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Its possible your max HR is way above your age (the 220 - age thing is really inaccurate). You can buy a chest strap / get properly tested to find out. I would

Its possible your max HR is way above your age (the 220 - age thing is really inaccurate). You can buy a chest strap / get properly tested to find out. I would try to make at least some of the workouts a bit more challenging - you can try pick up running. Or if you're working the stairs machine, do it faster and for longer for at least part of the time. This will not only make it more interesting for you - its also the only way to improve your vO2 max if all you're doing is 3 workouts a week (and a higher v02 max should be your goal is you're thinking about longevity / health). As for energy levels - I meant in general. After hard workouts I can be quite exhausted for 24 hours sometimes. That's normal. But my sleep is usually higher quality and the day after I'm a bit more vital. My mood is more stabilized etc. Anyway good luck! I hope you'll take away from this that its OK to change /mix things up and see what works for you.

SirMaster 2y ago
I did always kind of wonder if i'm even using the right heart rate zones. But it's not like I am trying to train for any specific purpose. Just to be healthy, so I doubt I need to go to the level of doing a lab test to find that out. I can definitely just increase the intensity. Overall I don't feel like I have ever been in touch with my body or mood or things like that. Like I don't know how I would judge how well I slept on a given night. I don't normally wake up in the middle of the night or anything like that. I don't really feel I can gauge my sleep quality by how I feel when I wake up because when I wake up for work on a weekday I am always tired. I just assume that's because I am not a morning person, and I only feel rested and good if I wake up more like around 10-11am on a day that I don't have to be up earlier. As for mood, I rarely feel like I am in tune with that much either. Maybe it's a learned skill and I just never took the time to develop it or something. I feel more or less the same the vast majority of the time and that's about how well I can put it. If my mood is changing, it's not something I normally "notice" on its own I guess. It's always a struggle for me to decide what exactly to do, because I feel like when looking up that information all you find is that it's all contradictory in some way the more you keep reading into it.

SirMaster 2y ago

I did always kind of wonder if i'm even using the right heart rate zones. But it's not like I am trying to train for any specific purpose. Just to be healthy, so I doubt I need to go to the level of doing a lab test to find that out. I can definitely just increase the intensity. Overall I don't feel like I have ever been in touch with my body or mood or things like that. Like I don't know how I would judge how well I slept on a given night. I don't normally wake up in the middle of the night or anything like that. I don't really feel I can gauge my sleep quality by how I feel when I wake up because when I wake up for work on a weekday I am always tired. I just assume that's because I am not a morning person, and I only feel rested and good if I wake up more like around 10-11am on a day that I don't have to be up earlier. As for mood, I rarely feel like I am in tune with that much either. Maybe it's a learned skill and I just never took the time to develop it or something. I feel more or less the same the vast majority of the time and that's about how well I can put it. If my mood is changing, it's not something I normally "notice" on its own I guess. It's always a struggle for me to decide what exactly to do, because I feel like when looking up that information all you find is that it's all contradictory in some way the more you keep reading into it.