Target Heart Rate and Cardio Monitoring for Safe Workouts

Maintaining a healthy resting heart rate is a key indicator of cardiovascular health, especially during high-intensity HIIT or IVF. Learn how to lower your heart rate while running and evaluate the accuracy of calories burned on heart rate monitors.

Does Brisk Walking Increase My Heart Rate?

Published Sep,06 2011 | By Karen Hellesvig-Gaskell

Brisk walking, like any form of exercise, will cause your heart to beat faster. As a general rule, the faster you move, the more your heart rate will increase. For example, running will typically cause a faster heart rate than walking at a leisurely pace.

Intensive workout on treadmill, cardio training

The Effect of Weight on Heart Rate

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Karen Hellesvig-Gaskell

Your heart is essentially a pump, designed to circulate blood throughout your body. Your bloodstream carries nutrients and oxygen to cells throughout your body, and carries away carbon dioxide and other byproducts of cellular metabolism.

Karen Hellesvig-Gaskell is a broadcast journalist who began writing professionally in 1980. Her writing focuses on parenting and health, and has appeared in “Spirituality & Health Magazine" and “Essential Wellness.” Hellesvig-Gaskell has worked with autistic children at the Fraser School in Minneapolis and as a child care assistant for toddlers and preschoolers at the International School of Minnesota, Eden Prairie.