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…