If you're fanatical about powerlifting or new to lifting, you're likely more concerned with shoulder workouts and perfecting ...

Heart rate recovery (HRR) is the capacity for the heart to return to its natural rate after elevation. It generally measures how quickly the heart rate decreases after exercise. Someone’s heart rate ...

Runners usually talk in terms of threshold pace, but following your heart can also be a useful way of structuring your sessions. By David Smyth ‘Comfortably hard’ sounds a bit like a contradiction in ...

The target heart rate is how fast the heart should beat during physical activity. Calculating the target heart rate and comparing it with the actual heart rate can help a person work out if their ...

Your resting heart rate is the number of times your heart beats per minute while your body is at rest – when you're sitting or lying down, having not engaged in much physical ac ...

Heart rate reserve (HRR) is the difference between your resting heart rate and your maximum heart rate. Knowing this number can help you train and work on your fitness goals. Your heart rate reserve ...

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Q I know three ways of calculating maximum heart rate (MHR): 220 – age; 214 – (0.8 x age); and 205 – 1/2 age. For a 30-year-old, they all come out at 190, but for a 60-year-old, the results are 160, ...

You can also test the accuracy of your numbers out on the run, for example by running at what feels like a hard pace (using the ‘talk test’, you should only be able to get two or three words out at a ...