Heart rate and building muscle

[Mary27]

What range should my heart rate be at in order to build muscle?

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[BABY1]

Re: Heart rate and building muscle

It sounds like what you are looking for is to maintain a rate in the fat burning zone? If you do cardio at a high heartrate, all the time, you can start to use muscle for fuel which is what you dont want to do. TRy this to get you heartrates and I suggest maybe picking up a heart rate monitor to wear when you workout.

"In order to determine your fat burning zone, you first have to get an estimate on what your maximum heart rate (MHR) is. To do this, subtract your age from 220 if you're male; subtract your age from 226 if you're female. This is your MHR, calculated based on per sex averages. Your fat burning zone is between 60 and 70 percent of your MHR. Therefore, a 40 year old man's MHR would be 180, and his fat burning zone would be between 108 and 126 beats per minute."