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Summary: Reaching your target heart rate with exercise is a great way to stay healthy and lower high blood pressure. Learn how to exercise in order to hit your target heart rate with tips from a doctor in this free health video.
Dr. Robin Terranella has learned the value of integrative medical services and wants to pass that effectiveness on to his patients. In his medical training at Bastyr University, Dr....read more
"Hi, I'm Dr. Terranella. In this part of the video, we're going to be talking about taking the patient to the target heart rate. As we said earlier; the way that we calculate that intensity is 220 minus the age, minus the resting heart rate, and then you multiply your intensity. If you want 60% of the heart rate, or 70% of the heart rate; .6, or .7. Then you add that on to your resting heart rate, and we already showed that calculation. Bob's going to need to jog to get up to his target heart rate. Some people won't have to actually jog to get to their target heart rate. His target heart rate is 126. Once he reaches that 126 level, then he will maintain that for the duration of his cardiovascular workout; about twenty or thirty minutes. We're now at his target heart rate, so he would maintain that for the duration, and as we saw with the calculation, you use the 220 minus his age, minus his resting heart rate, and then multiply that by whatever intensity you want; 60 or 70%, and then you add his resting heart rate back on to that, and we get 126 for Bob."
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