Re: [RC] Heartrate monitors and their uses - steelsidedown
Tee hee I love to watch the heart monitor during
spooks! (which causes contact with the ground from time to time, but oh well,
thats good entertainment too) --HRM is a great way to tell those fake
(attitude) spooks from the real thing too! My Arabs usually spook somewhere in the 180-200 range, I've not notice
it go down with conditioning.
It wasn't that long ago
that I finally bought my first heart rate monitor to help me with my quest to
condition Alpine. The real reason I bought it is that Alpine is coming
off a bowed tendon, and although I think I'm pretty good at telling if my
horse is lame, I figured this might help me tell if I was pushing him too
hard, and catch something before it became severe.
I've been having fun with my little heartrate
monitor. It's just the very basic, simple one, but it is kind of fun to see
where Alpine's heartrate sits at the various gaits. I've learned that in his
current roly poly state after 8 months of basically doing NOTHING, that he
walks between 79-85 bpm normal walk. His 5mph speed walk is at about
100bpm. His slow gait runs about 150 bpm and his medium 160bpm. I
haven't gone any faster than that with him. We are still building that
condition base back up, regaining endurance, and strengthening that t endon.
What is REALLY interesting is the spooking.
Alpine is a spooky horse. He spooks at
everything, and some days, nothing. He has spooked at his own gut sounds
before. Thankfully, he's not an Arab, and he has no knowledge of the
teleportation that I've seen Arab's do, or I'd not be able to ride him.
He is kind enough to spook in place...which is really only inconvienent
when we are moving at a good clip. That sudden stop is a killer.....
I have learned over the past few rides,
what his heartrate does during spooks. If we are walking, and the wind
blows, the heart rate goes up to the 90's. A horizontal log (this is one
of his major pet peeves. I think he's worried about whatever pushed that
log over is coming after him next) runs around 100. If the wind is
blowing AND we come across a horizontal tree, think 130. Oddly enough,
the turkeys that popped out and the deer that jumped in fro nt of us hardly
made a dent in that heart rate. That makes no sense to me, but then, I'm
not a horse. Oh, and the black spot on the road was a 120 bpm spook.
I wonder, as he gains more fitness, does the spook bpm rating go
down too?
Juli M Bechard Life of
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