finger on your pulse/count/simple.

terrydel

Beasty wrote: »

I have my finger on the pulse ....

Seriously though, the old counting method works when it's a small number - A bit more difficult keeping track when out of breath during an extended effort so the HRM is used to get the max figure for me

Id say its not the most accurate tho.
Id be amazed if all the sub 50s here are accurate. Thats way below the normal average.

Alek

I went to sleep with HR on last night and recorded it Min HR: 46, avg: 53.