What Is My Max Heart Rate?

Struggling to find your maximum heart rate (MHR)? Age-related formulas can make it tricky as they can often be inaccurate. Today, we're putting the most common max heart rate calculations to the test with a group of willing volunteers from our GTN headquarters! How accurate are these calculations? How good are we at predicting our own max heart rates? And what level of effort does it really take to find your max heart rate? Join us to find out!

What is max heart rate? 0:00
Why care about max heart rate? 0:26
How to calculate your max heart rate 1:00
Physically testing to find your MHR 2:41
Testing begins! 5:32
The results! 6:33
Conclusion 10:31

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