Fitness 203 - Heart Rate

Heart Rate

Learning Objectives

•  Students will learn how to calculate their maximum heart rate

• Students will learn how to calculate their target heart rate zones for various cardiovascular exercises.

How do you know the intensity of your cardio workouts?

Frequency, duration and intensity of your exercise all factor into the effectiveness of your workout program. While you can easily track frequency and duration, determining the intensity of your workout is more challenging, which is where heart rate tracking comes into play.

Heart rate provides an objective measurement of how hard your body is working. The higher the exercise intensity, the higher your heart rate will be.

What should you know about your heart rate?

Your heart rate is the number of times your heart beats per minute. Normal heart rate varies from person to person.

Resting heart rate = number of times your heart beats per minute at rest

Maximum heart rate = maximum number of times you heart can beat per minute (220 - your age)

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What is Heart Rate?

• The number of times your heart beats.

• The number of times your heart beats per minute.

• The maximum amount of times your heart should be.

• The amount of times your heart should beat while exercising.

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Heart rate when the body is at rest

• Slow heart rate

• Resting heart rate

• Target heart rate

• Working heart rate

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What is max heart rate?

• Your heart rate when you are a complete state of rest.

• Your heart rate before you exercise.

• Your heart rate when your heart is working at it's maximum.

• Your heart rate after you recover from exercise.

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How do you calculate max HR?

• 240-age
• 220-age
• 220+age
• 240+age

Target Heart Rate =

The minimum number of heartbeats in a given amount of time in order to reach the level of exertion necessary for cardiovascular fitness.

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What should your heart rate be when exercising ?

• Resting heart rate

• Max heart rate

• In your target heart rate zone

• Minimum heart rate

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What is target HR

• Where you want your heart rate to be while exercising.

• The HR zone where you are working too hard

• The HR zone where you aren't working hard enough

• A dangerous zone

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Target heart rate is what percentage of your max heart rate?

• 30-70%

• 70-90%

• 60-85%

• 20-80%

Where is it and what is a normal heart rate? The best places to find your pulse are the:

• wrists

• side of your neck

To get the most accurate reading, put your finger over your pulse and count the number of beats in 60 seconds.

Many people also wear devices called heart rate monitors or have devices that instantly tell them what their heart rate is.

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Where are the two easiest places to find your pulse?

• foot and leg

• neck and wrist

• finger and thumb

• arm and leg

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Which of the health related components of fitness can we related this unit ?
 

•  Flexibility
• Cardiovascular Fitness 
• Muscular Strength 
• Muscular Endurance 

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What does your Heart Rate help you figure out? 
  

•  If you are exercising at the right intensity 
• How fast your heart beats while your active 
• How much fun are you having
• When you have eaten too much 

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While on a walk, my heartrate was at 110 bpm. Once I began to walk up a very steep hill, my heart rate went

• up

• down

• stayed the same

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How do you get into your target heart rate zone?

• 5 minutes of jogging SLOWLY around the basketball court.

• 20-30 minutes of being physically active without much rest.

• Taking a 20 minute nap after a long workout.

• Walking a mile with your parents or friends.

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In regards to heart rate, BPM stands for

• Beats per minute

• Back pressure minutes

• Blue pulsing muscles

• Bio paradigm mission

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Working out for 30 minutes at your maximum heart rate is recommended for heart health.

• true

• false