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Math in Real Life- Heart Rates

It’s the first Wednesday of April which means it’s time for our monthly linky – Math In Real Life!! If you want to see how the linky works, or just want other real world math ideas, check out our Pinterest Board of all the posts so that you can look back and find some great ideas and REAL pictures to use in your classroom!

If you are linking up, please include the below picture AND a link back to all four of our blogs – feel free to use the 2nd image and the links listed below!

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A monthly REAL WORLD math blog link-up hosted by

4mulaFun, The Teacher Studio, Teaching to Inspire in 5th, AND MissMathDork,

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So unless you have been living under a rock you know that in January I had weight loss surgery. Yep, 2 1/2 months and I’m doing great, really I am.

So this month when I was thinking about how I have been using math in my life lately I immediately started thinking about my workouts. Recently I invested in a Polar H7 Bluetooth Heart Rate Monitor that I have become IN LOVE with! I was worried in the beginning if it woudl do anything to transform my workouts that I was starting and boy has it!

Basically I wear this band around my chest and the heart rate monitor sits right on my heart while I workout for a VERY accurate reading. Now during my workouts since I am trying to do the most for fat burning that I can I need to stay in Zone 2 or lower. When I hit Zone 3 I start improving fitness and burning sugar rather than fat. As you can see in the first part of the picture below I was doing a High Intensity workout that got my hear rate up way to high. This was before I learned more about my new tool.

Math in Real Life- Tracking Heart Beats with an Activity Monitor

Now that I am using this tool regularly I am able to see my heart rate for Zone 2 increase. Originally I had to keep my heart rate under 118 for it stay in that zone and now I’m up to about 126 bpm. In a course of a couple of weeks this is a great improvement. Not only has this helped my heart during my workouts but I really am seeing the weight loss once again.

I’m asked quite regularly where I am at on the weight loss and since that is more math, I am down 45 lbs since I started the pre-op in December and am ready to hit that 50 mark! Right now I’ve also started a walking goal for 100 miles by the time I go to Vegas! I started on Saturday and have raked up 2.5 miles so far. As of Saturday it was 100 days away so I know this is possible!

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Don’t forget to check out the other MIRL posts below! Check back over the next few days – more will be added!!


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