How Does Exercise Affect Your Heart?
By Erica L. Robinson
When performing cardio, blood flow is directed toward working muscles and away from areas that aren't doing much (such as your arms during running, or the digestive tract).
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Understanding your Target Heart Rate
It is recommended that you exercise within 55 to 85 percent of your maximum heart rate for at least 20 to 30 minutes to get the best results from aerobic exercise. The MHR (roughly calculated as 220 minus your age) is the upper limit of what your cardiovascular system can handle during physical activity.
Knowing your target heart rate is including understanding heart rate variability are essential tools to monitoring your fitness goals. Learn how to understand your heart rate and which level you should be aiming for.
When performing cardio, blood flow is directed toward working muscles and away from areas that aren't doing much (such as your arms during running, or the digestive tract).
According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention), about 600,000 people die from heart disease in the United States every year.
The first article in this series, Should You Train According to Heart Rate?, explained that heart rate training can be an ideal tool for runners to use because it's predictable.
Heart rate training can be confusing due to all the terminology used and the many opinions on how to determine your threshold zone.
Here's some good news for all those hopelessly time-crunched individuals out there: it's not the amount of minutes you spend exercising that matters, it's your heart rate.
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