If you’ve ever worried about your heart rate during exercise being too high or too low, you’ll want to read this. Your "heart rate zones" might be completely wrong. Not only are zones defined ...

You glance at your heart rate monitor during a tough run and an unusually high number jumps out at you. Should you be excited or concerned?

It's a twee Valentine's card marketing slogan, but the saying 'Listen to your heart' is also useful advice for runners. Here are some Q&As explaining why. With each beat, the heart pumps blood-borne ...

“VO2 max is the best measure of cardiorespiratory fitness,” says Andrew Getzin, MD, head team physician of USA Triathlon and sports medicine physician at Cayuga Health in Ithaca, New York. “To have a ...

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The fat burning heart rate is the rate at which a person’s heart should beat per minute to achieve maximum fat burning results. Charts and calculations can help work out an individual’s likely fat ...

Your Vo2 max is a measure of the maximum amount of oxygen your body can use during exercise. The best way to increase your Vo2 max is to exercise near your maximum heart rate. Vo2 max is a measure of ...

HRV is a relatively new metric that measures variations in your heartbeat. There’s no formal guidance on what an optimal HRV is. Your heart rate variability (HRV) is a measure of the difference ...

If you’ve ever worried about your heart rate during exercise being too high or too low, you’ll want to read this. Your "heart rate zones" might be completely wrong. Not only are zones defined ...