Thursday, 2 August 2012

Calculating optimum fat burning heart rate

From a WikiHow article.

1. Resting heart rate (calculated with the excellent Android heart rate monitor)
62

2. Maximum heart rate = 220 - 37
183

3. Heart rate reserve = step2 - step1
121

4. Lower THR is 60% of step3 = 121 * 0.6 + step1
134.6

5. Upper THR is 80% of step3 = 121 * 0.8 + step1
158.8

So my target heart rate is 134.6 at the fat-burning end, to 158.8 at the cardio end.