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33 MPH, 159 Maximum heart-rate

by Faster on 14 Sep 2013, 23:35

I went cycling in the hills again. Everything was tight on my bike -- and nothing fell off. If I'm ever going to reach my maximum heart-rate this would be the time. I climbed a few of these hills at my maximum speed -- and so I guess, at my current fitness level 159 is my maximum heart rate, which is consistent with my lowering minimum heart rate of 47 beats per minute.
Charts from this article http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/65/1/141.full.pdf in the journal "Circulation" indicate lowest rates are between 3am and 4am. Charts suggest that normally, minimum heart rates lower by about 0.5 bpm each year from 40-60 years old, and that my age group has typical lowest bpm of 75.
I love reading this dense jargon (and chuckle a little bit about how the researchers like to add fog to the room):
Deconditioning due to sedentary lifestyle is a common accompaniment of aging, and undetected significant coronary artery disease may be present in more than one-fourth of persons older than 45 years of age.

Scientists are all about trying to impress each other :cool:
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