{"id":3688,"date":"2010-07-07T01:01:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T23:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=3688"},"modified":"2015-02-15T09:27:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T14:27:59","slug":"heart-rate-formula-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/heart-rate-formula-women\/","title":{"rendered":"New Heart Rate Formula for Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/circ.ahajournals.org\/content\/122\/2\/130.abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to a recent study<\/a>, the standard heart rate formula, 220 &#8211; age,\u00a0 overestimates the maximum heart rate for women performing cardiovascular exercise.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=http%3A%2F%2Fwell.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2010%2F07%2F05%2Frecalibrated-formula-eases-womens-workouts%2F%3Femc%3Deta1%26_r%3D5&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to the New York Times report<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The commonly used formula subtracts a person\u2019s age from 220. But based on the data collected in the Chicago study, the right formula for calculating a woman\u2019s maximum heart rate is a little more complicated: 206 minus 88 percent of a woman\u2019s age.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;But the new study shows that for women, the number typically derived from the standard formula is far off the mark. Using the old formula of 220 minus age, a 40-year-old woman would achieve an average maximum heart rate of 180 beats per minute. That means her pulse should stay around 153 beats per minute during her workout to achieve a target heart rate of 85 percent.<\/p>\n<p>But based on the new calculation, the same woman\u2019s average maximum heart rate is 171 beats per minute, meaning her desired target heart rate is just 145 beats per minute, 8 beats a minute slower than under the old formula. Although the gap seems small on paper, it can be the difference between an exhilarating workout or a frustrating one that ends in exhaustion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, I rarely keep tabs on my heart rate at all, unless I&#8217;m doing early morning fasted cardio (relatively rare) &#8211; I go by perceived exertion. But for those who do, this could be useful info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent study, the standard heart rate formula, 220 &#8211; age,\u00a0 overestimates the maximum heart rate for women performing cardiovascular exercise.\u00a0 According to the New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,28],"tags":[317,610,1177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9115,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions\/9115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}