Attached is the ride we did tonight, June 9. Attached here is the corresponding HR Handout for students.
"Gear up your road, and find 80%." I instruct.
You geared up your bike and held your pace, and perceived the higher heart rate.... that and a dollar will get you a cup of coffee but no closer to knowing whether or not you got within the ball park of 80%, or any given heart rate for that matter.
So what to do? If you've no heart rate monitor, you might feel like it's a lost cause. This ride is meant to teach you not only how to check your heart rate on the fly in any Spinning class, but to attain ability to better feel out your heart rate.
These zones are based on APMHR (Age-Predicted Max Heart Rate), as for a general student about whom you know nothing, you've nothing better to go off of. Attached also is a chart for the three heart rate zones upon which the ride focuses. The chart provides three pieces of information per heart rate: next to age is a heart rate target for men, for women, and then to the right is a heart rate target for a 15-second pulse count, taken either from the radial artery, preferably, and the carotid if the pulse cannot be found at the radial (remember that the carotid can cause a sudden drop in blood pressure and is not preferable under stress of exercise.
Remember that a 15 second heart rate count is inaccurate up to 4 beats from one-minute heart rate. If you find taking your pulse manually to be obtrusive and tedious, the easy, sensible, and RECOMMENDED solution is to buy a heart rate monitor, with which we can tone you in to your LT.
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Patrick
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