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MAX HR and Heat !

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  1. I was just going over some of my old training sessions, and I found some interesting ones.

    I did a study for a university when I was a little younger, my MAX HR was tested as 195 using a ramp test on a kingcycle.

    The actual study was for a sports drink and how temperature affected its performance at different solution strengths... or something like that.

    Anyway, we had to do 3 or 4 sessions for 1 hour @ Max Pace in a heat chamber.
    I rode one of the sessions in 30'C heat so it was pretty warm.

    Now here is the interesting bit:

    I rode this TT @ about 185bpm to start with but by the end my HR was > 200, I rode the last 5 minutes @ 206avarage which is 11 over my max!

    Interesting that cardiac drift seemed to allow me to exceed my maximum :eek:

    Any of the guys here know why this is?

    Anyway... I can post the file at some point.
    Chris

  2. Sounds like you have a new maximum! Toss out the old one and bump up your training zones accordingly.

    I've noticed when the temps & humidity are high, my AvgHR is about 10 beats per minute higher than usual for a given level of effort or average speed. The body is working overtime to cool down. This makes it easier if you're like me and train by heart rate but it sucks if you train by watts or speed.

  3. Your heart can't beat faster than your Max BPM. If it does, then you were wrong about your Max BPM, and you now have the correct max.

  4. WINGNUTT said:

    Your heart can't beat faster than your Max BPM. If it does, then you were wrong about your Max BPM, and you now have the correct max.

    Its a good point, but Ive never been able to hit these kind of values in a Kingcycle test or training. I just wondered if it was a physical effect of the heat and therefore nullif oied the Max value i hit.

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