What is your highest maximum heart rate ever?
Stumble it!The most commented post here on Training4cyclists.com so far was my question: What is your lowest heart rate ever? Maximum heart rate is often calculated as 220 minus your age, but there is a standard deviation on about 10 which means that 95% of us would fit into a formula called: 220 minus age +/- 20 beats. Thus, as you’ve already experienced, this formula does not have any practical usability for a serious endurance athlete.
But back to the topic, what is your highest maximum heart rate ever?
I’ve been testing in the morning before I get out of bed and my lowest has been 47. The highest I’ve ever had it go was 240, this might have been a bad reading as I was going 40 mph down a hill, it is a hill I do quite often so it wasn’t scary. I typically spike at 181, but have seen it go to 194 during steep climbs.
My most recent total max hr measured on a monitor during some sort of training or racing activity is 189. I’m a 38yr male so the 220-age formula would give me 182.
Max of 194 this is my running max. My cycling max varies from 184 (unfit) to 194 (fully fit). As a 37yr old male I have a predicted max of 183.
in the mornings i have 45-47 bpm wen im in good shape and my max is 202 even some day i reach 214 in a sprint, im 31 and my predicted max for my age is 189
Recently I took part of my first competition and my heart rate went up to 198, I am 20 years old.
Did a conconi test when I was around 18 years old. It went up to 213. My coach at that time told me it was the highest I have ever meassured… And he have been a coach for the national danish mtb team…
205 bpm in a sprint at the last 100 feet of a marathon.
I have two very different levels in spin class my heart rate tops out at about 187. On the road I am consistantly 10 to 15 beats higher, does anyone know why???
Thanks
Min 41 (when conditioned and unstressed) / lowest ever 37
Max 191 (after a couple of all-out sprints in a group ride on a 4% uphill and VERY WELL conditioned)
Once I saw 204 on my HRM during an intense mountain bike ride (with the goal of hitting my max HR.) Funny thing is, I think I was 16 at the time, meaning that 220 minus you age formula actually had it right!
But other than that day I don’t remember going over 196.
202-203 also during a good condition
I got a 225 on a sprint downhill, im only 14 though
i got mine up to 204 running up a hill with a bag of sand, i knew someone who got it up to 211
Occurred during a “lactate threshhold” swim practice in high school when I was 17. Was 5′11″ and 170 lbs at the time. Did 5 x 200 yard free on 4 minutes, each one at an all-out race pace. Holding 1:46.00 or better throughout the set, my HR was between 215-220 BPM at the end of each.
After number five, the electronics and manual pulse checks both got me at 224 BPM :D. Highest I’ve had with in the last few years on my bike (I’m 23 now) was 202 BPM. I would be scared to even try and hit 220 these days, I’m not in good enough shape to take that kind of punishment anymore :P, plus I’ve grown taller and heavier since!
at 48 i hit 196 on an indoor trainer. now at 53 i am blowing up at 175-180. 169 is good, just 2 higher than the formulae. comfy at 146 for distance and speed.
In a 10 mile time trial my heart rate average is 163ish with a peak of 175bpm. In the finishing sprint of a road race I’ve hit 185bpm.
I’m 62 years of age!
Recently, I wiped out on my bike I had my HR monitor on. After the crash, I was bandaging myself up and thought it would be interesting to see my highest heart rate for the day and it was 232!!
53 years old. According to monitor, hit 222 today playing squash. Previous max was 192 on monitor. Avg was about 160 for 45 minutes. Wondering if 222 is dangerous.
I’m a road cyclist. My highest ever HR was 202, with my “normal” max around 200. While I’ve not formally tested my max in at least a decade, I’ve not found it to have decreased much, if at all in the past dozen years since I started using a monitor. I’m now 51 years old, and still frequently get into the mid and occasionally high 190s on really hard efforts. it seems that even with +- 20 bpm, the age-related formula doesn’t apply well to those who stay fit.
i have only hit 173. this is durring races and self tests. i am an experienced rider and push my self hard. i dont understand why its so low. i am 30 years old. resting hrt 29-38.
Highest in the last 10 years was while pushing my bike thru deep snow in a winter race - 174 bpm while at age 43. Lowest was 37 bpm at age 42. Highest this year (age 48) was 162 bpm, lowest was 45 bpm. I wish my rev limiter was set a bit higher (without a loss in pumping efficiency!).
I wonder how high heart rate gets during a maximum lift. If your body is working anaerobically and you are holding your breath (like many powerlifters do)- I wonder if the heart rate soars unbelievably high — even though it is momentary, it makes me wonder. I have heard of blood vessels blowing out in the eyes during these times. I would imagine worse things could happen.
I have a medically diagnosed enlarged heart, just starting out in racing, i’ve clocked 227 bpm as my highest on a number of occasions, though i’m not sure whether that has ties to my phsiology/heart size
Just like Bob, the highest bpm I’ve recorded with my Timex Data Recorder is 173 bpm. This is at very high intensities. I’m 28, so this formula really is not working for me. I hope there’s nothing wrong with my heart, since most people on this post have much higher peak bpm. Resting heart rate is about 40 bpm. Does anyone have an explanation for this? Am I just at the tail end of the Gaussian curve?