Target Heart Rate

What is Target Heart Rate?
 

• An easy way to count your heartbeats
•  The optimal heart rate at which an athlete should perform 
• Number of times your heart beats per minute while at rest
•  Is the number of heartbeats per unit of time

How do you find your pulse?

• Neck, Wrist and Chest

• Count your heartbeats for 10 seconds and multiply by 6

• Count your heart beats for 30 seconds and multiply by 2

• Elbow, Ankle and Ear

A person's target heart rate should be __ to __ % of his or her maximum heart rate.

•  0 to 80 % 
• 30 to 60 % 
• 6 to 8 % 
• 60 to 80 %

How do you calculate your Max heart rate?
   

•  220 - Your Age 
• 250 - Your Weight 
• 220 - Your Height
• 20 - Your Age

How do you calculate your target heart rate (THR)?

• Resting heart rate x 60% (.60) = THR

• Max heart rate x 60% (.60) / 80% (.80) = THR

• Heart rate x 10% (.10) = THR

• Max heart rate x 20% (.20) = THR

What is Resting Heart Rate?

•  220 - Your Age 
• Karvonen Formula
• The number of times your heart beats per minute at rest 
•  The minimum number of heartbeats in a given amount of time 

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 

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Target heart rate relates MOST to which of the following components of health related fitness?

• Flexibility

• Cardiovascular Fitness

• Muscular Strength

• Muscular Endurance

Heart rate when the body is at rest

• Slow heart rate

• Resting heart rate

• Target heart rate

• Working heart rate

Common places to find heart rate

• Neck and wrist

• Tongue and armpit

• Thigh and bicep

• Ear and temple