Heart Rate & Exercise Intensity Page 2

Measurement of Heart Rate during Exercise:

1. Manually: using your second and third fingers and feeling your pulse at the radial or carotid arteries, starting with

number Zero, count the number of beats you feel for 6 or 10 seconds.

Heart Rate Monitor: Transmitter strapped around your chest transmits heart rate to a receiver on your wrist.

Rate of Perceived Exertion: (RPE) subjectively rating how you feel based on a scale from 1-10 (or 3-20). 1 being

easy, 10 being hard. If using 3-20

Talk Test: if you can still carry on a conversation with some heavy breathing between words, you are probably in

the mid to upper range of your training heart rate zone.

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