| How To Determine Your Heart Rate |
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| by Charles Stuart Platkin | |
| Thursday, 22 February 2007 | |
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In order to take your heart rate while you are exercising, you can either use a heart rate monitor, or go for the “old fashioned way”. You can take your pulse on your neck, your wrist, or your chest. By placing the tips of your index and middle fingers on your wrist, in line with your thumb, you will be able to feel the radial (wrist) pulse. Press lightly, so you can feel the beats beneath your fingertips. Do not use your thumb to take your pulse, as it has a pulse of its own—making it hard to count, and giving you an inaccurate number. If you were to stop exercising to count your heart rate for 60 seconds, your heart rate would fall. Instead, you can take a 10 second pulse and multiple by 6 or a 6 second pulse and multiply by 10 (an easy trick, since you just have to add a zero!). Once you find the pulse, you should start counting the first beat as zero, and continue on up from there using your watch or a clock to keep track of the seconds as you count.
For example, if you counted 14 beats in your 6-second pulse, you would multiply that by 10 to get your 60 second pulse—140 beats per minute. In order to know if that is within the recommended target heart rate range for you, use our Target Heart Rate Calculators. Bookmark:            Trackback(0)
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