Heart Rate Test

Not sure of your maximum heart rate: try this test for runners?

You will need:

1. Somewhere to run without having to stop for cars
2. A watch with a second hand or digital watch
   

Run for 15 minutes at a fast pace until the point where you're exhaling very hard and would find it impossible to talk without taking massive breaths in the middle.

Follow this with a 400m full out sprint. After 400m stop and immediately find your heart rate.

Get your heart rate for 20 seconds (for example: 60)

Multiply this number by three (in this example 180)

Add five.

Congratulations you know have your approximate maximum heart rate.

Stay Healthy,
John K Russell
Running Cheltenham
Running Gloucester
www.nomoregym.co.uk