My wife is not a big forum kind of girl - thats my thing. She's normally involved in other things, as she's at home for the summer (she's a teacher) and enjoying her time with the kids. I pull her in to look over things before I post, but by and large, she doesn't involve herself much in the ME dance world yet - she's still learning her craft.
I like to do the networking and stuff, anyway.
I'll bring up the fact that she's been invited in, but I don't know that she'll be interested at this point.
As for answering the upper and lower heart rates issue - for the heavy exercise you're not necessarily going for HR - that's gonna max out anyway because this is sustaining a peak of activity for five minutes. Its also a self-limiter - you will NOT bang out a hundred push-presses in a minute, you might get 20 or so, and fatigue sets in, so you end up slowing down anyway.
We get sustained cardio and monitored HR with the ellipticals - the elliptical machines have a HRM built in, and this is where we focus on sustained upper HR.
The heavy lift session is designed to hit your HR peak and provide maximum work over a short sustainable point. Even if you have to take longer breaks than is written for, you will get benefits from this. Kinda like running - you don't have to go long and sustained, but you do have to keep walking, you don't get to stop.
She's not the biggest WT fan, but we talk about all sorts of silliness when we are resting, and we give pos. feedback as we lift and give encouragement as we work, so its not a lonely grind.
Mago
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