Subject: | Re: Maximum Heart Rate - Actual vs Calculated
| Date: | Wed, 20 Jul 2005 18:50:11 -0700
| From: | Chris Neary <diabloridr@comcast.net >
| Newsgroups: | misc.fitness.misc,rec.bicycles.misc,rec.running,rec.sport.skating.racing,rec.sport.triathlon
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>Have you noticed the OLN commentators talking about heart rates during
>the tour de france? Totally meaningless number without knowing what
>their VO2 max or maximum heart rates are. My guess is that the athletes
>don't want to divulge that information and have it broadcasted.
>Especially during a live broadcast.
If you look at the onscreen graphics, the heart rate data for the rider
includes maximum heart rate.
I don't know where OLN gets that info from.
Chris Neary
diabloridr@comcast.net
"Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could
you ask of life? Bicycling combined all the elements I
loved" - Adapted from a quotation by Charles Lindbergh
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