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[RC] Shed light on Kat's log book confusion - Alexa OlneyI did not read the original so I don't know what all it entailed. I do know
how ever that you can know your recoveries to within the second. This is what
we who have worked as ride volunteers do when taking pulses. A half a second
can make a difference. When you take a pulse you count how many beats for 15
sec if there are 15 beats in those 15 sec then you multiply by 4 which would be
a whole minute so that gives you your 60 bpm (beats per min.). That is what
pulse criteria is about so a 64 you would count 16 beats in 15 sec and so on
and so forth. Now a whole beat is a "thump thump" so you may have an extra
half beat at the end of the count which technically means you are not down yet
you are still 2 bpm high if you are using 64 for example then you would be a
66. I think what they are trying to say is if the horses heart rate is high
consistently after a certain amount of work or if after more conditioning it
comes down faster. Just thought I
could help shed some light. I learned to take pulses at a very young age
(about 8) so I thought I could explain it well. Hope this helped.
Alexa
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