There’s not many better investments you can making a great effort to adopt an exercise programme.
Perhaps the most vital part of that programme will give you the huge benefit of a healthy and strong heart.
Try and get your resting heart rate measured at the start of your programme.
Then try and measure it periodically, to see if you are making progress or not.
If it isn’t coming down at all over a period of say 2-3 months, then you seriously need to consider what the heck you are doing with your programme, and if it is working for you or not!
I have seen quite a few individuals start off with me with heart rates over 100 beats per minute, and most of them now are in the 50’s or 60’s with a properly executed programme.
For your general information, the average resting heart rate for a healthy individual and im talking adults, would be 72 beats per minute. If you are above this, then you need to examine why and what you can do to bring it down.
This is why i advocate monthly measuring to monitor your progress as a whole, this will give you a range of information that you can read and react to.
If things aren’t going your way, you can put things right straight away, if things are going very well for you, you know you are on course and you will take great inspiration from all of this!
Heart performance is a pivotal part of my training plans and their intention.
We will talk a lot about this in the coming days and how you can maximise your performance, whilst still getting maximum benefits in health terms for your most important muscle, your heart of course!!!
Never has a subject been more relevant for you!
