A couple of months ago, I walked up Snowdon with a charity called Pumping Marvellous, led by some ex-SAS and marines from Intrepid Adventures.
The aim was to raise awareness of patients with heart failure and several of the walkers that joined us did so because they had a friend or relative with heart failure. They wanted to experience the breathlessness that their loved ones experience on a daily basis just by going through their daily activities.
We were each given a heart rate monitor from 'MyZone' and once we had uploaded our personal details such as height and weight onto the App, it was able to track our activity during the day. The idea was that the charity would analyse our activity results at the end of the day and compare them to those of the heart failure patients.
At the end of the day my App told me I had burnt 2750kCal, walked 18k in 8:41hrs. My average Heartrate was 103 and maximum was 158bpm. MyZone allows one to compare workouts with friends and earn "MEPs" as part of that competition. Our guide swears by it and uses as daily as his main workout tracker. Certainly the belt was easy to wear and use, and if you're a competition soul, it could be the App of choice.
Snowdon was, as ever, wet and cold at top, the views were poor. It was still beautiful, atmospheric and green. We walked up the Watkins path which started steady and easy then in the last 400m of ascent, it became steeper and looser under foot. The steps became larger, causing the legs and lungs to work harder. That's when the heartrate would have hit the 158bpm maximum. For me, that is around 87% of my maximum, and not at all challenging. Running at 177bpm is possible for me, and regularly happens!
The aim was to raise awareness of patients with heart failure and several of the walkers that joined us did so because they had a friend or relative with heart failure. They wanted to experience the breathlessness that their loved ones experience on a daily basis just by going through their daily activities.
We were each given a heart rate monitor from 'MyZone' and once we had uploaded our personal details such as height and weight onto the App, it was able to track our activity during the day. The idea was that the charity would analyse our activity results at the end of the day and compare them to those of the heart failure patients.
At the end of the day my App told me I had burnt 2750kCal, walked 18k in 8:41hrs. My average Heartrate was 103 and maximum was 158bpm. MyZone allows one to compare workouts with friends and earn "MEPs" as part of that competition. Our guide swears by it and uses as daily as his main workout tracker. Certainly the belt was easy to wear and use, and if you're a competition soul, it could be the App of choice.
Snowdon was, as ever, wet and cold at top, the views were poor. It was still beautiful, atmospheric and green. We walked up the Watkins path which started steady and easy then in the last 400m of ascent, it became steeper and looser under foot. The steps became larger, causing the legs and lungs to work harder. That's when the heartrate would have hit the 158bpm maximum. For me, that is around 87% of my maximum, and not at all challenging. Running at 177bpm is possible for me, and regularly happens!
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