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.

Why Does My Heart Rate Drop When I Raise My Arms Up?

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Matthew Larson

Your body responds to everything you do to it. For example, raising your arms may cause a noticeable drop in heart rate even in perfectly healthy individuals. A decrease in heart rate when raising your arms is a normal response to change in venous return. Normal cardiac physiology is responsible for this phenomenon.

Fast Heart Rate & Pain

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Matthew Larson

When the body is injured, signals are sent from the site of damage to the spinal cord. As a central command center, the nervous system regulates the body’s response to the pain through a variety of reflexes.

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