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04-06-17 | 07:50 AM

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Originally Posted by TimothyH

Max heart is a pretty useless metric whether you are training with heart rate or not.

Heart rate training zones should be set up as a percentage of lactic threshold, not max heart rate.

-Tim-

I think OP was just referring to the fact that he is having an increase in his HR high as he is getting older thinking it should be the opposite. LTH is the thing too know if really into training.

My achievable high HR is lowering as I am getting older and surely do in part to my cancer treatment. The thing most impressive for me regarding HR is the 32BPM recorded when I was having a pre-op EKG for my first cancer operation 2 years ago at the age of 64.

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