(Poll for female)What is your heart rates?

[crystal_clear]

Cyclists seem have low heart rates. I was curious about the heart rates of tennis ladies here.

Poll for male:
http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=376040
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[niff]

Sitting at the comp, I counted a round 60.

 

[Spokewench]

I used to be very into heart rates - because I was a bicycle racer for about 20 years.

There is a huge variations from a real resting heart rate and one just sitting around during the day.

To get an accurate resting pulse, you either have to wear a heart rate monitor at night and when you wake up, take a look at it just as you are waking without moving around or sitting up.

Or, you do the same thing by looking a clock and counting your heart rate or moving too much. Not the easiest thing to do!

So, you need to take into account how these ladies are taking their heart rate counts.

 

[niff]

Haven't tested properly in a while, I keep forgetting.

5 votes! Talk about sausage fest...

 

[sixftlion]

Cyclists seem have low heart rates. I was curious about the heart rates of tennis ladies here.

Poll for male:
http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=376040
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My morning heart rate is around 44-47. I am 46 years old, pretty fit.

 

[crystal_clear]

I used to be very into heart rates - because I was a bicycle racer for about 20 years.

There is a huge variations from a real resting heart rate and one just sitting around during the day.

To get an accurate resting pulse, you either have to wear a heart rate monitor at night and when you wake up, take a look at it just as you are waking without moving around or sitting up.

Or, you do the same thing by looking a clock and counting your heart rate or moving too much. Not the easiest thing to do!

So, you need to take into account how these ladies are taking their heart rate counts.

I score 64 now. I start doing biking once a week and I will re-test in two month see if my heart rate improves(reduces).

 

[Mauvaise]

Sitting at my computer at work, so I'm counting it as a 'resting' rate: 64bpm (as counted by my nifty phone app).

 

[Spokewench]

I score 64 now. I start doing biking once a week and I will re-test in two month see if my heart rate improves(reduces).

Not sure if biking once a week will help you (know it won't hurt you); cyclist have great low heartrates because they usually train conscientiously and with plans in mind; ie. they just don't go out and ride 20 miles at an easy pace, they will do intervals, ride long distances several times a week at a maintenance level; do hill repeats, etc., etc. They are training their heart.

It depends on how fit you are now; if you will show any difference by ridinga bike once a week. How you ride, when you ride, how much your ride, what type of workouts will determine how your have trained your heart. Your other activities, i.e. tennis, etc. will also affect your heart rate.

 

[crystal_clear]

My morning heart rate is around 44-47. I am 46 years old, pretty fit.

I haven't bought your book yet but I found many good exercises in your website. Awesome stuff!

 

[crystal_clear]

Not sure if biking once a week will help you (know it won't hurt you); cyclist have great low heartrates because they usually train conscientiously and with plans in mind; ie. they just don't go out and ride 20 miles at an easy pace, they will do intervals, ride long distances several times a week at a maintenance level; do hill repeats, etc., etc. They are training their heart.

It depends on how fit you are now; if you will show any difference by ridinga bike once a week. How you ride, when you ride, how much your ride, what type of workouts will determine how your have trained your heart. Your other activities, i.e. tennis, etc. will also affect your heart rate.

I see. Only a more serious biking can train the heart. I signed up a 50k rideforheart fundraising event in June and started to do some biking after so many years absent from biking. I need to prepare myself for the 50k ride and not sure how demanding 50k is.

 

[sixftlion]

Not sure if biking once a week will help you (know it won't hurt you); cyclist have great low heartrates because they usually train conscientiously and with plans in mind; ie. they just don't go out and ride 20 miles at an easy pace, they will do intervals, ride long distances several times a week at a maintenance level; do hill repeats, etc., etc. They are training their heart.

It depends on how fit you are now; if you will show any difference by ridinga bike once a week. How you ride, when you ride, how much your ride, what type of workouts will determine how your have trained your heart. Your other activities, i.e. tennis, etc. will also affect your heart rate.

I think that any activity that you do with a lot of intensity and challenge yourself, will improve your fitness (and lower your heart rate). The more you challenge your heart, the stronger it gets. Would it be biking, running, tennis, swimming, interval training... Just push yourself to get better.

 

[sixftlion]

I haven't bought your book yet but I found many good exercises in your website. Awesome stuff!

Thank you, Crystal_Clear, glad you are enjoying the articles. Hope they will help you to get even fitter and injury-free (that's the theme of my book ).

 

[Spokewench]

I see. Only a more serious biking can train the heart. I signed up a 50k rideforheart fundraising event in June and started to do some biking after so many years absent from biking. I need to prepare myself for the 50k ride and not sure how demanding 50k is.

For others on this forum, 50 k is around say 30ish miles. Most fairly fit people can ride approximately 10-15 miles per hour average once they ride a bit, dependent on terrain. So, you will have to be out there for about 2 1/2 hours or so. For most, to do this kind of ride to finish, you can do this with a little training. But, what you should train since you have only a short time is "time in the saddle so that your neck and butt do not hurt too much while you are doing the fundraiser. If it has hills in it, you should do hill repeats at least once a week.

Some riding will train your heart, but if you are looking for the super heart of a fit cyclist, you have to work at it!

Good luck.

 

[Cindysphinx]

Mine is pretty low. Usually 44. Nurse usually takes it with a machine, can't believe it, takes it again by hand.

 

[Fuji]

Mine is pretty low. Usually 44. Nurse usually takes it with a machine, can't believe it, takes it again by hand.

That's pretty scary! :shock: You must be in really good shape!

-Fuji

 

[crystal_clear]

That's pretty scary! :shock: You must be in really good shape!

-Fuji

I agree~

Where are you in Canada， Fuji?