The heart rate zone formula is flawed, especially for women. Here's how to rethink your training.

That tension becomes especially clear with heart rate zone training, a popular five-tier system that endurance athletes use to measure effort and fine-tune performance. The well-known formula is ...
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Is your resting heart rate healthy? Here’s how to check – and what to do if yours is too low or too high

To live is to have a heartbeat, which is why it makes sense for us living things to have a good understanding of our ticker. It’s well-known science that our hearts beat faster when we exercise and ...
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WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed

Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. student Nayan Bhatia demonstrates Pulse-Fi, technology that uses WiFi signals to measure a person's heart rate. Heart rate is one of the most basic and important ...