Okay, okay, I'm tired of arguing weight with Aquageek and company...and Centaur brought up a very neat idea.
So answer me this, if you're so inclined to: What's your resting heartrate? There are a few who say theirs is below 55, and some who say it's right around 60.
To try and get a slightly less askew measurement, try taking it while you're sitting right here, reading this. Hopefully, you're on the computer during the day, either at work (shame on you for being on the boards at work!) or at home (I won't question that), or somewhere, and you sit down for a few minutes at least. Take your heartrate, and answer the poll, and we'll see what we come up with.
I'd start by telling you mine, but I had an asthma attack this morning, and as a result, my resting heart rate is higher, around 68 bpm's. Typically, it's 54. Stupid asthma. Makes me feel like I've been hit by a truck. :(
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Many moons ago I was lucky enough to spend two intense weeks at the Olympic Development Training Camp in Squaw Valley (before Colorado Springs); we had a physiologist assigned to us, I guess it was the early days of the sports medicine and bio-revolution, I figure they were starting a comprehensive data collection routine.
Anyway, he used to run around during workouts grabbing our throats during the rest intervals. He used a special wrist watch to time his counts. It was hilarious to pop up for a shortr interval and have him come up from behind and try and grab you.
As part of his regime, during every morning workout we'd stop after one hour, climb out for 5 minutes and drink orange juice and eat a pastry. We thought this was the lap of luxury, but he explained this was to see if it helped or hurt our energy output and HR in the second hour, assuming we could digest it fast enough. It wasn't always so great within the main series, in terms of digestion.....
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Many moons ago I was lucky enough to spend two intense weeks at the Olympic Development Training Camp in Squaw Valley (before Colorado Springs); we had a physiologist assigned to us, I guess it was the early days of the sports medicine and bio-revolution, I figure they were starting a comprehensive data collection routine.
Anyway, he used to run around during workouts grabbing our throats during the rest intervals. He used a special wrist watch to time his counts. It was hilarious to pop up for a shortr interval and have him come up from behind and try and grab you.
As part of his regime, during every morning workout we'd stop after one hour, climb out for 5 minutes and drink orange juice and eat a pastry. We thought this was the lap of luxury, but he explained this was to see if it helped or hurt our energy output and HR in the second hour, assuming we could digest it fast enough. It wasn't always so great within the main series, in terms of digestion.....
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