Originally Posted by
oilman_15106
Max heart rate as a guage of fittness is a non starter. Recovery to normal rate from max is a much better guage. Also resting heart rate below 60 bpm is more to do with your genes than fittness. I researched this when the docs were touting President Bush's fittness with a resting hr of 45 bpm.
Good point. I forgot about this. Do you have any links I can look up? I might try this as part of a
workout and recover strategy.
As for resting rate, I wondered about this. Someone like Miguel Indurain had a resting rate near
death yet I remember reading Viatcheslav Ekimov's resting rate was 60. That seemed high for a
cyclist of his caliber.