Heart Rate Monitor – first results
It came today. Nice, red pepper Polar RS200 heart rate monitor. I have to admit that I was very curious waiting for it to see how my “usual” workout will turn out to be. The monitor itself is very intuitive and easy to use – it took me less than 5 minutes to have everything set up. Then I buckled up the wrist transmitter and started to walk.
Results were worse than bad. It turned out that after 15 minutes of walk my heart rate was constantly above 70%. Even more – 30 sec. fast walk (over 3 mph) elevates this level to well above 90%. Then at the end of the exercise 5 minutes very slow walk gave me only 72%.
Looks like we have very big problem here. There is literally long way to go before I will be able to say I’m fit.
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