How often do you push beyond 90% of max Heart Rate?

How often do you push beyond 90% of max HR?

  • Never

    Votes: 9 16.1%
  • Once a month

    Votes: 1 1.8%
  • Once a week

    Votes: 7 12.5%
  • Twice a week

    Votes: 3 5.4%
  • Three times a week

    Votes: 9 16.1%
  • No idea, don’t measure HR during exercise or don’t know max

    Votes: 13 23.2%
  • Every ride

    Votes: 14 25.0%

  • Total voters
    56
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FrothNinja

Veteran
I've put 3 but its quite variable. I'm still carrying around nearly 2 stone of excess lard and I've never found out what my max is so I let Garmin do the figures based on the info I provided. According to that I spend around 25% (again a very rough estimate) of my ride time in the red zone (160+bpm). Not sure what it all means though ^_^
 

yello

Guest
I knew my theoretical max, and I could ping my heart rate up towards it easily and used to do so pretty much every ride - not constantly but at some point or another on the ride. How that theoretical max equated to my actual max though I don't know. I never felt ill or that I was overdoing it.

I'll have a look over my x years of ride logs and come up with an average, it'd be quite interesting for me to know.
 
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