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Ivar Hesselager
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Anyone out here with a good knowledge of the bicycle engine, who can tell
me, if it is safe to test an old mashine by overloading it to the extreme?
I have traditionally found my maxiumum heart rate by going as fast as I
could up a long steep hill and then doing a sprint at the top.
To be frank, I'm getting a little older and more careful every year and I'm
beginning to speculate, if this extreme overloading might one day be just
one sprint too much for an old man, and thus be the end of my race.
Last time I did the extreme overload test, was a year and a half ago, and I
reached a heart rate of 192 - which is statistically high (not good nor bad,
just high) for a man of 56 summers. I use the figure to calculate my
training zones to feed my HR-monitor.
But max heart rates are supposed to be dropping with age, and I am curious
of what my max HR will be this year.
Today I finished my two hour ride on the the icy roads with a hill sprint,
and the HR went up to 185. This was close to max, I could feel. But actually
I was afraid to go further.
Is this a wise precaution or an unnecesary anxiety to refarin from the
ultimate overloading at age 56?
Is there a more gentle method to establish your personal HR training zones?
Kindly
Ivar of Denmark
me, if it is safe to test an old mashine by overloading it to the extreme?
I have traditionally found my maxiumum heart rate by going as fast as I
could up a long steep hill and then doing a sprint at the top.
To be frank, I'm getting a little older and more careful every year and I'm
beginning to speculate, if this extreme overloading might one day be just
one sprint too much for an old man, and thus be the end of my race.
Last time I did the extreme overload test, was a year and a half ago, and I
reached a heart rate of 192 - which is statistically high (not good nor bad,
just high) for a man of 56 summers. I use the figure to calculate my
training zones to feed my HR-monitor.
But max heart rates are supposed to be dropping with age, and I am curious
of what my max HR will be this year.
Today I finished my two hour ride on the the icy roads with a hill sprint,
and the HR went up to 185. This was close to max, I could feel. But actually
I was afraid to go further.
Is this a wise precaution or an unnecesary anxiety to refarin from the
ultimate overloading at age 56?
Is there a more gentle method to establish your personal HR training zones?
Kindly
Ivar of Denmark