How Does Exercise Affect Your Heart?
By Erica L. Robinson
When performing cardio, blood flow is directed toward working muscles and away from areas that aren't doing much (such as your arms during running, or the digestive tract).
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Ever ask yourself, "how do I find my target heart rate?" Finding your target heart rate is easy with our target heart rate calculator. Target heart rate calculation can be determined for any age and activity level, enabling you to use a heart rate monitor and get the most benefit from your workouts.
More about Heart Rate and Health
Knowing your target heart rate is an essential tool to monitoring your fitness goals. Learn how to understand your heart rate and which level you should be aiming for.
4 Yoga Poses for a Healthy Heart
By Laura Waite
According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention), about 600,000 people die from heart disease in the United States every year.
How to Create a Heart Rate Training Program
By Jason Karp
The first article in this series, Should You Train According to Heart Rate?, explained that heart rate training can be an ideal tool for runners to use because it's predictable.
Training Zones Explained
By Michael Ricci
Heart rate training can be confusing due to all the terminology used and the many opinions on how to determine your threshold zone.
Fitness Tips: Measuring Your Target Heart Rate
By Susan Grant Legacki
Here's some good news for all those hopelessly time-crunched individuals out there: it's not the amount of minutes you spend exercising that matters, it's your heart rate.
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