Bath - my aim is to crack 180!!!! I like to push it high when I'm training. The best I've managed is 171. I average about 150 during my training sessions... Glad you love you monitor! They rock! But now I'm jealous and want a pretty red one
LOL yesterday I ended up ringing my GP and asking how safe it was to do 180bpm given that I have Graves. He said it depended on lots of things, how fit I was and whether I started to feel any symptoms like pain/light headedness etc at the time. I "do" that hill twice a day on the school run... and I would say I have probably nearly reached 200bpm on other days when walking harder. But it's not something I want to try to test out ATM while I have all this extra thyroid hormone in my system.
Another thing that I am finding interesting is the continuous calorie counter on my HRM. I have never dieted but I am surprised to learn that walking 2km each day on the school run only covers my 2 cups of coffee that I have each day. I would have thought it would have covered more. I wore my HRM for 15 hours straight yesterday and used just over 5000 calories. I averaged 105 bpm over the 15 hours.
MG: now that I have a HRM I can really understand how mortified you must have been when you lost your strap! I wonder if you can buy them separately?
I also wonder how long it will be before I get over my new toy? LOL I hope to keep a record for at least a week of my average daily HR. Just to see which way it's trending.
Hehe - I was so devestated when I lost it! I don't know if you can buy them seperately because I think they're linked to individual "watch" components (the bit on your hand). Although the equipment at the gym picks up my strap and displays on the equipment I'm using...
I'm wishing I had a calorie counter on mine. Perhaps if I get a new contract at work, I'll buy one...
Before i started PT, I went through phases using my HRM... got bored with it and stopped. But now I feel naked without it if I'm doing any sort of exercise!
And your GP is right - a heart rate alone is just a number. It depends on various other symptoms as well such as the ones he mentioned. A heart rate of 200 can be just as bad as 120 if you're having other symptoms such as light headedness, nausea etc. But I think tracking it for a few weeks is a brilliant idea!
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It's waterproof to 50m. The strap felt a bit damp for a while but dried eventually.
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