Training Thresholds and Borg Scale

What does a 'threshold' refer to?

• How much something is

• A level of intensity

• Something to get to

• Working towards this

How do we roughly calculate maximum heart rate?

• 220 - age

• 220 x age

• 220 + age

• 220 / age

Using an example of a 15 year old, what would their maximum heart be roughly?

• 190 bpm

• 195 bpm

• 200 bpm

• 205 bpm

What does bpm stand for?

• Best per marathon

• Be persistently mediocre

• Beats per minute

• Bats per minute

The 'maximum amount of oxygen your body can take in and use in 1 minute' describes what?

• Maximum heart rate

• VO2 Max

• Heart rate

• Aerobic Zone

At what percentage of maximal heart rate do we train to be in our aerobic training threshold

• 60-85%

• 60-100%

• 50-80%

• 55-90%

At what percentage of maximal heart rate do we train to be in our anaerobic training threshold

• 60-85%

• 60-100%

• 85-95%

• 55-90%

What does RPE stand for in terms of effort?

• Rest, Practice, Exercise

• Really Positive Effort

• Rank Order per Example

• Rating of Perceived Exertion

The BORG scale ranges from which two numbers?

• 0-20

• 6-20

• 8-25

• 10-20

We can use the BORG scale to estimate heart rate, what must we do to the number to give an estimated heart rate?

• Multiply by 10

• Divide by 10

• Add 10

• Minus 10