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Should You Get a Heart Rate Monitor?
You've heard me talking about them and you've probably seen them on people at the gym: Heart Rate Monitors. Duh, duh dom.
I know they can seem scary and you may be thinking my heart is fine, I don't need to monitor it.
Gear Review: Polar RS300X Heart Rate Monitor With Foot Pod
I love training with a heart rate monitor, and Polar is my favorite brand. These days I have been working out with the RS300X ($170). Designed with running in mind, this HRM is great for other sports as well.
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Yesterday the Federal Reserve announced its seventh interest rate cut since September, lowering the federal funds rate by a quarter-point to 2 percent. Interest rates are now at their lowest since 2004 and reflect the Fed's ongoing concern about a weakening economy. The prime lending rate that affects consumers and businesses dropped correspondingly, which could have a positive effect on some credit cards and loans.
You Asked: Max Heart Rate and Sprints
You're asking and I'm answering.
Hi Fit,
I've been working out with a heart rate monitor and I've noticed that when I work out, my heart rate is around 174 sometimes spiking up to the 180's when I sprint. I have always worked out at this intensity and certainly don't feel any worse for the wear.
Fitness 101: Resting Heart Rate
When it comes to matters of the heart, numbers matter. The number of times your heart beats per minute, when you are at rest, indicates the strength and efficiency of your cardiovascular system. A strong heart is able to pump more blood with every beat, so you want a low resting heart rate (RHR).
What's the Deal With: STRAPLESS Heart Rate Monitors
In case you're not familiar with heart rate monitors, they usually come with a watch you wear on your wrist, and a chest strap transmitter that you wear around your chest, since it is after all a chest strap. This strap goes next to your skin (sometimes you have to wet it a little with saliva or water to activate it) and it reads your heart rate and transmits the beats per minute to the watch.
Heart rate monitors can be expensive, depending on how many bells and whistles you get, but these strappy heart rate monitors will give you a constant readout of your heart rate, whether you're moving or not.
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Yesterday's news isn't the last we'll hear from the Fed regarding interest rates. Their two day regularly scheduled meeting is just next week, and another rate reduction may be announced by the time the meeting is adjourned. Rate cuts are being used to calm the markets and instill consumer confidence to keep us investing and spending.
Low Resting Heart Rate?
Have you noticed that since working out your resting heart rate is lower than it was? This is no cause for alarm as most athletes (yup, you're an athlete now) generally have low heart rates.
Runner's World gives us this analogy:...consider a bricklayer lifting bricks.
You Asked: Hold On for Heart Rate?
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Get in Gear: Heart Rate Monitor
OK so after playing around in the Fit's Calculator, you've figured out that you don't like taking your heart rate manually -- Too much work involved.
You've probably seen other people sporting their heart rate monitor watches at the gym but are you a little intimidated by them? It seems a little scary to go to the store and buy your own, especially when you may have no idea what you are getting yourself into.
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