Heart rate estimates on charts are not working for me. Topic

Momfour 02/28/09
I am 38 and the charts that tell you what heart rate to maintain seem too low for me. I have heard that if you go too high, you don't burn the right kind of calories...

Enantio 03/04/09
You mean the ones on cardio machines? I do not rely on them. They are meant for sedentary people I guess.

Dxs016 03/15/11
Get a decent heart rate monitor. Your heart rate should be split into zones. There is a fat burning zone which is 60-70% of your max heart rate. There is a high calorie zone as well which is 80-90% of max heart rate. You will burn more fat in the fat burn zone but as soon as you stop working out in that zone you will stop burning fat. The high calorie zone will put your metabolism into furnace mode and will burn glycogen stores as well as fat. The great benefit of this zone is that you will burn lots and lots of calories all day for ruffley 24 hours after exercising.

Google max heart rate calc. and also fat burn calc. I have links to these but not sure on the policy of linking as im new here to this site.

Rgds

Dean

Heart rate estimates on charts are not working for me.