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> how do you know it would take less 'effort' to get the heart rate up for out of shape people? It's a staple of sports medicine. Fit people start out with a l
by vacri 11y ago
> how do you know it would take less 'effort' to get the heart rate up for out of shape people?
It's a staple of sports medicine. Fit people start out with a lower heart rate, and unfit people's heart rate rises much more rapidly with exercise. Get the two to climb a set of stairs - the fit person won't notice it, the unfit person will be slightly out of breath and have a noticeably higher heart rate (in some cases, may now even be able to feel their own pulse).
To reach beats-per-minute X, a fit person starts lower and has a longer ramp-up.
- eru 11y agoYes. I think the grandparent comment was disputing `effort', not intensity of exercise.
- csours 11y agoRight, I'm saying that when you are out of shape it takes more physiological and psychological effort to reach the same level of exercise intensity as a fit person.
- groby_b 11y agoWait - "may now even be able to feel their own pulse"? I'm reasonably fit, and I spent the day sitting at my desk. HR right now is 53. I can feel that just fine. Am I broken? ;)
- Smaug123 11y agoAs in, can feel it all over their body as a kind of pulsing, without having to measure it with two fingers against the wrist (for instance). Most people can't normally feel their pulse without measuring it.