Women, do you feel like you are pushing yourself to exhaustion when trying to reach your maximum heart rate during a workout? Do you feel like you have pushed yourself past the point of a challenging workout and into the point of it being completely uncomfortable and painful? No worries, new research brings hope to help you push yourself to a comfortable level when trying to reach your maximum heart rate.
Dr. Martha Gulati from Northwestern University conducted a study that shows that the old-fashioned way women are supposed to calculate their maximum heart rate is wrong (220-age).The new way reduces the maximum heart rate by almost 8 beat per minute.
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