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Originally Posted by yumyumcat
You can do your cardio without losing mass as long as you don't go over your target heart rate.
The universal equation is this:
220
-age = Maximum Heart Rate. Now, take 60% - 70% of that number and therein lies your Target Heart Rate. You want to maintain this rate throughout your cardio sessions.
Let's say you're 25 years old. Your Maximum Hear Rate will be 195 (too high and burning muscle) what you want to do is keep it at rate will be in between 117 and 136.
Here's an easy way to keep track of it. Get on your machine and there's always a digital clock. Check your pulse on your cardioid artery. Use two finger and place them on your neck and find it. I'm sure you know where that is  Now, just wait till the machine hits 00 or and count until 15 add 100 and say you count 128 beats. You're good to go. You're in between 117 and 136. |
hmmmm... I'm not an expert in this area... but this seems wrong to me
going by that formula my target heart rate would 118.8 - 138.6
I've always been under the impression that the best way to burn fat without losing muscle is HIIT... if I'm doing HIIT my heartrate is gonna be above that for sure. I would have to do low intensity cardio in order to keep my heart rate that low. Sooo...
