How high does your heart rate go?

[deapee]

So after pretty much a 3 month layoff due to a fracture ankle and torn ligaments, I'm slowly getting back into things.

Anyway, I started paying more attention to my heart rate, and noticed that on the treadmill at 10% incline and 2.5 mph, my heart rate will go up to about 140.

I have no clue if that's normal or if it's too high.

If I'm just walking at 2.5 MPH, 0 or 2% incline, it will be around 108.

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For kicks I had my wife show me her heart rate while she was running her last 5k and her heart got up to 174 BPM, as the max, but she's full on trucking, dripping sweat, etc.

Thanks.

[MrNope]

140 is fine. 174 is really up there.. You can google a chart that will show you when you start to hit dangerous levels.

[deapee]

Thanks.

[henmaniac87]

Jeez both of those rates seem quite high to me. Whats your resting heart rate generally?

[deapee]

My resting heart rate is like maybe 85 (if I just check it randomly)...If I just get up to go to the bathroom, it will be like 95. But if I track it with a fitbit, and check at the end of the day, it reports my resting heart rate around 75...I've rarely seen it that low myself though, when checking.

Edit: My wife is in really good shape -- her resting heart rate is probably in the 60's.

I did my 8 minutes at 10% incline, and then backed it down to 8%, then 6% then 4% then 2% then 0% and it just slowly went down each step -- like 8% it would be around 130, 6% around 120, 4% around 115, then it goes to 108 or so. It drops pretty much immediately when I lower the incline with very little delay at all.

[gauntlad]

My maximum is 201bpm, which is higher than the theoretical maximum for my age. There's a formula that estimates maximum HR, 220-age, but for me that's nonsense because I'm 29 years old, and my maximum hasn't dropped any with age.

I have done a reasonable volume of distance running over the last 3 years and have completed races up to the half marathon distance. I regularly hit my maximum heart rate at the end of races and my heart rate never caused a problem. My resting heart rate is in the low 50's when well trained. I find that running reduces it over time.

Most of the time I don't bother wearing the monitor during races in case it slips off, but when I wore the monitor during a 10k race out of curiosity, I found that I can maintain an average heart rate of 92% at race pace. I don't worry about those high HRs, it's never given me a problem and I've never been concerned about it before I had the monitor.

I've also tried to train it down using aerobic base training for 6 months, this did make me fitter: my resting heart rate dropped, but it did not reduce my maximum heart rate.

My advice? Don't worry about it, but by all means use it to work out your training zones once you know your max.

[darscogre]

My resting heart rate is like maybe 85 (if I just check it randomly)...If I just get up to go to the bathroom, it will be like 95. But if I track it with a fitbit, and check at the end of the day, it reports my resting heart rate around 75...I've rarely seen it that low myself though, when checking.

Edit: My wife is in really good shape -- her resting heart rate is probably in the 60's.

I did my 8 minutes at 10% incline, and then backed it down to 8%, then 6% then 4% then 2% then 0% and it just slowly went down each step -- like 8% it would be around 130, 6% around 120, 4% around 115, then it goes to 108 or so. It drops pretty much immediately when I lower the incline with very little delay at all.

I think your heartrate is perfectly fine. Looks about right to me. You also have to realize, heartrate is effected not only by physical movement and exercise but also by emotions and stress level in the body. And judging from your posts here I think you're a little obsessive compulsive about this heart rate thing, which in turn is causing you stress and anxiety, which in turn is making your resting heartrate spike a little higher at times.

[darscogre]

My resting heart rate is like maybe 85 (if I just check it randomly)...If I just get up to go to the bathroom, it will be like 95. But if I track it with a fitbit, and check at the end of the day, it reports my resting heart rate around 75...I've rarely seen it that low myself though, when checking.

Edit: My wife is in really good shape -- her resting heart rate is probably in the 60's.

I did my 8 minutes at 10% incline, and then backed it down to 8%, then 6% then 4% then 2% then 0% and it just slowly went down each step -- like 8% it would be around 130, 6% around 120, 4% around 115, then it goes to 108 or so. It drops pretty much immediately when I lower the incline with very little delay at all.

I think your heartrate is perfectly fine. Looks about right to me. You also have to realize, heartrate is effected not only by physical movement and exercise but also by emotions and stress level in the body. And judging from your posts here I think you're a little obsessive compulsive about this heart rate thing, which in turn is causing you stress and anxiety, which in turn is making your resting heartrate spike a little higher at times.

[deapee]

Yeah thanks all...I turned the feature off on my fitbit actually because I felt like I was paying too much attention to it. I guess moving forward I'll just work on hitting the zones on the treadmill and pay less attention to what it actually is all times throughout.