Heart Rate And Exercise
OBJECTIVE
- This lesson will enable the student to understand the relationship between heart rate and exercise. The student will also be able to calculate target heart rates.
TASKS
- Read the articles "Heart Rate Exercise Basics" and "Target Heart Rates" to learn about the connection between heart rate and exercise.
- Look at the "Heart Rate Training Chart" to become familiar with the different target heart rate zones.
- Read the article "Training With 5 Exercise Heart Rate Training Zones" for specific information about the heart rate training zones.
- Watch the "How to Calculate Heart Rate Zones" video below for a simplistic way to calculate heart rate zones without numbers.
- Complete the Worksheet: Finding Your Target Heart Rate.
- Use what you learned on the Finding Your Target Heart Rate worksheet to calculate the appropriate target heart rate for people in the Scenarios below.
- Complete the experiment "How Does Your Heart Rate?".
How to Calculate Heart Rate Zones
Worksheet: Finding your Target Heart Rate
| finding_your_target_heart_rate.jpg |
Target Heart Rate Scenarios
| target_heart_rate_scenarios.ppt |
Experiment: How Does Your Heart Rate?
| how_does_your_heart_rate_worksheet.doc |
