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Originally Posted by jcass

the "at" as you call it, or what i would just call the max heart rate, is not changed much by what you do in the gym. it starts out high in infancy and then just keeps getting lower as you age. i guess higher is better since it implies that you have a "young heart". as far as i know you cannot increase it. perhaps you can slow the pace at which it goes down year by year.

and frankly, unless it is unusually low i wouldn't worry too much about it.

Thanks for the information. I researched a few sites and found the information I was looking for but thought that you might want to know that the AT, as I call it, is not the max heart rate.

Here's a link for you from my gym:

http://www.lifetimeendurance.com/public/351.cfm

Also just wanted to let you know in case you needed the info that you can increase your AT. Here's just one of the links I found from Rice University:

http://www.rice.edu/~jenky/sports/a....threshold.html

The 4th paragraph should help if you just want to skim it.

I wasn't really worrying about my high AT, just getting information from the pros here.

Thanks for participating in our forum.

Lisa