The Significance of Monitoring Heart Rate

What is the importance of resting heart rate?

Your resting heart rate is a good indicator on how fit you are and it will help tell the condition of
your heart. Our heart can let us know if we are fighting off infections, illness or injury. Keeping
your heart rate low at rest will help prevent heart disease.
What is the best time to check your heart rate?
The best time to measure your heart rate is in the morning while you are still in bed. To
calculate your resting heart rate is the number of pulses that you count in a minute. Or you can
count how many pulses in 6 seconds and multiply that by ! to get to 6! seconds.
What is Cardiac Drift?
"ardiac #rift is the progressive increase in heart rate that happens during endurance e$ercise
with little or no workloads. Your heart rate will %drift& upwards while you are working out. 'hat
happens is your core body temperature will increase. This will cause your heart rate to increase
but your stroke volume will decrease. (o your cardiac output and o$ygen intake will remain the
same. You will notice more during e$ercise. )or instance if you are in a hot room, insufficient
water intake, or high humidity cardiac drift results in increased heart rate without the o$ygen
uptake associated or caloried burned.
Is Measuring Intensity Through Heart Rate a Vaid Measure of Intensity?
* do think that by measuring intensity through heart rate is valid measure because when you
stress your heart as it is in done at the doctors under supervision as a %stress test& it provides
vidal information about your heart under different intensity levels as you e$ercise. Other factors
include how much you have hydrated, if the room is hot and what type of e$ercise you are
doing.
Work !ones "ased on Ma# Heart Rate $ppropriate?
* do think that prescribing work +ones based on ma$imum heart rate is appropriate because
your heart is a muscle. #uring the different +ones ,recovery, aerobic and anerobic- your heart
muscle is e$ercised to get stronger. .ore o$ygen is transported through your body and utili+ed
to cope with the lactic acid your body is eliminating.