Heart Rate

What is heart rate?

• Oxygen going to the heart

• The number of times your heart beats in a minute

• Blood pumping though the body

• Carbon dioxide leaving the body

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

What should your heart rate be when exercising ?

• Resting heart rate

• Max heart rate

• In your target heart rate zone

• Minimum heart rate

Carotid artery

• Pulse on wrist

• Pulse on side of neck

• Pulse on foot

• Pulse behind knee

Artery of the wrist

• Ulnar

• Radial

• Carotid

• Thoracic

How to find your maximum heart rate

• 220 - your age = MHR

• 230 - your age = MHR

• Resting heart rate x 2 = MHR

• 300 - working heart rate = MHR

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

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 calculated 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