Originally Posted by
chinarider
As others have said, the variation is much more than that. This is the result of a poll taken here last year:
View Poll Results: 50+ people .. What is your current Max HRVoters 130. This poll is closed
Max HR above 190 14 10.77% 180-189 34 26.15% 170-179 41 31.54% 160-169 20 15.38% 150-159 9 6.92% 149 or under 12 9.23%
The entire thread can be found
here. As can be seen, using 220-age is not "close enough for most of us here." Not by a long shot. And you don't have to be a pro to want reasonably accurate results. As they say, garbage in, garbage out.
A poll based on a small self-selected sample of people responding at this forum does not mean very much, IMO. It's the same issue you included in a quote in one of your posts criticizing the original sample:
"But, exercise physiologists said, these data, like virtually all exercise data, had limitations. They relied on volunteers who most likely were not representative of the general population. "It's whoever came in the door," Dr. Kirkendall said."