I decided to get serious and get a personal trainer. I start training tomorrow and I'm super nervous. I am going to start a blog that focuses sloely on my training progress and the tricks I learn. I met with my new trainer last week and he explained a few things to me about weight loss. 50-70% of weight loss is diet. And there is something called a "target heart rate". When your heart is beating within your target rate you are burning fat. If you go above that rate you are just burning off sugar and other simple nutrients. He said that it's good to get your heart rate up above the target rate but if you want to burn fat you need to stay within your target heart rate range. How you figure it out is you subtract your age from 220 which is the maximum beats per minute your heart could beat when you were a newborn. The number you get give you your current maximum heart beat. Then you multiply that number by 60% and that is the low end of your target heart rate. My range is from 116-136 BPM. I'm not sure how he calculated the high range of my target heart rate... probably just added 20 to the low number. But I thought that was interesting information. Stay tuned for before and after pictures!
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Good luck and good for you! I need to follow your example.
BTW- I got your blog invite and I clicked on it once and went back a few minutes later to save the link and comment and it won't let me back on. Can you send me the invite again so I can keep up with you? :)
Maybe I did this wrong, but it shows my low end to be 74.4.
My resting heart rate is over 100. What did I do wrong?
I'm 34.
Whoops! Sorry Mary. You multiply the answer you get subtracting your age from 220 by 60% and that's your low end target heart rate. This is why I don't teach math.
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