For the past year-ish, I have been a mild fitness/health nut. I stay active, eat really healthy, and workout for *at least* 1 hour (usually 2) every day. It’s all kickbutt workouts, too! I weight train and always have cardio in my schedule. I don’t smoke or drink and I get at least 6 hours of sleep every night. In other words, staying healthy is a top priority.

I just measured my heart rate because despite my active lifestyle, I’ve always been in the 90-100 bpm range. I was at 100 again! Also, it seems as if when I inhale, it speeds up considerably.

I’m a 20-year-old female, 5’6" and 120 pounds. Is my heart rate something I need to be concerned about? Whenever I go to the doctor’s office, he checks my pulse for like 30 seconds and doesn’t say anything about it, and when I ask, he says I just need to exercise more – but I’m a freaking exercise addict. Any input would be helpful. Thanks!

I’m 17, 5’9" and weigh about 188. I have lost almost 20 pounds in my first month of P90X (if you are wondering if it works, the answer is hell yes) and I have been told by online body fat percentage calculators that I have about 24-25%. I have no idea how accurate they are but they are what I’m basing it on. I didn’t check it before i lost the weight so I don’t know how much lower it is now. So my question is, how long might it take for me to drop it a few percents? I’m eating like 1500 – 2000 calories a day (super clean I might add) and burning a lot with the P90X doubles. I bought a heart rate monitor and it said that I burnt like close to 5000 calories in one day ( I have a very hard time believing that). Not looking for anything exact, just a rough estimation on how long it might take for me to lose some of those points. Thanks in advance guys.

I am a new "runner" and would like to buy a monitor watch that has heart rate + speed + distance. I really don’t need something fancy at this point but I would like to have the three features at least. Thanks a lot!

My resting heart rate is at about 64 bpm, but the slightest movement changes my bpm to 80, is this normal? I do exercise 6 days a week and I would rate myself as a healthy individual, but I just wanted to make sure my heart is healthy. Thank you!

And I’m using a MIO SHape Elite Heart Rate Monitor watch to measure my bpm
What should a 22 year old female’s resting heart rate be?

and no, I dont smoke weed or do any drugs. hahaha.
I’m 5’3", if that affects the way my heart rate should measure.

What are 3 meal ideas (breakfast, lunch, dinner) and 3 (after bkft, lunch, dinner) snacks that are low in FAT, SATURATED FAT, and CARBS? I’ve lost 6 lbs since i’ve started my diet January 24. I’m 24, 5’7" and now 147.2lbs. This is my first time dieting. I’m on a 1200 calorie diet and I log in my meals on Web M.D.’s calorie and fitness planner to help guide me. I pay attention to labels in the grocery store but over the weekend I was able to know how much I loss when I went to a friend’s house. I workout 5 days a week to workout DVDs in my room…I think the fat intake is my issue and im not use to eating vegetarian-like meals because fat adds up quickly. I’m now looking at the food pyramid to keep me on track because before i ate a lot of nuts and chicken with beans…I;m unemployed and studying to go back for my masters so I spend a lot of time sitting through the day. And i typically eat breakfast at 10:30 or 11am, lunch 1pm or 2pm, and dinner 5:30pm or 6pm.
My Taylor scale comes by UPS today (looks at her watch…). My other scales were inaccurate.

What’s a good pedometer/heart rate monitor to use that is cheap (.00 or below)??

Thank you for your help and positive+ attitude!

I am a 16 year old male, 5’10", 165lbs. I am very fit(I lift weights just about every day). One day for some random reason I counted my pulse while I was watching tv, it was 130BPM, I though that was odd because I am sitting on the couch. I counted it the next day while I had been on the couch for 20 mins, but its 131. The next day I was going to pay attention to the heart rate monitor on the bike I was using for warm up, and I watched my heart rate go up, and up finally it got 210 and the numbers went to 000(I guess it doesnt go that high?) And when it went this high I was not even pedeling that hard. Every day since I noticed this I watch the heart rate on the machine go up and up until it goes past 210(and I have tried different machines and even a personal heart rate monitor and it still goes that high). What should I do about this? Is it bad?

Current BF is 23.1%. Male, 6ft3, 206lb, 36"waist, Ectomorph build
Goal is 13-16% BF in 12-14weeks
Currently :Train 4x week, compound movements, deadlifts, squats, bench, barbell curls ,HIT, as well as spin on my bike 4x week (30min-600calories give or take). I wear a heart rate monitor.

