I started wearing my HRM during my commute and holy hell... I'm averaging an average of 155bpm for an hour and a half a day. It goes up to 170 when I'm going with traffic, 180 when I'm hammering it or going up hills, and 130-140 when I'm stopped at a light. I better take some light days off before I burst a vessel.

Well how do you feel?

My heart rate goes crazy high when I go to the doctor's office... I hate doctors

Or maybe all that cardio exercize will keep you for busting a vessel!

You're doing great. Keep it up and expand on it.

I feel like crap by the end of the day lol. Tired. But once I'm on it, I feel like crap if I'm moving like a slow poke.

I know the feeling. I leave work, feeling exhausted. And then I just gotta hammer away on my way home.

did you take a resting HR first thing in the morning yet?

See, I only get 5-6 hours of sleep a night, at most, so in the morning I have this alarm that wakes me up.. BARRRR BARRRR BARRR BARRRRR! So by the time I have my eyes open, my ass off the bed, and my feet in my slippers, I have to put the safety back on on the glock, put the kabar knife back into its sheath, and my heart rate's at around 140.

But on the rare occasion that I do wake up by myself, I usually count anywhere between 9-10 beats every 15 seconds.

yeah, so I'm DEFINITELY never moving to NYC after reading that

What? You don't sleep with a glock on your night stand? I do...ok it isn't loaded and it is only there because I was cleaning it. Now why does a 17 yr old have a glock you ask? It was an inheratince from my grandpa when he passed, I have gone through a lot of gun safety so I am comfortable with it

This sounds pretty close to what I do. I don't know if you're younger than I am (I'm 38), which would make a difference. If you want to get scientific about it, you can read about setting up different HR zones for training on specific days. I just have one zone set up and I have my monitor alarm if I go outside 127-155. The damn thing beeps all the time on the high side, but it lets me know that I need to think about taking it a little easier or eventually I will blow myself out and my average goes to hell.

slvoid,

You cannot put the safety "back on" on a Glock as there is no external safety like those on other pistols, the insternal safety is re-activated when you remove your finger from the trigger. But we appreciate your attempt at gun safety. :-)

I found my HRM (which just broke after about 3 weeks of use) to be a great training tool. My inclination was to hammer both to and from work regardless of how I felt or what my body needed. I would find myself burned out by the end of the week and also realized that I wasn't spending my riding time as efficiently as I should have in order to burn fat. I think that if you were to concentrate on staying in your cardio zone for most of your ride that you'd feel much better. It is difficult to resist the urge to hammer (sometimes you have no choice) but, in the long run, I think you'll feel better for it.

I call BS, buddy. You're saying your resting HR is on par with genetic freaks like Migual Indurain and Lance Armstrong? If so, you chose the wrong line of work.

excellent..

Don't forget to put the pins back in the grenades that are under your bike tires !!!

Perhaps he has the SAF-T-BLOK.

https://members.aol.com/saftblok/

I'm disturbed to learn that there's no safety on Glocks since I know the state patrol when I grew up used them as their service issue weapons. Spooky.

i was amazed when i wore my HRM out on the bike for the first time. perviously i only wore it on the trainer inside over the winter. i would find it comfortable around 120-130 BPM range, but when i went outside the same percieved effort had my HR at about 140-160 bpm. i was surprised because i was only going like 17 or 18 mph on a flat. now, if i take a recovery day - it's small chain ring only and hardly getting above 15mph.

With the block, it literally ejects away and you have to "put it back on." LOL.

"Wait, hang on guys, my safety fell off."

I'm telling you, it's true.
And I always thought it wasn't the RHR that determines their ability, it was their LT. Someone mentioned there was once a rider in the tour who's RHR was in the 60's.
And yes... I probably am in the wrong line of work, I don't particularly enjoy engineering that much...

Perhaps it's mostly psychological. I know I can be sitting here at work at 60bpm but 15 min before I leave, it goes up to 90. When I'm at the door, it's at 120. Usually the day after a hard workout, I can be sitting here and it'd be running around 70.
You should see me when I run, 2 miles on flat ground and I'll be pegged at 180+. I don't think I'm able to run more than 6-7mph.

Naturally both are important. Low RHR and high LT ==> lots of beats to use for endurance sports. I remember that there was at least one Europro who had 60bpm RHR (can't remember). Honestly, though, 36-40bpm is off the charts!

When I was training with a heart-rate monitor (lost the chest strap some time ago and haven't been motivated to replace it.) I regularly recorded a resting pulse rate of 40 bpm. I thought "That's odd, I don't feel *that* fit."

Turns out, I'm probably not, it's more likely related to a condition known as bradycardia (I haven't actually been "officially" diagnosed, but the description of symptoms found in internet literature on the subject all seems to match.). Symptoms of which include abnormally low resting heart-rate, and dizziness. Y'know that feeling when you sit up too fast and get all dizzy? That happens to me *all the time*.

-Trevor

Holy crap, I feel that way too. I'm always holding onto my gf when I get out of my seat too fast to get off the subway. I thought it was low blood pressure and I was taking in extra sodium (well I figured it can't do any harm, I lose so much of it anyway).

Why are you hammering on your commute? Save your effort on a real training ride. What you are doing is not only tiring you out but causing you to adopt a really bad training routine. When you go hard on your hard days, you want to be consistent but not being stopped by lights or traffic. You are training to race, right??? I NEVER hammer on my commute. I save my suffering on my training days when I do 33 minutes TT interval effort in CP. Or spending more than an hour doing hill interval repeats (4 to 5) in the River Road's Alpin police station climb.

I recall a study but I'm fuzzy on the details, but it said that during exercise some people's heart rate rises way high then steadily falls as the exercise continues. Other people's heart rate simply rises normally. There was some advantage to the first group, but I can't recall what it was.