Road Cycling - Am I a freak?! :)

As I said it, am I a freak or am I just plian crazy?

As you probbably all wonder what this is all about, here it is: I was going for my PB on a 2km climb, lowered it by 23 seconds on 10 min flat :) . But I did it with the average hearth rate of 197 BPM .

So hm...

As they say: Give the Poor money and the Madman brains :D

P.S.: My max. HR is 207, and I am 22

No one knows. How did you come across your max heart rate? Were you tested?

When I was 27, My average heart rate for rides was about that number. I remember doing hill repeats and averaging my heart rate about 204. One time I went as high as 211. In 1999, I would do intervals when I was running and my heart rate was as high as 221...

Maximum heart rates are individual. There are a number of factors that affect maximum heart rate. If you're truly concerned about your numbers, have someone perform a professionally monitored stress test on you. Check your latest university or see if there is a performance lab in your area that could perform a test for you.

It's good you can lower your heart rate quickly. Studies I've read say that the faster you can lower your heart rate, the fitter you are. People that have problems with lowering heart rate have fitness and sometimes health problems. If they have cardiovascular health problems, they'll need to see a doctor right away to determine their problems. What's important to figure out is how fast you can lower your heart rate in the first two minutes of recovery after your interval. Nowadays, in the first minute of recovery after a stressful interval, I can lower my heart rate 40 beats. Within 2 minutes, I'm at 55% heart rate max. I've been working on recovery for the last 3 or so years. I'd like to improve on that- I'm working on getting to 60% of my max heart rate within the first minute of my recovery and and 50% max heart rate within the second minute. Hopefully, in the next 2 years I'll get to that point.

What you can do is have your performance stress test done. Then take your morning heart rate over the next couple of months also. Also, put together a periodization program so you can monitor your numbers more accurately, as well as train on keeping those numbers high as you age. Also, have an anaerobic threshold or lactate threshold test done to determine at what point you're burning calories vs. burning carbohydrates as an energy source, and to figure out at what point lactate accumulates in your bloodstream. A V02 max test will help to determine your oxygen capacity or aerobic capacity.

Stress tests will help you streamline your training and work at effectively increasing your performance.

Good luck.

Koffee

Uuuum, no. My buddy who's 39 gets his up to 203 routinely.

oh oh... over 200 is much. I can´t imagine this is healthy. Try to get the peak about 190. Depends on your age, of course.

This thread is a mystery to me..I guess I don't really understand what the dude saw as making him a freak....What did he lower by 23 seconds on a 10 min. flat????? And a 2km climb, unless crazy steep, doesn't sound like all that to me. A 207 max heart rate??? Big whup!

Originally posted by fubar5
This thread is a mystery to me..I guess I don't really understand what the dude saw as making him a freak....What did he lower by 23 seconds on a 10 min. flat????? And a 2km climb, unless crazy steep, doesn't sound like all that to me. A 207 max heart rate??? Big whup!

Lowered his time by 23 seconds to 10 minutes flat?
now at 9min 37sec?
I think the freak question is about the 207bpm, but as Koffee
stated so well in her post, that depends on the individual.

Thats my story and I'm sticking to it.

marty

I'll buy your story lotek.