Supps: Animal cuts/creatine w/dextrose/ glutamine/ multitab/ mct oil/ whey protein.

Eat 5-7 meals a day spaced out around 3-4hrs apart, however do cheat here and there with pizza/wings/beer/etc..

Protein: about 60g a day of whey, the rest comes from chicken breast,tuna,turkey sandwiches,cottage cheese, egg whites. I probably intake about 150g a day, (per my scale, my lean body mass is around 146lbs give or take)

What would you recommend diet wise to slim down. Cutting carbs/bread/oatmeal?….

I cycle around 6am when I can, and train at work in the gym we have.

Let me know what has worked for you.

I bought a Nordic Track Treadmill about 5 years ago along with the heart rate monitor. The watch & monitor says it’s a "Nordic Track System 122"
I never used it, and can not find the manual.
First, I’d like to know how I can use the heart rate monitor portion of the watch.
Second, since I’ve had it a while, the monitor might need a new battery, but I don’t see how this thing opens to put a new one in.

Any Suggestions?

Thank you in advance for reading all of this

Firs things first: Im a 22 year old male, just shy of 6′ tall, and weigh about 227 pounds depending on the time of day. I suffer from panic attacks, but I have recently gotten them under control. On with the question.

I am planning on attending the police academy in september so I have started exercising again. I used to be in pretty good shape about 3-4 years ago (180 lbs and running 3 miles a night), but I really let myself go. So, because of my lack of exercise for that last couple of years, Im trying to take it slow in the beginning. However, I can’t afford to take it TOO slow because I need to get in shape within a few months.

My routine as of now starts out with a 5 minute power walk to warm up, then alternating between 60 seconds of jogging and 90 seconds of power walking. I set my goal for 20 minutes, on top of the 5 minute warm up, so 25 minutes total. However, I am having problems. After about the 3rd or 4th cycle of 60/90, I can barely keep up the jogging. I start skipping the 60 second jog cycle and just keep power walking. I wear a polar heart rate monitor while exercising, and during the jogging cycle my HR gets up to 200+. Tonight it got up to 203 max. So, my question is: Is 200 bpm + unsafe? Should I not work my heart as hard as I have been?

One last note: since I suffer from panic disorder, I always think something is wrong with my body. My doc understands this and sent me to get a stress test done just to appease me. They took an ultrasound of my heart and hooked me up to an EKG while having me exercise on a treadmill. They said besides me being totally out of shape, my heart is ok. But, just because I don’t have any heart problems, doesn’t mean something can’t go wrong? Right?
Edit: I usually take a second before I start my exercise to sit down and get my "resting" heart rate. It is usually around 70-75 bpm. If I really try to relax and take long deep breaths I can get it down to sub 70 bpm.

Ok. Last year I lost 45 lbs by doing cardio at the gym several times a week and eating really clean calorie wise at 1000-1200 calories a day. I was 5’8" and 230 lbs at 32 years old. I got down to 185 in about three months. Well, this winter I gained a lot of the weight back (was up to 225) and I do not want to do that anymore ever again!

So now I am back and I have done the same things as last year. I just lost about 15lbs so far and I really want to do all of the right things to maximize my loss amounts over the next 6 weeks (I have a trip I am going on then and want to look my best.)

So what exactly should I be doing to maximise my efforts?

Eat no more than XXX or no less than XXX amount of calories a day?

When doing cardio, should I stay at a certain heartrate, no more or no less and how long per session, 45minutes? An hour? How many days per week? I do use a heart rate monitor.

I believe in calories in/calories out and that indeed does work for me as well.

Mike

I am a 23 year old completely healthy male – 6’4" 200lbs was a collegiate athlete, and every few days or weeks I will be sitting down and get a real dizzy feeling or maybe like tunnel vision but it is not super severe. I have been to a cardiologist and they hooked me up to a 24 hour heart monitor, did an ekg, and an ecg and ran blood tests. Everything came back fine, and it was one of the top cardiologists in texas. I also have a little bit of stress with work and everything – I am getting married in a few months. Could I have a thyroid problem and they not have caught it or is this really just stress related. My heart rate and blood pressure is completely normal although it was super high when I went to the doctors office but the assistant said that was completely normal/ On the 24 hour Holter monitor it had a sixety something average. Also, I used to train 4 hours a day – hard – now i work out but am still fit but not nearly as good of shape as I used to be.
I also need to get my eyes checked – this is probably in some way affecting me. I know I have 20-40 vision or worse but have yet to make it to the eye doctor.

