Originally Posted by
Road Fan
Dudelsack, how do you know that was your max? Seems to me that the max is very hard to experience and requires a sustained extreme effort? I don't know what I'd have to go through to convince myself I saw my max hr, but I don't think it would be pleasant.
Quite. If you haven't had to stop and throw up it's likely you haven't hit your max. Even then, put a gun to your head and you might have squeezed out a beat or two more.
But it is immaterial, really, max HR is not an important number for training purposes.