Stumbled onto a formula for calculating your maximum heart rate. The formula is very simple, and for me works much better than the 220 – age.
max heart rate = 205.6 – (0.685 x age)
It finds my heart rate to be 185.05 which is quite close to the 186 I measured in my max heart rate test. Awesome. Of course, as my aerobic conditioning gets better from training my max heart may change a bit again, but this is just a ballpark number.
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