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One Response to “How valid is heart rate monitoring on aerobic exercise machines?”
My guess is, the machines are just giving out an approximate number and it’s not 100% accurate. The only way to find out your true maximum heart rate is to do a stress test on a treadmill at the doctor’s office while hooked up to an ekg. Then once u have that figure, u can work the numbers in.
Or…
Do what I did. I purchased a heart rate monitor and ran as fast as I could, holding the effort for at least one minute. Mine came out to 212bpm. So, 75% of that would put me at 159bpm and 85% would be 180bpm.
April 17th, 2009 at 1:28 am
anthony
My guess is, the machines are just giving out an approximate number and it’s not 100% accurate. The only way to find out your true maximum heart rate is to do a stress test on a treadmill at the doctor’s office while hooked up to an ekg. Then once u have that figure, u can work the numbers in.
Or…
Do what I did. I purchased a heart rate monitor and ran as fast as I could, holding the effort for at least one minute. Mine came out to 212bpm. So, 75% of that would put me at 159bpm and 85% would be 180bpm.