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PaulDavisThe1styesterday at 11:16 PM1 replyview on HN

General advice: citing absolute HR numbers is pretty meaningless for a broad audience, because they are not intepretable. Express them as percentages of your current max HR to be meaningful to others.


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gcanyontoday at 2:28 AM

As I said, N=1 so the post was meaningless before I said another word :-)

For your benefit: my max is somewhere around 175, maybe 180, which is high for my age.

I'm also unusual in that even my max heart rate doesn't lead to lactic acid buildup, for what it's worth.