Originally Posted by
ctpres
The answer to ones max heart rate can be found many ways. Doing it on a bike should produce good results but I wonder if finding my MHR climbing hills till I puke or see stars at 76 is a good idea. With insurance an exercise stress test cost is typically $200 to $300 and is supervised. For now I slow down or stop and rest when I hit 160 but suspect I could go well beyond that. Up till now 99% of my riding has been flat land. This summer I plan to spend a couple months in CO. and would like to have some kind of safe limit I can ride by. If I keep the 160 I would probably be stopping every mile and that is not much of a ride. My question is - what do you do?
Have to confess I'm not quite old enough to sit an the big folks table here yet (63 in 2 weeks) but I'd like to chime in anyway if that's ok! I've gone for stress tests twice since 2007 (might be due?), and in neither case could I convince them to test me for my max. Nor would they tell me my LT. These docs were interested in investigating to detect possible health issues, not teach me how to ride faster.