Health And Fitness For Life

If you want your workout program to be more safer, proficient and accurate, you will need to compute your workout zone.  There are a range of monitors that will meet your needs: that range from MIO heart rate monitor watches to monitors which have the features to support your exercise goals.  When Polar heart rate setting and meeting your goals, you want to focus on your training zones which enable you to tailor your workout to your heart and present fitness level.  The information from MHR and RHR will help you setup a chart to let you know how much of strain your heart is having at a particular heart rate.

The development of your chart which is based on percentile marker which starts with your MHR at a 100%. There will be decrease by 5% increments until you reach the 50% percentile which will give you a clear idea of how your heart is responding in the workout.

This is the formula needed to create your chart (MHR - RHR  x Percent Level) + RHR

Example:  MHR is 180 and a RHR of 40 @ a 95% level  (180-40 x .95)+40 = BPM

for 90% level  (170-30 x .90) + 30 = BPM  etc. until 50%

Each level is very important because you can tailor your workout program and have an accurate track of you results.  All this information can be pas on to your computer with the help of your Heart  Rate Monitor.