What Is My Max Heart Rate?

How much attention do you pay to your max heart rate? 🤔🫀

Let us know in the comments! 💬

Thumbnail is correct. You should 100% stop using AGE - 220. You will get negative max BPM. 👍

lol Mark outrunning the Treadmill is such a flex.

Thank god! Was worried my heart rate would be -200!

Treadmill manufacturers tremble when Mark sets foot on the factory floor.

Should have changed the slope on the treadmill for Mark.

I recorded a max of 237 when I was 19, often going over 220 during surges in races. I could average 200 for an hour during hard road races. I actually went to a doctor to see if there was something wrong with me.
Now I'm 32, and can still can go above 210.

What a fun episode!! And it has given me a guideline for doing my own max heart rate test at the gym. Thanks GTN crew!
And Welcome Back Heather!!

Among my friends who run and bike, i think im the only one whose max heart rate is actually 220 - age. I’ve never used that formula, but my max is 178, and im 42. But i know a guy in his 60s whose max is around 215!

The last formula works well for me. Max HR is the one thing that really has changed with age for me, I am 54 and I go by 176 as my max. It makes you have to work hard to keep in zone 2 when your max is so low. Nice work Belinda! Really going for it in the test.

Hit 201 during a race last year, after going all out for the final 2k trying to keep up with the pacer for my target time. That was measured with a chest-strap in the final 10% of an hour long race, showing steady increase rather than any spikes, so I feel pretty confident in the measurement.

Haven't quite hit those extremes since the race, but during hard runs and bike sprints, I get up in the mid 190s, which seems to track.

36 years old, did no exercise for most of my 20s, so I think I'm pretty lucky to have that capacity.

It's so very, very difficult to stay motivated enough to measure your max HR! I don't know if I could ever do it on a treadmill; I need a hill, and preferably also a race, but if the race is too short or too long, I won't hit my absolute max. Usually I just use the estimate of my smartwatch; I always wear an HR strap.

37 years old, hitting 193-200 ocassionally for fun.
If you haven't trained for a longtime, your heart beats a lot higher and a 180bpm run is no longer as hard as before. But once your heart is trained a 180bpm run becomes much harder, but at the same time you are also faster.

I'm 75, and both my max (180) and resting (65) defy the conventional wisdom. I test regularly, and rely on the results for my training.

So I reached the end of the video not know what does that mean? How important it is our to heart rate? What does that value tell us? How can that be of use to me in my trainings? Why should I care about that number? Are there reasons to be worried about? These were the things I was expecting to see on this video. 😅Plus: You ended up not saying what is the best way to go about measure our heart rate. Is just running for 400m with regular speed increases? And for those who can't (or shouldn't) run?

Awesome & Thanks :)

I’ve been going off the stress test from my cardiologist where I went over 200 (I’m 35) but their test is slower speed but it increases both speed and incline at set increment (2mins if I remember correctly) I think incline spikes my heart rate more than moving my legs faster 😅

I did one of these test's in the hospital a few years ago and got 188 Max HR. Which is coincidentally 220-my age at the time. And the thing that got me to do that test was the fact I complained to my doctor that one night I woke up, and my heart was racing like never before, so I measured it and it was also 188. So I had to go into the kitchen and walk it off till it calmed down.

Max is 171 , after two heart procedures. I can feel the max by the tingling on my skin

I would be curious to see you to a multi-faceted one; testing it separately with both running and cycling, and comparing you guys to specialists (get GCN and the Running Channel in on it!) to see how much specialization effects a difference between sports.