"Heart" Rate

Good Evening Everyone,

After this past week I have taken time to reflect on our topic of heart rate. I have not done a good job of explaining way we need to know our max heart rate. We need to understand it and know what it is for ourselves so that we do not stay there. Let me explain:

I calculated my max heart rate, it is 177. While I was skate skiing this weekend I discovered that climbing hills put me up to my max and beyond. No problem for short periods and even better was the fact that once I topped the hills my heart rate dropped down to 114 within 45 seconds. On that flats I made it a point to work hard enough to keep my rate at about 135.

So my point, the reason we do cardio is improve our ability to work hard without the heart being over tasked (fighting a fire or stressful medical call) and then the hearts ability to recover.

I cant emphasis enough, it this seems foreign to you please ask questions, do not hesitate to call.

Finally, more from John "The Penguin" Bingham:

The side effect of focusing on what I was feeling was that words like "winning" and "losing" were replaced by words like "doing" and "becoming" in my vocabulary. All my old notions of failure were replaced by an evolving definition of success.