Max heart rate while exercising

[Boharford]

Exercising after having 3 stents - no HA. Any idea what the max heart rate should be during a session of exercise?

[Shoshov]

your cardio rehab team will be able to work that out for you. everyone is different

[MichaelJH Heart Star in reply to Shoshov]

Totally agree! In working out the maximum they take into account your age, resting heart rate, current fitness and medication (e.g. beta blocker means reducing the maximum). Mine came out at 110bpm, which was rather lower than Dr Google would suggest!

[SpiritoftheFloyd]

If you're fit and well and have no medical issues, (which excludes the vast majority of us on here!) the formula for the max heart rate while exercising is 220 less your age.

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Hi I was just looking at the topics here

Can I ask your experience .

I had 2 stents in one artery

and one to come

There is a huge improvement in the walking they say don't expect 100 per cent I think on a slight gradient get phantom symptoms but slight then good is that normal

and I'm not sure how much exercise

To do as had sold ha.

Thanks

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Meant silent ha

[COYW]

Two stents three months ago no HA. I’m back training on my bike and tbh im just going by how I feel. I watch my heart rate on my garmin and even when pushing up a hill I don’t go much about 130. The MHR formula would put me at about 158 but that formula doesn’t take account of fit old blokes who have been cycling for 40 years. Tbh I don’t think docs know what to say to me other than don’t over do it 😂

[Clerkenweller]

Heart rate whilst exercising varies wildly according to age and other personal variables. I’m 70 had mild HA and 1 stent in November. Good underlying health, quite fit, slightly overweight and 120bpm is right for me.

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In my amateur opinion, from what I have read and been told, I think it all depends on the condition of your heart and what meds you are on. You may have been given beta blockers, if so you can forget trying to get back to previous levels of exercise, it will be like towing a bag of bricks behind you. I would ask your Doc if you REALLY need to be on them, and ditch them if possible, they just put them on the blanket prescription. What were the results of your ECHO? I am 10 months in from the same as you and ditched my HR monitor ages ago, I just go with how I feel like someone else said. For people who have and still exercise regularly I think we are in unknown territory! I am off to do the park run in a but and will just run like the devil's behind me, but my ECHO was as good if not better than anyone else at 61 so now my pipes have been re-bored I can't see why it should be a problem.

[Boharford]

Thanks for all you replies - Had a session of rehab but the physio didn't seem to think it was an issued was quite vague. The cardiac nurse is at the next session Ill try her.

[Alison_L in reply to Boharford]

The physios should be able to tell you your maximal heart rate better than your nurse. Pester them for more information! My rehab physios are constantly trying to get info from my cardiologists about how intensely I can exercise, but unfortunately, 2 NHS trusts are involved and they are incapable of speaking to each other! Good luck xx

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MichaelJH is absolutely right - No one here can make that judgement other than your specialist, the rehab exercise team or your doctor. Your age, your build, your fitness level, your meds and also your personality will dictate what the range will be. I can say that after a few higher heart rate readings I asked my doctor what my resting HR should be (I know that is not your question) and she told me her assessment for my resting HR is 150/70 which I can say I have never exceeded. The ONLY point I totally disagree with Michael is the use of Google. I (personally) would not even ask Google for the time of day for once you go onto Google, your computer identity is notarised and then they begin to amass as much details about you as possible, including email, name, preferences and a record of sites visited - has no one noticed that once you visit Google your junk mail starts to increase from the United States. That is purely because the US has different privacy rules and have no need to even take not of ours - after all, we hear they will not even pay taxes in the UK...............................................So, for information on any health issue, unless it begins with NHS I NEVER use it since there are too many money motivated sites out there, even some that require a basic registration, which is just a fishing trip for details.

Without a shadow of a doubt, almost all the bad, fraudulent, misleading or down right rude reason for them relates to the unintentional disclosure of information - even if you have security software which does not protect from naivety.

[santisuk]

I was given the guideline of '30 above your normal resting rate' by the cardio rehab doctor when i finished my stint in hospital for a triple bypass recently, but that may only be relevant to a still-recovering self-rehab program

[Boharford in reply to santisuk]

That would make mine 70 bpm as my resting is around 40bpm

[fergusthegreat]

I am not a doctor and I was not offered cardiac rehab but I do have a stent.

I did a bit of research and found a couple of studies that found doing high intensity interval training to max heart rate aided stent healing and recovery so that's what I did.

Obviously depends on the condition of your heart

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There's an app for that 😁