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How to Find Your Max Heart Rate and Train Smarter

Plus, how to find your training zones so you can meet your workout goals.

by Laura Williams Bustos, M.S.

Aug 26, 2025

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What to Know About Average Running Heart Rate

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What Is Heart Rate Variability?

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All About the MAF Method

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All About Heart Rate Training

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How to Find Your Max Heart Rate

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What Does a High Resting Heart Rate Mean?

By Jenessa Connor

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What Is Cardiac Drift?

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Is Your Wrist-Worn Heart Rate Monitor Accurate?

By Emilia Benton

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Is My Resting Heart Rate Too Low?

by Emily Abbate

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Is Your ‘Normal’ Resting Heart Rate a Health Risk?

By Elizabeth Millard

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Pay Attention to Your Resting Heart Rate

by Susan Paul and Jordan Smith

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What Should Your Normal Resting Heart Rate Really Be?

by Emily Shiffer

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How an Apple Watch Saved This Man From a Life-Threatening Blood Clot

by Alisa Hrustic

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5 Max Heartrate Training Myths, Busted

by A.C. Shilton

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Should You Run More or Run Faster?

by alex hutchinson

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Exercising While on Beta Blockers

by William O. Roberts, MD

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How to Treat Warm Up Angina

by William O. Roberts, MD

Aug 26, 2025

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How Do I Know if I'm Recovered After a Workout?

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Tracking Fitness With the "Heart Rate-Running Speed Index"

by alex hutchinson

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Ask the Coaches: How Can I Lower My Heart Rate?

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Morning Heart Rate and "Functional" Overtraining

by alex hutchinson

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How Many Heart Beats Do We Get?

by alex hutchinson

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How Do I Train Based on Heart Rate?

by Jenny Hadfield

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My Heart Rate Climbs Very High On Runs

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Target Heart Rate and Interval Training

by William O. Roberts, MD

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Ask the Doctor: Is A High Heart Rate Common Post-Marathon?

by Cathy Fieseler

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Heart Rate Changes in Exercise

by William O. Roberts, MD

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Ask the Coaches: When Targeting A HR Zone in a Workout, How Much of the Interval Needs to be in that Zone?

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March Madness Questions: Compression Socks, Muscle Cramps, and Heart Rate Training (oh my!)

by Jenny Hadfield