Heart Rate Monitor Basic Intro
How do you know if you’re in shape? While you may look good on the outside, it’s your heart that will tell the full story. This is why your doctor is so concerned with your heart when you have a physical exam as your heart rate can tell a doctor a great deal [...]
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Why You Should Buy a Heart Rate Monitor
Every day, more and more athletes are purchasing heart rate monitors which, before long, will become essential parts of their training regimens. A heart rate monitor lends a level of precision to a training program which can not be found any other way, and increase both the safety and effectiveness of a workout.
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Heart Rate Monitor Buying Guide
Buying a heart rate monitor for the first time can be an extremely confusing experience. Looking at the wide variety of products that are available, it can begin to seem as if they are all the same. In fact, this couldn’t be further from the truth. This article will describe some of the features [...]
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Finding Your Lactate Threshold
Lactate Threshold, also known as anaerobic threshold, is what most experts currently recommend to use as a starting point for estimating your maximum heart rate. When a person has reached his or her lactate threshold, the heart is no longer able to work hard enough to carry lactate away from the muscles, which results [...]
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The Benefits of Heart Rate Training
There are many benefits that a heart rate monitor can bring to a training program. As many of the world’s top athletes have learned, your heart rate can be used as a gauge for many aspects of exercise, from determining whether you are training in the correct way to obtain the result that you want, [...]
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Exercise and Your Heart Rate
During a workout, our body tells us certain things, and the heart is largely what communicates those messages. For example, you may be aware of the fact that resting heart rate can be used as a general indicator of a person’s overall fitness level, but you may not know that a person who is [...]
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Your resting heart rate is the number of times that your heart beats each minute when it is exerting no effort, such as when you first wake up from sleeping. It can be a valuable tool to aid in determining your overall level of fitness. An average, healthy adult will generally have a resting heart [...]
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