Here is a little backstory before the question, so you all understand why I am concerned about this. Please, just bare with me. Thank you.

Just after I was born, my Dad shipped off to The Gulf War (702nd Frontline Infantry Unit, I believe.).

My first true memory of him was when I was three. I was held by my mom, looking at a calendar, pointing at the day marked with "AL COMES HOME!!"

From here, my next memory is being held in his arms while he was still in uniform.

Since that day, I had fallen in love with all branches of the service. I have always played sporting games such as Airsoft and Hunting, as well as videogames and toys based around the military. I decided when I was ten that I when I turn 18, I am joining The Army. I picked The Army, simply because that was what my dad was in. True, I could do any others, but I felt I was not smart enough for Air Force, and I was not mature enough for Marines. I know the military is not a joke or a game, and I don’t want to be in something that does not feel right to me.

When I turned 18, I went to my local requirement center and they evaluated me. I told them I have asthma and scoliosis. They said that The Army would not accept me based on those two factors, even though I passed the other tests with flying colors.

So, I did some training and became a "Well Controlled Asthmatic" (Basically someone who does have Asthma, but can fight through it and is not affected as much by it anymore) and I also did physical therapy to strengthen my back muscles to the point it corrected my spine.

I fixed the two issues and they said they could work from there. But things started getting bad. My dad had cancer and out of the blue one day, he passed away.

I went back when I was about 19 years old, just after my dad passed away, and they said to me that even though I show great discipline and strengths to push through and give it my all, my mom needs me more then my country does. She needs the support, and from a family point of view, she had just lost her husband. The worst thing I could do to her is leave for the military, which could kill me (Not the training, but serving. I.E. – Shot or what have you.)

I shook my head, went to my truck, and cried. All my life I had wanted nothing more then this, and now I am refused. I see their points, but it still did break me as a man. To be told I can not serve our country. That broke me.

Long story short from here, I was involved in a car accident on May 22, 2009. The damage occurring from the accident is to my heart. I am diagnosed with Vasovagal, which is when the nervous system of the heart messes up and can cause the heart to stop (While on a heart monitor, we have it documented that my heart has stopped once for 2.2 (Two point two, if it is hard to read) seconds, and another time for close to five minutes.)… The other diagnoses is called Bradycardia. This is when the heart’s rhythm is slowed. At a person nearing 21 years old (On May 9th), who is 5’9" and weighs 150ish lbs, I should have a Resting Heart Rate of about 90 or so.

… It is 35.

… On a good day.

Now, here is the question, now that you understand my story.

I know The Army is out. There is no chance I can be accepted. What about The National Guard, or even The Peace Corps. I want to serve. I want to be part of the country and I want to help, in any way I can. Even if it means sitting behind a desk and filing paperwork. I want to be part of the unit and in some way serve this country. For those within the military, do you know of any branches I could do or jobs I could attempt? I know the military is not all about running and gunning (Please excuse the crude phrase). I know there are other parts such as welders, desk workers, computer workers… All kinds of things.

I just don’t know them. I’d like some help figuring something out. So, would The National Guard be a good place for me? Or The Peace Corps? I tried finding information online, but that did not help much. So yeah. Sorry if the story was too long and if the question is too …… vague. I don’t really know how to word such a thing.

Thank you for your time.

-Cory Alan Haugen.

I just started exercising regularly a few weeks ago. Before I would play pick-up games of basketball anywhere from once to five times a week, but around the end of October I made some changes in my eating habits and started walking/running (alternating between laps) on a treadmill, usually 3-4 times a week. This is in addition to basketball.

Physically, I feel fine, I never have any dizziness or anything, if I can’t keep the pace up I slow it down. I just want to know what my heart rate should be around. I’m 6’4" and ~300 pounds. When I run, it’s on 7.5-8, when I walk, it’s at 3.5. My heart rate when running the other day was right around 165, I just want to make sure that’s not overdoing it. I see a lot of conflicting info on the web so I’m hoping someone can either respond with valid information or point me to a reputable source that will take things like age/body type/fitness type into consideration.

