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How to Find Your Max Heart Rate and Train Smarter

Plus, how to find your training zones so you can meet your workout goals.

by Laura Williams Bustos, M.S.

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What to Know About Average Running Heart Rate

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What Is Heart Rate Variability?

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All About the MAF Method

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All About Heart Rate Training

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How to Find Your Max Heart Rate

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What Does a High Resting Heart Rate Mean?

By Jenessa Connor

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What Is Cardiac Drift?

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Is Your Wrist-Worn Heart Rate Monitor Accurate?

By Emilia Benton

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Is My Resting Heart Rate Too Low?

by Emily Abbate

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Is Your ‘Normal’ Resting Heart Rate a Health Risk?

By Elizabeth Millard

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Pay Attention to Your Resting Heart Rate

by Susan Paul and Jordan Smith

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What Should Your Normal Resting Heart Rate Really Be?

by Emily Shiffer

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How an Apple Watch Saved This Man From a Life-Threatening Blood Clot

by Alisa Hrustic

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5 Max Heartrate Training Myths, Busted

by A.C. Shilton

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Should You Run More or Run Faster?

by alex hutchinson

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Exercising While on Beta Blockers

by William O. Roberts, MD

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How to Treat Warm Up Angina

by William O. Roberts, MD

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How Do I Know if I'm Recovered After a Workout?

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Tracking Fitness With the "Heart Rate-Running Speed Index"

by alex hutchinson

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Ask the Coaches: How Can I Lower My Heart Rate?

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Morning Heart Rate and "Functional" Overtraining

by alex hutchinson

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How Many Heart Beats Do We Get?

by alex hutchinson

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How Do I Train Based on Heart Rate?

by Jenny Hadfield

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My Heart Rate Climbs Very High On Runs

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Target Heart Rate and Interval Training

by William O. Roberts, MD

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Ask the Doctor: Is A High Heart Rate Common Post-Marathon?

by Cathy Fieseler

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Heart Rate Changes in Exercise

by William O. Roberts, MD

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Ask the Coaches: When Targeting A HR Zone in a Workout, How Much of the Interval Needs to be in that Zone?

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March Madness Questions: Compression Socks, Muscle Cramps, and Heart Rate Training (oh my!)

by Jenny Hadfield