Heart Rate

What is Target Heart Rate?
 

• An easy way to count your heartbeats
•  The optimal heart rate at which an athlete should perform 
• Number of times your heart beats per minute while at rest
•  Is the number of heartbeats per unit of time

How do you find your pulse? 
 

•  Neck, Wrist and Chest 
• Count your heartbeats for 10 seconds and multiply by 6 
•  Is expressed as beats per minute (BPM) 
•   Elbow, Ankle and Ear

A person's target heart rate should be __ to __ % of his or her maximum heart rate.

•  0 to 80 % 
• 30 to 60 % 
• 6 to 8 % 
• 60 to 80 %

How do you calculate your Max heart rate?
   

•  220 - Your Age 
• 250 - Your Weight 
• 220 - Your Height
• 20 - Your Age

How do you calculated your target heart rate (THR)?
 

•  Resting heart rate x 60% (.60) = THR 
• Max heart rate x 60% (.60) / 80% (.80) = THR 
• Heart rate x 10% (.10) = THR
•  Max heart rate x 20% (.20) = THR

What is Resting Heart Rate?

•  220 - Your Age 
• Karvonen Formula
• The number of times your heart beats per minute at rest 
•  The minimum number of heartbeats in a given amount of time 

What does your Heart Rate help you figure out? 
  

•  If you are exercising at the right intensity 
• How fast your heart beats while your active 
• How much fun are you having
• When you have eaten too much 

Which of the health related components of fitness can we related this unit ?
 

•  Flexibility
• Cardiovascular Fitness 
• Muscular Strength 
• Muscular Endurance 

Do you check your heart rate daily?

• Sometimes..

• No, Not really

• I didn't know about it till now

• Yes, everyday

Heart rate when the body is at rest

• Slow heart rate

• Resting heart rate

• Target heart rate

• Working heart rate