Got up and went to the gym today. Met with my trainer and went through the preliminaries to see where my body is at. You find out your target heartrate you subtract your age from 220-34= 186. So the goal is to reach 65% to 85% of this target heartrate when you work out in order to make improvements. For someone my age it would be 121-158 beats per minute. When I did my workout I got up to 155 .
She said something about having your heartrate go down so many beats within so many minutes of stopping exercise indicating that you are getting a good stroke volume in your heart. I did this almost to a T. It would still be good to know exactly why this is signficant.
I'm glad to be taking charge of this part of my life. Hopefully it will help to calm me down and handle stresses easier. There is so much going on with my life - husband, mother, work, housemate, money, vehicle - that it is very much needed for balance.
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