Do you have a heart rate monitor?

Hey girls, I'm looking for someone (or someones) who would like to help me with a little experiment. As some of you know from reading my posts in the long ago past, I have ME/CFS. I've recently come across some treatment studies that believe using a heart rate monitor can help to identify when I'm overdoing things and need to stop and rest.

What I'm looking for are women with a novice-average level of fitness and are willing to wear their heart rate monitor for about 12 hours (a days' worth of activity) and monitor their HR during everyday activities, standing up while brushing their teeth, while washing their hair, walking up a few stairs or just around the house. Currently these sorts of activities send my HR right up to an anaerobic level but I have no access to data from control groups so was hoping to get a little of my own.

What you would need to do is set the monitor to beep at you when your activity level sends your bpm above the 50-60% zone (which depends on your age, I'm 33 and it's 93-111 bpm). I can exceed these levels just by standing up let alone moving around.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

I wish i had one so i could help out :(

Aethalia - thanks for the offer, if your interested I'd still be interested in what you see happen for you. Here's a chart of heart rate and age, you would be in the second column for your age so we would be interested to see what activities got your heart rate up to between 98-137


Kimnthekids:- thanks for the offer, if I had a spare I'd send it to you

TPD - thanks also, if your interested in how this all works out for me I'll send you a link to my blog, you might find it at least interesting reading and if you find yourself crashing it might give you some help (or at least the knowledge that your not alone)

cheers girls