I recently have increased my training volume a bit, trying to do some workout every day, with the exeption to take one rest day per week. By alterning cycling, running and swimming this works just fine for my arms and legs, but the only muscle that newer rest is my heart! How do i know if i been given myself enough rest? My total training peer week normaly adds upp to somewhere between 7-8 hours
is this a serious post?
your heart never rests… if it did you’d die!
I think at 7-8 hrs a week you’ve nothing to worry about.
Of course iam not talking about rest in that sense, just was wondering about how much i can train. But i guess the legs will be overtrained before the heart does.
Of course iam not talking about rest in that sense, just was wondering about how much i can train. But i guess the legs will be overtrained before the heart does.
i would thinkg that unless you have some sort of heart/health condition, your lungs and other muscles will prevent you from going on before you heart approaches any dangerous level.
I always wondererd if say your heart has 3 million beats in it b4 it dies, then us training 6-7 days a week up our heart rate (BPM) by 50-75% our we starting to negate the effect of our cardio workouts. So say if we have 85 years on this earth after doing so much cardio and our heart beating so much faster all the time our we going to cut that down to 80 years? I knew some and hear stories alot of runners who were very dedicated and ran every day then all of the sudden have heart attacks around age 68 -75. Being 40 myself and starting to go to alot more funerals I am starting to think more and more about this. Are there any studies on this out there?
well, pros train upwards of 30 hrs a week.
Build to it slowly…
Maybe since the resting heartrate gets lower, then you will spare some beats when not training 
Actually all type of training if comes to an extreme can be harmfull, but being overweight and inactive is not so good either
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YOu’re forgetting an important effect on the heart in a trained state. It beats slower at rest. The number of beats a day then actually goes down since very few atheles./none could ever train more hours each 24 than they are at rest/revovering.
Actually all type of training if comes to an extreme can be harmful
You can’t say things like that around here, this is ST!
There are people that think that burning a lot of calories a day is a good way to not get old, but I think you don’t get born with a certain amount of heart beats to go. Running don’t make you immune to heart attacks, but heart attacks don’t happen after a cummulation of a certain amount of heart beats.
There are literally thousands of studies proving that regular aerobic exercise improves cardiac function, reduces mortality and morbidity, and extends lifespan.
the heart does not have a predetermined # of beats, or a pre-programmed expiration date.
2 hours of training at 150bpm is 18,000 beats
That is 10,800 beats more over a 2 hour span than resting 60bpm.
Through training, for example, your RHR drops from 60 to 48bpm. Thats 12bpm less, which is 720, per hour, which is 15,840 less beats throughout the rest of the day (22hrs).
As a result of adaptation through training, your heart is beating 5,040 LESS TIMES EVERY DAY.
do you assume with this that a big sport heart is a healthy thing?
Your heart responds to metabolic demand. If you’re overtrainied and your muscle cells need extra fuel/oxygen to rebuild or are trying to rid themselves of excess waste, your heart will beat faster to supply this ability. Effectively, your HR is higher than normal at rest- so monitor your HR in the AM, and if it’s up a bit, take a day off.
Your heart never “gets tired”- it’s just a proxy for how spun out the rest of your body is.
big sport heart? whats that
Thats the big pounding thing in your chest you feel when you go over your threshold limit.
Think of it this way: The benefit of any workout comes when you RECOVER from it. A hard workout could require two days or more (an Ironman takes 4-6 weeks). Periodization (the science of hard and easy days, recovery days, vacations, etc.,) is imprecise. Although there is some expensive electronic equipment that you can hook up to that supposedly gives you precise data on your recovery status, most of us have to seat-of-the-pants. It’s called “listening to your body.”
Hypothetical: So you train hard and after a while you realize that you’re not improving. Typically this means that you’re training too hard on your easy days and probably not hard enough on your hard days. The best thing to do is to take about a week off (maybe some easy laps in the pool and some social bike riding, but no workouts, per se). After that, you should feel considerably stronger, which would be proof positive that you were overtrained/underrecovered. It happnes to everyone who comes to the sport with confidence and aggressive goals.
How much training/rest a person’s body can handle is a very individual thing. If you’re under 40 and you’ve been training for years, you can probably handle more training than average and your body is probably pretty good at recovering. If you’re new to hard training, you will need more recovery. If you’re over 50 you will need more recovery.
It basically comes down to having a few marker workouts that you can do that will give you a good indication of your recovery status. I have found that running three miles on a treadmill (after warm up) at a predetermined heart rate will give me a good picture. If I’m on the edge or overtrained, my heart rate will want to run high and I’ll have to slow down to stay within the parameters. I use this to help me calibrate and/or confirm my “gut feel.”