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Check Your Target Heart Rate

  2. Right after you stop exercising, take your pulse: Place the tips of your first two fingers lightly over one of the blood vessels on your neck, just to the left or right of your Adam’s apple. Or try the pulse spot inside your wrist just below the base of our thumb.

  3. Count your pulse for 10 seconds and multiply the number by 6.

  4. Compare the number to the right grouping below: Look for the age that is closet to your age and read the line across. For example, if you are 43, the closest age on the chart is 45; the target zone is 88-131 beats per minute.

Age Target Heart Rate Zone
20 years 100-150 beats per minute
25 years 98-146 beats per minute
30 years 95-142 beats per minute
35 years 93-138 beats per minute
40 years 90-135 beats per minute
45 years 88-131 beats per minute
50 years 85-127 beats per minute
55 years 83-123 beats per minute
60 years 80-120 beats per minute
65 years 78-116 beats per minute
70 years 75-113 beats per minute

Source: Exercise and Your Heart, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the American Heart Association, NIH Publication No. 93-1677.

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