How fit are you?

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I'm very unfit at the moment.

I bought a new stationary exercise on Friday. Its pulse meter measures my pulse at 75!!! when I start. I'm not doubting its accuracy. I'm just pointing outhow unift I am. In high school (16 years ago) my heart rate was in the fourties. And my recovery to a low rate was very quick.

But then I weighed 70kg. Now I weigh 85kg. :( ...

Point is, I have a new exercise bike and I intend to use it. When summer comes I want to have dropped 10kg.

Watch this space.
 
The bike is a bottom of the range Trojan Shape 210. But my legs aren't overly strong so it will suit me fine.
 
In recent weeks have been jogging, and doing various other exercises as the mood takes me.

When I started jogging, I thought I was going to die, but it's more comfortable now.

Dropped from 92-81, aiming for under 80.
 
Fitter than most souls walking around but it could be much better.
 
Why put so much effort into something that doesn't even take you anywhere? When summer comes get a bike and get outdoors! Good luck, self motivation can be hard.....
 
Let us know how it goes with home gyms. I don't have much luck with home exercise. Unless I am actually a paying member of the gym and I have a good way to fit it into my schedule it tends to fall by the wayside. I'm fairly fit now, could do still to lose a bit around the stomach but my overall health is great. The new job has a gym facility which I go to 3 times a week in the mornings before starting work and it's paying off.
 
I am probably not fit at all, BUT I do gym, and do olympic exercises, can't say I have weight problems though :P
 
chrissy said:
Why put so much effort into something that doesn't even take you anywhere? When summer comes get a bike and get outdoors! Good luck, self motivation can be hard.....
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I do have a mountain bike. Avalanche reflex, on which I spent R700 recently. I installed a new gear cluster at the back, new dual-purpose tires and new horn-handle bars. It was my father's who hasn't used it that much so it's still in pristrine condition.

But it's winter now and riding after work isn't enjoyable whatever the weather.
 
Picard said:
Its pulse meter measures my pulse at 75!!! when I start. I'm not doubting its accuracy. I'm just pointing outhow unift I am.
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75 is resting heart rate, so yeah either the machine is broken or you're doing it wrong.
 
Picard said:
I don't understand what you mean. 75bpm is damn high in a restful state. Compared to what I was and can be (45bpm).
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The resting heart rate (HRrest) is a person's heart rate when they are at rest, that is lying down but awake, and not having recently exerted themselves. The typical resting heart rate in adults is 60-90 bpm,[2]with rates below 60 bpm referred to as bradycardia, and rates above 100 bpm referred to as tachycardia. Conditioned athletes often have resting heart rates below 60 bpm, with values of below 40 bpm not unheard of. For instance, the cyclist Miguel Indurain had a resting heart rate of 28 bpm.[3] The low pulse in conditioned athletes is due to the increased efficiency of the heart as a pump coupled with more effective vascular networks among peripheral muscle beds. Hypertrophy, which is enlargement and thickening of cardiac muscle tissue can also account for a lower heart rate, therefore enabling a higher volume of blood being pumped at each beat (i.e. higher stroke volume).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_rate
 
I don't see much wrong with 75bpm either, i've always felt using your resting HR as a measure of fitness was a little misleading.

If you want to really test your fitness , get it up to 160bpm and see how long it takes to get back down to say 100bpm . That is how you measure fitness ;) . I'm sure there is an exact scientific way to do this, but that is how i noticed my fitness, when i am fit my heart rate drops to resting very quickly (so i can push myself much sooner and for longer)

I mean isn't it ultimately about how fast you can recover? If you run a marathon, your cardio is ultimately about that ability to keep your heart rate below that threshold where everything just turns to acid, and well if you're unfit you usually get to that heart rate much faster and you usually can't get out of it fast either.
 
copacetic said:
Just took my heart rate, it's 70/m.
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Like I said. My restful heart rate was once in the fourties. Now it isn't, hence this thread. I assume because my weight. I know of Indurain's fitness level and have known about it since he was practising.

75bpm is not normal for me. It's way too high.

75bpm is a seconds after a restful state. I know when and how to measure my heart rate.
 
I just checked my stats.

2012-05-08 (not on any type of meds here)
Blood pressure Sys: 131
Blood Pressure Dia: 70
Pulse / min: 52

2012-06-24 (on meds here, I kinda expected these stats)
Blood pressure Sys: 138
Blood Pressure Dia: 79
Pulse / min: 62

I will admit, both times I took the stats myself, where I tried to sit comfortably still for 10 minutes before taking the reading. Taken both times on my left arm. My arms are nearly at the limit of this reader, ie. currently on 31.5cm, and mine is meant for only up to 32cm, so will have to buy a new one if I keep on putting on size.
 
Fit enough, but I don't train for fitness, I train to look good naked, or on the beach. Not at once ;)
 
not as fit as i want to be. also have a stationary bicycle that is being used as a clothes horse at the moment. :(
 
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