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    Track Your EVOlution With EVO With This Maximum Pulse Test

    3rd October 2018
    Maximum pulse test - Maximalpulstest - test d'impulsion maximum - EVO Fitness

    Maximum pulse is a pretty tough test that requires you to work as hard as you can for a short period. You must push yourself, so you force the heart to beat as many times as possible, increasing your cardio. To do this, you should complete the test by running, optionally walking or jogging if you are not in running order yet. This test should be done if you are going to use a pulse as an indicator of exercise intensity.

     

    On a treadmill

    Set the treadmill. If you’re a regular gym goer, one per cent increase if you usually run on the treadmill and up to five per cent if you are used to training and running on a treadmill. Warm up for 10-15 minutes and insert short sequences where you run very fast for 10-20 seconds before you pause. The warm-up should finish at a rate where you feel you’ve worked quite hard, but are still relaxed (without being stiff).

    Go directly to the test (without taking a break after warm-up) by increasing the speed approximately every minute until you reach your limit. The amount of speed increase will depend on your physical form and expected final speed. Usually, 1-2 km / h will be an appropriate speed boost every minute. Ideally, the actual test (after complete your warming up) lasts from four to six minutes, i.e. four to six-speed increases in total.

    Register the pulse at the end of every minute, so you get a measure at every speed. If you have a fitness tracker bracelet that can sync with the treadmill, you’ll get on-going analysis on the device’s display so you can track the pulse throughout the test. The test ends when you no longer manage to keep the pace and must interrupt, and you see that the pulse stabilises itself if you increase the speed.

     

    Assessment of test results

    The body is in permanent change. Therefore, there is no such thing as “good” and “bad” maximum pulse, so it is no better to have 210 in the pulse rate than to have 185. Admittedly, there are indications that the pulse rate can be reduced (not increased) as time goes by. This has been observed in people who have worked their way from bad to overall good physical level.

    Be aware that this is a pulse measurement related to running. The interval you achieve here is undoubtedly higher than the one you want to accomplish in other forms of training. Therefore, you should not use the “running pulse” as a basis for calculating other exercises like, for example, biking. If other forms of activity form an essential part of the training, you should calculate the pulse rate for these too.

     

    What information can you get from this test?

    Your maximum heart rate is the number of beats the heart is capable of when you work as hard as you can. The max pulse value is used to calculate and control your exercise intensity. The body’s response to exercise is limited, so unless you have just started training it is not necessary to test it often. As long as you maintain an overall good shape and a relatively stable body weight, you can check the pulse changes from year to year.

     

    Test Frequency

    Test it once a year. If you have recently started training, you can test every three months until you see that the pulse stabilises.

    Suitable for: Everyone

    Don’t miss out on the 5 rules to make sure your test is completely trustworthy – here.

    Find other tests you can try to keep your performance in check – here.

     

    Test developed by Personal Trainer Halvor Lauvstad
    Halvor studied at NIH and has been a product manager at SATS and general manager of Norsk Fitness. He has written a series of books about training, including “Best in Birken”. Currently, he is lecturing for AFPT in Norway.

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