Comments on: How valid is heart rate monitoring on aerobic exercise machines? http://aerobicstime.com/blog/aerobic-exercise/how-valid-is-heart-rate-monitoring-on-aerobic-exercise-machines/ Work Quicker, Longer And Recover Early WIth Aerobic Exercises Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:27:57 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: cheetah7 http://aerobicstime.com/blog/aerobic-exercise/how-valid-is-heart-rate-monitoring-on-aerobic-exercise-machines/comment-page-1/#comment-619 cheetah7 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:28:56 +0000 http://aerobicstime.com/blog/aerobic-exercise/how-valid-is-heart-rate-monitoring-on-aerobic-exercise-machines/276/#comment-619 <a href="">anthony</a> 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. 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.

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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.

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