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You have to love technology, well at our Melbourne Boot camp today we had a max heart rate of 201 from Rebecca.

Generally the maximum heart rate is calculate by subtracting your age from 220 however this was based on data collected decades ago and placing a line through the middle of a plotted graph with the heart rate on the vertical axis and the age on the bottom axis. So as you can imaging, there were people that had recorded heart rates below and above this arbitrary line.

So based on Rebecca’s age, mmm I better not say exactly but it’s somewhere between 20 and 40, this would mean the calculation is inaccurate.

So if Rebecca reached 201, I’d say that this wasn’t her max, maybe 90-95% of HR max, so it’s more around 210.
With our Boot camp sessions, we use interval based training which involves short sustained bursts of intensity cardiovascular based exercise followed by a quick break.

A great way of calculating heart rate max is the beep test as this can push you reasonably close to exhaustion or to put it another way, when there is nothing left in the tank.

Best of all Rebecca burnt 554 calories as well

Well our weather good fortune continues:
1.Tuesday night, with the advancement of clouds on the horizon and a few micro particles of water droplets, a fitmate commented at 7.24pm that it was going to rain & the theory about it never raining between 6.30-7.30pm on Tuesday & Thursday nights was about to be broken.

I mentioned that we still had 6 minutes to go before the end of the session and the rain we be held off until such time.

We finished the session & within 5 minutes it bucketed down.

2.Today, it rained heavily overnight and continued into the morning.
Well with 12 hardened Fitmates attending the session, we proceded to a covered area of the park, then just as we completed some high intensity cardio, it started to rain heavily.

We continued the session while protected from the elements.
The rain stopped conveniently while we retreated back to the Rotundra to stretch.

With only light rain we decided to stay in the rotundra.
The Sun made a brief appearance and we continued to stretch.
After finishing the session at 9.30am all the fitmates went home and the inclement weather stated again with heavy rain & hail.
Check out the radar image

Well within one week we have experienced sweltering temperatures and flash floods (hopefully with some rainfall in the catchment areas)
Well done to everyone who has persevered:))

It’s always challenging with these massive variations in temperature.