Originally Posted by
mr_pedro
Well, now is only 1 year later since I started cycling so I am still only 36yr old and max of 182 I have seen during short hard efforts is close to 220-age. I have never tried a max heart rate test as I understand that requires somebody with a gun behind you.
So I assume that when people talk about the heart slowing down with age it is for comparable efforts? So is the oxygen consumption then still the same and can older people somehow bring more oxygen to the muscles with less blood?
I don't know. I don't think anybody does...
But I do think that for many, many years medical science has simply assumed that things like fraility, dementia, heart disease and the like are simply ramifications of aging rather then preventable illnesses -- so they have never really investigated things like why our hearts slow down as we age. Simply put, that goes against the norm and there's no money in it for them.