Target Heart Rate Calculator
ENTERING YOUR INFORMATION
During exercise, you want to elevate your heart rate to strengthen
it while avoiding rates that endanger it. According to the American
Heart Association, the best heart rates to achieve during exercise
are between 50 and 75 percent of your maximum heart rate.
Use our Target Heart Rate Calculator to compute the appropriate
heart rate for people your age to achieve during exercise. If
you're beginning an exercise program, you should aim for the
low end of this range. More experienced exercisers can aim for
higher target rates.
1. Enter your age in the space provided.
2. Click SUBMIT.
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You're sweating through another aerobic workout, and you're wondering
whether you're overdoing it or not working hard enough. Pacing
yourself is extremely important to maximizing the benefits of
exercise. What's the right pace for you?
One way of finding the right pace is to monitor how fast your
heart is pumping during your workout. According to the American
Heart Association, the safest and most effective pace of exercise
is one that keeps your heart pumping at a speed between 50% and
75% of your maximum heart rate. Fill in the information below
and we'll calculate the range of target heart rates that may
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