1. Achieving Cardiorespiratory Fitness
Chapter 12
Achieving Cardiorespiratory Fitness

2. Bell Ringer Read Pages 242-249 Be ready to discuss Heart Rate:
What it is?
Why it’s important to know?
How to figure it out?

3. Resting Heart Rate
A measure of the heart rate following a period of inactivity
Find your carotid artery (artery in your neck that is often used to find your pulse)
Start counting beats when I tell you
We will go for 30 seconds and take that number and times it by 2 to find your RHR

4. Maximum Heart Rate The highest heart rate capable by the human body
220 – your age = Maximum Heart Rate

5. 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.

6. Finding your Target Heart Rate Zone
Step 1
220
-____ (My age)
_____ Answer one (Circle this answer – this is your MHR)

7. Finding your Target Heart Rate Zone
Step 2:
Take the circled number and multiply it by .6
Answer one____
X .6
_______
___________Answer two (rectangle around this answer)

8. Finding your Target Heart Rate Zone
Step 3:
Take the number with the circle around it (MHR) and multiply it by .85
Answer one____
X .85
_______
___________Answer two (Triangle around this answer)

9. Write the following statement:
My target heart rate zone is between _______ (insert # with a rectangle around it, which is 60% of your MHR) and _______ (insert # with a triangle around it, which is 85% of your MHR).