Finding your Target Heart Rate

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Finding your Target Heart Rate

• Chad Nemecek
• EDT 660

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Todays Standards Covered

• California State Standard Grade Six
• Standard ThreeAssess and maintain a level of
  physical fitness to improve health and
  performance
• Substandard 3.6 Monitor heart rate intensity
  during physical intensity
• Standard 4 Demonstrate Knowledge of physical
  fitness concepts, principles, and strategies to
  improve health and performance
• Substandard 4.5 Explain methods of monitoring
  heart rate intensity

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What is my Target heart Rate?

• Your target heart rate is a range of how many
  beats per minute your heart is beating that you
  try to get to and then stay in for a certain
  amount of time. This range is targeted so that
  your body is getting enough of a workout to get
  stronger, but without overdoing it.

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What does working out in my Target Heart Rate
zone do for me?

• It works your heart harder than normal daily use
  so it can become stronger. (Remember your heart
  is a muscle that needs to be worked out
  regularly.)
• It helps your body to burn fat and raise your
  metabolism

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How Do I Find My Target Heart Rate?

• You have to know a few things
• One, how old you are.
• Two, how to subtract
• Three, how to multiply.
• And four, how to use a calculator or the internet
  . These will help you with two and three, but are
  not much help with one.

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First you have to know

• Your Age
• Ask yourself, How old am I ?
• If you have a problem with this question, see
  your doctor before beginning exercise

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Subtract your age from the number 220

• 220
• -____ (My age)
• _____ Answer one

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Now take Answer one

• And multiply it by .6
• Answer one____
• X .6
• _______
• ___________Answer two
• Keep answer two handy.

Oops, I forgot answer one
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Now take Answer one again

• And multiply it by .85
• Answer one____
• X .85
• _______
• ___________Answer three
• Keep answer three handy.

Oops, I forgot Answer one, Again
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Now take Answer two and Answer three

• And put them in to this statement.
• My target heart rate is in between
• ______(Answer two) and
• _____(Answer three).

Oops, I forgot Answer two
Oops, I forgot Answer three
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Now that I know my Target Heart Rate Zone what
do I do with this Information?

• Take your pulse for six seconds using the
  pulmonary artery in your wrist or the carotid
  artery in your neck and multiply by ten to find
  out your current heart rate.
• Now lets practice.
• Find your pulse, and to begin click on the
  mouse

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6 Stop
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1 GO
Recheck during exercise to make sure you are in
your target zone. You are supposed to be in the
zone for twenty minutes each day
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Extra information for you overachievers

• To quickly find someones target heart rate zone
  click on the following link
• http//exercise.about.com/cs/fitnesstools/l/bl_TH
  R.htm

OR
for extra credit, do the following heart rate
lab with a partner and bring in your
results http//www.ekcsk12.org/science/lelab/pulse
ratelab.html
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Ending Credits

• Power point by Chad Nemecek
• Slide Layout by Chad Nemecek
• Illustration choices by Chad Nemecek
• Sound choices by Chad Nemecek

What are you waiting for
SERIOUSLY, GO EXERCISE, YOURE DONE HERE!!
THE END!!!