Fitness trackers and smartwatches can make it easier to stay in your heart rate training zones. (Getty Creative) Forget the guesswork — fitness just got easier to master. As fitness trackers grow in ...

The target heart rate is how fast the heart should beat during physical activity. Calculating the target heart rate and comparing it with the actual heart rate can help a person work out if their ...

If the numbers your watch sets for zone 2 don’t track with what you’ve found your heart rate to typically be during truly ...

Learn how to calculate target heart rate in a way that actually reflects your physiology, according to a clinical exercise physiologist. I belong to several Facebook fitness groups, and always found ...

Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

What Does a High Resting Heart Rate Mean? The ups and downs of HRV can be so tricky to navigate, in fact, that most doctors, even cardiologists, don’t factor it into treatment plans for their patients ...

Not that it was ever unpopular, but it’s fair to say that running is going through somewhat of a renaissance right now. Data released by Sport England in April of this year revealed that 250,000 more ...

Over my decade of coaching and training, heart rate is one of the most overlooked factors in weight loss. While most people focus on adjusting their diet or trying the latest workout trend, I've found ...

The metric is available on most fitness trackers. Here’s what it means. By Talya Minsberg You just finished a long, hard bike ride. But how hard was it, exactly? That depends on what you measure: How ...

Runners usually talk in terms of threshold pace, but following your heart can also be a useful way of structuring your sessions. By David Smyth ‘Comfortably hard’ sounds a bit like a contradiction in ...

Measuring heart health isn’t only for those who've had heart failure, but also critical for those with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Heart rate variability is a key measure of heart health. As you ...