Wierd but True
At the Fitness Center, the treadmills that they have, have heartrate monitors. It’s always fun to see what my heartrate is like after my runs. Now, there’s a chart on it for how high your heartrate should be depending on what age you are. For people around 20 60% I believe is 120bmp, and 100% should be 200bpm. Now, after running my normal 2 miles, I grabbed the sensor to find that my heartrate was 77bpm. Now, I’m thinking to myself, this seems a wee bit low, so I let go of it, wait a few seconds, then grab it again. 81bpm. Obviously I have a busted machine, so I brush it off and go lift.
After lifting, I come back to the same machine and walk a little to cool off. I grab the heart rate monitor as soon as I jump on though. 110bpm. It’s quite scarey that lifting accelerates my heart that much more than running for 2 miles. Now, it’s not that I’m not working while I’m running, by the time I’m done I’m sweating. It just seemed very weird last night…
March 25th, 2004 - 14:46
Those heartrate monitors suck. Sometimes they tell me that my heart is ~40 BPM. The easiest way I’ve found to check my heart is to feel my the artery in my neck and count how many beats I feel in six seconds (using the timer on the treadmill to count seconds). Multiply that number by ten (60 / 6 = 10) and you’re fairly close.
March 26th, 2004 - 14:28
I know when Travis and I were there, we discovered that holding them too tight messed up the rating. I was just resting my hands around the grip and the machine was giving a good accurate reading.
I need to get my Nike heartrate monitor watch fixed. The transmitter has a dead battery.