The Importance Of Your Pulse Rate
Your pulse is how many times your heart beats, and we usually measure it in beats per minute. The harder you work the greater demand you put on your body and the harder it works.
Your pulse is how many times your heart beats, and we usually measure it in beats per minute. The harder you work the greater demand you put on your body and the harder it works. Usually we consider a resting heart rate that is your heart rate when you are just sitting, to be normal if it works at 70 – 75 beats per minute. Ninety beats per minute, although a tad on the high side could still be considered to be in the normal range. Over 90 would be considered poor, and 60 or under good.
The Importance Of Your Pulse Rate
Why is your pulse so important and why is it considered better to have a lower pulse than a higher one? Ponder on this! The difference in heart rate between the person with the 90bpm. and the person with the 70bpm. is 30bpm. In an hour the difference is 1,800 beats, and the difference in a day is 43,200 beats. In a week 302,400 beats and in a month 1,209,600. In a year the difference is 14,515,200 beats, which means that the 90bpm. persons heart is working at over fourteen and a half million beats to do the same thing as the 60bpm. person. Think what that means over a life time.
How To Take Your Pulse
The first time that you try to take your pulse you may find it a little difficult. In fact you may even have difficulty in finding it. Take my word for it, it is there, if you had no pulse you wouldn’t be in any state to find it. Place the index and middle fingers of your right hand on the thumb side of your left wrist until you feel your pulse throbbing under your fingers. Using the second hand on your watch starting the first beat at zero, count how many times your pulse beats in fifteen seconds. Multiply by four to find your resting pulse rate.
Lowering Your Pulse Rate
The harder you exercise the higher your pulse will beat, but fortunately the human heart can work at about 200bpm. without causing injury. This would of course mean pushing yourself to the limit. Not a good move! You should, though, always be aware of your heart beat during exercise. One of your goals is to lower your pulse rate. This will make your heart work more efficiently and be more resistant to injury. The way to do this is to place more stress on the heart to make it work a little harder and a little faster without overburdening it. Like any muscle that is exercised it will become stronger and more efficient.
What Is A Safe Maximum Heart Rate
There are a number of methods of working out your safe maximum heart beat during exercise, but the simplest that gives an easy but good indication is as follows. This method gives a good safety margin as it works on 200bpm. whilst in actual fact the hearts maximum is nearer to 220bpm.
Take your age from 200. If you are 20 years old then your maximum heart rate will be 180. This will be considered as your maximum heart rate that you will never purposely exceed. To train your heart you will need to put it progressively under strain between your resting heart rate and your maximum heart rate. I will give more information on how to do that in a future article.
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