Lately I have been worried about my heart rate. If I check it when I wake up still in bed it is about 55. After I get up and get going it averages right around 59-67. If I do something active it goes up depending on how active I am being at the time, then it goes back to my average fairly quickly… within minutes usually. I dont have any symptoms like dizziness or fainting but I know this is right at the low end of normal. I am not overweight at all. 5’9" and about 150lbs. The job I have is pretty active… I climb ladders and roofs all day and have been doing this for 7 years now. My only symptom from this is the health anxiety that I get just thinking about it. I check my pulse all the time now with a wrist monitor I bought. Also my blood pressure is usually about 115/75. Thanks

I am 20, 5’8" and 14 stone.
I am doing Jillian Michaels workouts at the moment. I have all her DVD’s and her biggest loser ones too and I do them all in rotation so my body doesnt become used to a specific exercise routine.
I exercise 6, sometimes 7, days a week. I eat a healthy diet and never above 1300 calories per day.
I bought a heart rate monitor yesterday and used it with her 40 min "banish fat boost metabolism" workout which is all cardio. It told me I had burned 400 calories and 1.82 ozs of fat. I don’t know whether this is good or not?
Also, since doing these workouts my legs have got rock solid…it’s brilliant! They’ve really toned up. But I don’t seem to be losing any weight on the scales…or toning up anywhere else on my body. It seems to just be my calves, quads and hammys. My inner thighs are still flabby. As is my stomach and arms and I still have back fat (by the way I have been working out for 3 weeks now). I would have expected to see a little more improvement than what I have? Why am I not losing weight or toning up anywhere but my legs?

I am an 18 year old girl (5’4" 136lbs) who has not been regularly active since May but can run 3-4 miles without much of a problem. I got a heart rate monitor recently and have been using it to record my exercising heart rate. Last week when I ran 3 miles my hr averaged 171bpm with a max of 190bpm. Yesterday I ran 3 miles and my heart rate had a max of 196bpm and an average of 186bpm. Is this bad?
Note: last week’s run i ran all the way through and did some sprints, but yesterday’s i had to stop a few times to walk and breathe.

I am 18 , 5′ 11", and weigh 153. I’ve been working out for 6 months and active for my whole life. Sometimes when i’m doing cardio and pushing it my heart rate will go past 200 is this bad? it feels like it always has been doing this but now i’m just starting to use a heart monitor and be aware of it.

Here goes..

"Sarah has a heart rate monitor attached as she trains on her bike for one hour. Her initial and minimum heart rate is 100 beats per minute. Her maximum heart rate during the session is 156 beats per minute.

Her heart rate can be modelled by the function

H=Acos (π t)/45 + B

where t is the time in minutes from the start of the training session and H is her heart rate in beats per minute.

for how long is Sarah’s heart rate above 145 bpm during her one hour training session?"

Use radians.

Now the model answers came up with a formula:

145+128-28 cos (π t)/45

Where did they get the 128 and 28 from?

Please help me with this question, and walk me through each step! It would be greatly appreciated

As I grow older, I’m paying more attention to symptoms in my body. I’m 44 years old and have been monitoring my heart rate and blood pressure, for instance. My 3 day resting average is 70 (72, 72 and 66 today). I would consider myself in "below average" fitness level, because I’m obese (but working on it). I saw this chart that says for someone in below-average health my age, a normal resting rate is 76 o 82. Should it concern me that my average is 70?

Ok so I hav ea heart rate monitor the one where it comes with a watch and a little belt thing to go around your chest. Its no any kind of name brand I bought it from Fred Meyer’s it was like 30$ or something. so I don’t know how accurate it is. I am 23 5’4" and weigh 140 lbs. my bmi is 24.1 fat percentage is 36 ish. thoes are just off a website so ? well when I wore the heart rate monitor I jogged at 4.5mph on treamill for 25 min. whith a 4 min warmup walk. the treamill counter said I burned 300 calories but my heart monitor said I burned 500 cal…thats a big difference. Which one is more accurate and why ??
my husband says to just use the lower one to know for sure I’m burning enough but I just want to know what is most accurate..cause 200 cal, thats alot.
my treadmill doesn’t have an age or weight input. its older I guess I bought it from the calssifieds.
But my heart monitor does.

http://health.yahoo.net/rodale/MH/wake-up-save-your-life

On the Runaway Heart Rate section, I did the check on my resting heart rate. It turns out my heart pumped 17 times in 15 seconds, 17 times 4 = 68 beats per minute.

