How to determine maximum heartrate and anaerobic threshold level?
I thought there was alot of controversy regarding cancer and cancer treatments and cancer fighting foods. There seems to be just as much controversy regarding a person’s maximum heart rate and anaerobic threshold and lactate threshold. I was under the impression that a person’s maximum heart rate decreased with age, hence one rule of thumb formula: Maximum heartrate = 220 – person’s age Now I am reading that a person’s maximum heart rate does not decline with age (with the exception of sedentary individuals), tends to be higher in women than men, does not predict better or worse athletic performance, and cannot be accurately predicted by any mathematic formula. I am coming across more and more accounts from athletes in their fifties and sixties, who have regularly tested and recorded unchanging or slightly declining (just a few heart beats per minute) Max HR throughout their lives: Arguably the ultimate study on VO2max and ageing was performed by (and on) the legendary exercise physiol
