HR... when running

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My HR when I ran a mile on a treadmill recently 7:09... was only 148 when I finished... and within 30 seconds while walking 3 mph it was in the 11x range... then it leveled out in the 80's at a minute and I stoped taking it...

Anyways... I figure I was going about as fast as I could... that being said... my max HR for my age should be about 220-32= 188... when I was 18 I would get it up to 200 when I would take it after a good run...

this got me thinking today... I wonder if my blood pressure meds are like a governer... I wonder if I could get more out of myself if my heart was aloud to beat 180 instead of being capped around 150...

I know I just don't get as winded from excersize as I once did in my younger days... and I'll bet this is why...

anyways I am not sure this is a question... I'm just posting it now because I want to come back to this when I get off the bp meds and answer the question...

If somebody else has stopped taking a beta-blocker I would be interested if it affected their athletic performance...
 
I posted a question about heart rate not too long ago along the same lines as this. Although it didn't have anything to do with blood pressure. My heart rate on my "hard" days of running never gets above 140. My rate at rest is 45. You are at a place where you are more fit, thats obvious, just from your posts. It takes your body more to get shocked and have to work harder than it did before, especially with running. Have you tried doing something completetly new and seeing where that would take your heart rate? Weight lifting, jump rope, stairs etc. The body is amazing and can adapt quickly the more fit it is. Sounds like you are at a good place in training to be asking a question like this! Way to go!
 
on the machines at the gym... riding a bike I really have to pedal like mad to get my HR up over 120... and it takes like 10 minutes of 120 RPM pedaling to do so... if I increase the resistance and pedal at 100 rpm I can get the same effect but eventually my thighs get that burn...

Stairs I can get it up to 125-138 so I like to do those but... the don't rest my achilles which I need on days off of running...

Eliptical... depends how fast I go... if clip along at a 9 min mile pace... (which seams like I am really moving on an eliptical???) I can get it to approach 120... if I add more resistance to simulate hills on and really crank on the arm things I can get it up to 128-135 range...

when I get off the Beta-Blocker I'll be interested to see if I get my HR up higher... when I was in college I remember having a hard time gettting my HR to stay in the "excercise" zone and not going over... now I have the oposite problem... the only time it gets there in the first 5 minutes of excercise is if I run... and then I never get in danger of going over... even if I all out sprint to the point of exhaustion...

looks like my meds put me similar to you... interesting... I think I will start looking at my recover time... pulse at end of my run... pulse 1 minute later during my cool down walk...
 
Wow, what I want to know is what you guys are doing to get your RHR down that low? I understand more fit = lower resting rate, but I played soccer for over 9 years and my RHR never got lower than 65. These days it hangs around 80-90 (higher towards the end of the week when I'm pushing close to overtraining), and spikes as high as 170 on my 3-4 mile slow runs (around 9-10 min/mile). Oh yeah, I'm 30. To be honest with you, I wouldn't worry about it, as I stress a lot about my HR running as high as it does for as little as I put into it (normal range during my runs is 140-170 depending on several things). I'd rather it was low (working less, stressed less) vs. high (pushing closer to exploding). But that's just me.
 
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