How to Determine Resting Heart Rate and Cardio Fitness

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"How to determine your resting heart rate is your heart rate when you're not exercising. So when you're at rest, you're sitting, watching television, this is a great time to take your measurement of your heart rate. Once you have that, then, when I go to the gym, and I start to exercise, I am going to take 140, I'm going to minus my age, and I'm going to add 20, and that's my target heart rate. So I can see the difference between rest and my maximum potential full bore burning body fat heart rate. An average usual heart rate for individuals ranges from between 60 to 100 beats per minute. If you are at at your target rate, you relax, you do some stretches, and you take your heart rate, if it is lower or higher than the 60 to 100, you do want to make sure that you see a physician. A great way to take your pulse is right at your wrist with your two fingers, or right in your neck. What you're going to do is you're going to count to 10 however many beats in that count of 10, you times by six. So, say mine was 10 times, times six, 60; I'm right in that normal range."