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What's your heart rate after the first 20 or so? If it's beyond 70% max heart rate, you are likely going anaerobic, muscles and heart start switch from fat to
by ck2 5y ago
What's your heart rate after the first 20 or so?
If it's beyond 70% max heart rate, you are likely going anaerobic, muscles and heart start switch from fat to glycogen to ATP as the demand increases.
It's like a runner doing "speed work" on a track. First 800 relatively "easy". By the eight repeat, not so much.
- User23 5y agoYou’re absolutely right. It surprised me the first time I wore a heart rate monitor for a near max effort deadlift. Maxed out my heart rate in a mere five reps. On the other hand I’ve done high rep air squats and while I wasn’t wearing a monitor, it felt very much like the cardio zone.
- all2 5y agoI need a new heartrate monitor. I typically do about 100 reps for a given muscle group, and I think it would be good to see how my heart rate responds.
- ck2 5y agoThis is going to seem like an odd recommendation if you are a casual athlete but to save you time/money/satisfaction I strongly recommend a HRM strap instead of wrist optical and even more so if you can justify it, one that has self-storage and can download afterwards. Turns out monitoring via bluetooth and ANT+ has dropout at high heartrates. I think the Wahoo ticker-x is the only one that meets all those requirements and I think it can work without a watch too. I have the garmin hrm-pro which can save/download but it needs the watch to be connected to start working which is bad design. Check DCrainmaker website for latest reviews.