It says from the link, quote to quote –
"In fact, Italian researchers found that having an RHR above 70 beats per minute (bpm) increases your risk of dying of heart disease by at least 78 percent"

Is a RHR of 68 still a high chance of heart disease? Note that I am at the age of 14 and is in healthy weight according to the Wii Fitness Plus so that probably changes everything..

I am 19 and female. Where can i get it? Target? Walmart? where?

Also are the heart rate monitors on the treadmills accurate?
I am a college student on a budget trying to lose weight cause i am about 190lbs.
I saw one on sale for at walmart called the" s7R". Anyone heard of it?
As well as "sporstline"
And this works really well for you I assume? Thanks, but it is still out of my budget. Most likely i might still get it anyway.

I’m a woman looking to begin working out with a heart rate monitor. How do I know if I should use a general or female-specific HRM? My ribcage (without bust) is 38-39", and my wrist circumference is 6.5-7". I’m looking to balance comfort of the chest strap with fit of the watch unit. I’m primarily looking at Polar, but would consider other brands and advice. Thanks!

i am a 15 year old athletic male. i am 5’7" and weigh 145 pounds. my football coach recommended us getting a heart rate monitor to keep us safe. so i bought one off of ebay. my heart rate watch says my pulse is 180. we do high intensity interval training for 3 minutes, then we have a rest for 30 seconds.

I’m a 187lb 5′ 6" and 39 year old male. I recently started P90X, i have not worked out for a couple of years. I bought a heart rate monitor and I have noticed that my heart rate gets up to 170 bpm really quick and my resting heart rate stays above 100 bpm for a few hours after exercise. I feel fine but the the high resting heart rate concerns me. In the morning my resting heart rate is 68-75 bpm. I have had high blood pressure for a few years now and I know that a good diet and Cardio is the best way to bring the high bp down.. Should i be concerned or is it that im out of shape and my recovery heart rate is just going to get better?

I got a (good quality)HR monitor this week and i have started running with the intention of running a half marathon in April. Now im only doing what i would have considered light pace running but according to my HR monitor i am at 98-100% of my max HR when i do anything more than walk briskly!
Im 22, 5’11" and weight 160lbs/72kg so my BMI would suggest i am in good shape. Now i have had very little exercise in the last few years in college and have done my fair share of drinking so im not surprised that i am unfit but if walking has me at my optimum HR thats pretty shocking. I was running and my HR would skyrocket but i didnt feel out of breath at all.

How am i supposed to get fit and train for a race if my HR says i cant even run!?

My resting HR is also quite low generally between 50bpm and 64bpm so that would also suggest i was quite fit. Is it dangerous to run at 100% of my max HR? During the summer before i had the monitor i must have been at 100% because i was pushing myself much harder.

I’m having trouble losing weight around my waist/belly. I’ve been running for months now..although i’m not trained on how to monitor the runs or my heart rate. I’m planning to purchase a heart rate monitor today and put it to good use. What is a good training zone for someone who is 5’6" and 130lbs? HELP! I hope to have my belly in shape by June )

As I grow older, I’m paying more attention to symptoms in my body. I’m 44 years old and have been monitoring my heart rate and blood pressure, for instance. My 3 day resting average is 70 (72, 72 and 66 today). I would consider myself in "below average" fitness level, because I’m obese (but working on it). I saw this chart that says for someone in below-average health my age, a normal resting rate is 76 o 82. Should it concern me that my average is 70?

For example, take two 18-year-old girls, both with a similar level of fitness, but one is 5’10" and one is 4’10". Would their heart rates be expected to differ because of their different body sizes, or is age really the *only* factor that affects their target heart rate zone?

I have an older "Healthrider" (Healthrider.com) , and I want to find the best book to explain heart rate training. Also, any advice about monitors would be appreciated. The Healthrider doesn’t have any elecronics, so I’ll be buying a monitor I can wear. I’ve looked at all the Oregon Scientific models, and the ones that speak seem like a good idea. Do you think they are a good idea or just a good marketing idea? It’s very likely that I will only be using the monitor on this machine, as I don’t do any running or other outdoor training (other than walking).
I’m a complete novice about this subject.
I’m 62 yr.s old, 150 lb., approx. 16% body fat. Excellent health, never had any health issues. Moderate exercise (mostly biking, swimming, walking) most of my life.