After my wife gave me a HRM I wanted to find my max so I could train accordingly.

Trouble was, I couldn't tell what my max was because there were too many variables that influenced the maximum readings on my monitor and I kept on getting different maxs'. Biggest problem was sometimes, the monitor registered a number that was so high, it had to have been a malfunction or a chest sensor disconnect.

I went for a stress test the other week and from what I could gather, I didn't reach my max. At least I didn't feel like I made it. I did fine, and got a high reading, but they stopped the test even though I could have gone on. If you want a max number, shouldn't you go until you can't go any more?

IMy brother had a heart attack at a young age and it looked like I had some irregularities in the sinus nodes of my heart so I wasn't as concerned with the training aspects of knowing my max rate from this test as I was that the SA node of my heart was functioning properly.

Maybe I should ask my doctor about this.