{"id":183888,"date":"2010-01-15T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thatsfit.ca\/2010\/01\/15\/want-to-check-your-workout-check-your-heart-rate\/"},"modified":"2010-01-15T02:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T07:45:00","slug":"want-to-check-your-workout-check-your-heart-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/183888","title":{"rendered":"Want to Check Your Workout? Check Your Heart Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/thatsfit.ca\/category\/advice\/\" rel=\"tag\">Advice<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/thatsfit.ca\/category\/fitness\/\" rel=\"tag\">Fitness<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/thatsfit.ca\/category\/ask-a-fitness-expert\/\" rel=\"tag\">Ask a Fitness Expert<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.thatsfit.ca\/media\/2010\/01\/getting-a-good-workout-464.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dear Sarah, <\/p>\n<p> When I am exercising on a cardio machine, I often check my heart rate (usually because I need a distraction) and I&#8217;m wondering if these numbers are accurate. Can you explain what the target heart rate zone is and how I can ensure that I&#8217;m hitting it?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, <br \/>Serena<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Dear Serena, <\/p>\n<p>Training intensity can have a significant impact on the success of your exercise program. One of the best ways to detect exercise intensity is by monitoring your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/tag\/heartrate\/\">heart rate<\/a>. This acts as good marker for the exercise intensity during cardiovascular training. <\/p>\n<p>Cardio machines calculate your heart rate based on the information you provide. This calculation is based on your Heart Rate Max (HR max). The machine&#8217;s calculation can vary in accuracy from machine to machine and person to person. In order to be sure that you are exercising at the appropriate intensity, I recommend ditching the machine calculations and formulating your own. No machine knows your body like you do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thatsfit.ca\/2010\/01\/15\/want-to-check-your-workout-check-your-heart-rate\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Want to Check Your Workout? Check Your Heart Rate<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thatsfit.ca\/2010\/01\/15\/want-to-check-your-workout-check-your-heart-rate\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/thatsfit.ca\/forward\/19315792\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/thatsfit.ca\/2010\/01\/15\/want-to-check-your-workout-check-your-heart-rate\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Advice, Fitness, Ask a Fitness Expert Dear Sarah, When I am exercising on a cardio machine, I often check my heart rate (usually because I need a distraction) and I&#8217;m wondering if these numbers are accurate. Can you explain what the target heart rate zone is and how I can ensure that I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3039,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}