I am a huge advocate of monitoring heart rate during exercise to optimize health, safety and fitness and for the first time a landmark report has determined what calculation can accurately give women their “peak heart rate.”
Instead of the traditional 220 minus your age, the new formula is 206 minus 88% of your age. For a 50 year old woman, that is 8 beats less than the old formula calculation. For those of you like me who work out with a heart rate monitor – we have been going at it harder than we had too! (Circulation, June 2010)
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