Health Check: what should our maximum heart rate be during exercise?
- Written by Angela Spence, Senior Lecturer in Exercise Physiology (BSc, PhD), Curtin University

You have your runners on, your FitBit is charged, but now what?
When you exercise, your heart and breathing rates increase, delivering greater quantities of oxygen from the lungs to the blood, then to exercising muscles.
Determining an optimal heart rate for exercise...
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