Daily Life in China                  

About your HEART RATE and how to calculate it.

    Your heart is beating all the time.  The more you exercise the more your heart pumps blood through your body.  Your blood and veins feed the body by carrying foods to places all over the body.  You should get to know your heart rate and what happens during exercise.  When you exercise you burn energy/calories.  The more you exercise the more your body needs energy/calories in the form of sugar.  Your blood system gets them there.

   Everyone's heart rate is different but the average is 60 beats per minute.  It changes when you rest or when you exercise.  The more you exercise the faster your heart beats to supply your body.  You can estimate how good the exercise is for you by knowing your heart rate.  The link below will help you. 

   You first have to find out your resting heart rate.  You do that by taking your pulse the first thing in the morning before before you get out of bed.  Feel you pulse at your wrist or neck and count the pulses for thirty seconds.  Multiply that by two and will know your resting heart rate.  Put that into the web site below.  It will give you an estimate of you heart rate for various activities such as walking or running.