Use this calculator to determine your heart rate in whatever heart rate zone you desire for your workouts.

Simply enter your resting heartrate and your maximum heartrate in the fields provided below:

You can use your heart rate (the number of beats per minute) to judge the right pace for you. Your Heart Rate at whatever pace you run at is calculated as a percentage of your Maximum Heart Rate (MHR).

Low Intensity zone (50 – 60% of MHR)

Recommended for novice exercisers. Good forms of exercise include walking, light fitness exercising, cycling and swimming.

Weight Control zone (60 – 70% of MHR)

Fitness can be safely improved at this level. Also recommended for weight loss. Good forms of exercise include: brisk walking, jogging, aerobics and cycling.

Aerobic zone (70 – 80% of MHR)

Ideal for improving general endurance and aerobic capacity. Fitness exercising, running, cycling, jogging and swimming.

Anaerobic zone (80 – 90% of MHR)

Anaerobic training. Recommended for experienced athletes only

Maximal zone (90 – 100% of MHR)

Maximal training. Recommended for experienced athletes only

Finding out your heart rate is a useful way of tracking how your body is performing, if you are serious about your training you will need to invest in a good quality heart rate monitor – check out our  latest products from Timex

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Simply enter your age in the field provided below:

These are basic estimates, based on averages for age – and your Max Heart rate may vary. If you know your Max Heart rate, you can view the training zones with the Heartrate Zones Calculator

You can use your heart rate (the number of beats per minute) to judge the right pace for you. Your Heart Rate at whatever pace you run at is calculated as a percentage of your Maximum Heart Rate (MHR).

Low Intensity zone (50 – 60% of MHR)

Recommended for novice exercisers. Good forms of exercise include walking, light fitness exercising, cycling and swimming.

Weight Control zone (60 – 70% of MHR)

Fitness can be safely improved at this level. Also recommended for weight loss. Good forms of exercise include: brisk walking, jogging, aerobics and cycling.

Aerobic zone (70 – 80% of MHR)

Ideal for improving general endurance and aerobic capacity. Fitness exercising, running, cycling, jogging and swimming.

Anaerobic zone (80 – 90% of MHR)

Anaerobic training. Recommended for experienced athletes only

Maximal zone (90 – 100% of MHR)

Maximal training. Recommended for experienced athletes only

Finding out your heart rate is a useful way of tracking how your body is performing, if you are serious about your training you will need to invest in a good quality heart rate monitor – check out  the latest products from Timex

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Body Mass Index (BMI) can be used to indicate if you are overweight, obese, underweight or normal. It will, however, overestimate fatness in people who are muscular or athletic.

Women tend to believe they look their best at values between 20 to 22 and men are usually satisfied with a BMI of 23 to 25. If your BMI is between 20 – 24.9, your life expectancy is longer than average. You don’t need to lose weight.

If your BMI is between 20 and 25, you are not considered overweight by most people. But if your BMI is 25 or more, that’s not good. But you knew that already.

Above all, Don’t Worry, Be Happy. It’s unhealthy to have anxiety over a less-than-perfect body image. And, if this calculator’s description of your body seems wrong for you, just trust your own judgment. A healthy mental attitude is just as important as physical fitness.

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Pace judgement comes with experience and practice. The pace calculator here will assist you in splitting your distance down into manageable sections.

Using the Pace Calculator

1). To generate split times:

If you know your time for a split distance (400m, 1 Km or 1 mile) insert it and press calculate, we’ll tell you how fast your other splits will be.

If you know how fast you run a known distance (say 5 miles), put the distance and the time into the ‘I can run’ fields and we’ll calculate your split times.

2). To calculate overal time/distance

If you want to calculate how far you would run in a given time, give us a known split time and an amount of time.

If you want to calculate how long it would take you run a given distance, give us a known split time and the distance.

Example

You feel that you are ready to run 10k in 43 minutes so you input the information into the calculator and it will tell you that you need to run each Kilometre in 4minutes 18 seconds.

It will also assist you in planning a training programme because you can input your run / race times and distance and it will give your pace times and from this you can pitch your interval / speed sessions at the right level for improvement.

You can use this tool in a variety of ways and will be of real help when it comes to pace judgement – even paced running is by far the best way to complete a race, particularly in events above 5k.

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