Mental Strength

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I have been doing regular cardio-vascualr activity for about 3 years now and since coming back after a 6 week holiday break, I have lost my mental stength and I fear that my fitness may decrease as a result of this.

A few months ago when I was at optimum fitness, my resting heartrate was 53 bpm which I consider to be very good. I just took my heart rate now and it is 73. Take note that I am 15. Do you think it is possible that stress from school work could have raised my heart beat by 20?

Well to be honest I am pretty sure that my fitness has dropped along with my mental strength so I was wondering if any of you could provide me with tips on increasing my mental strength in order to increase my effort during c-v exercise.

Note: I am a rower so I generally do ergos, weights sessions and water sessions.
 
How and when are you measuring your resting heart rate?

I recall reading somewhere that the only way to consistantly and accurately measure resting heart rate is immediately on waking up in the morning, before getting out of bed.
 
dswithers said:
How and when are you measuring your resting heart rate?

I recall reading somewhere that the only way to consistantly and accurately measure resting heart rate is immediately on waking up in the morning, before getting out of bed.
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I walked over to my bed, lied down on it and recorded 1 minute on a stop watch to get 73bpm. I record my heart rate by placing my hand on my chest and not my pulse if that makes any difference.

I got 53 bpm when we had some health day thing at school and some nurses came in and used the blood pressure monitor and that measured my pulse.

I don't know if there's any difference between pulse rate and heart rate?
 
Well I don't really have the urge to try hard during exercise. Are there any mental exercises that you can do to increase the want to exercise.
 
Just so you know..rowing is an intense form of aerobic exercise. Brutal, even, if you ask me. A lot of fitness experts consider more than 15 minutes of hard rowing too much. Try mixing it up by doing some rowing, some cycling, some running. You may find it less punishing. :)
 
Music is good. Goals are even better. You have to have a reason you're there. If that reason isn't strong enough in the beginning you'll be swimming upstream for a while and it will suck. Find a mini goal that can pump you up. It can be something little or big but make it meaningful to you. Also if the rowing isn't making you feel like doing backwards flips try finding some other form of cardio thats more fun for now. It doesn't have to be at the gym. Basketball, soccer, jumping rope..anything. When you feel more "fit" the rowing won't feel so gruesome and maybe you'll look forward to it more.

As for heart rate. Mine can jump that much just by taking 2 or more weeks off (yes folks I did that once :rolleyes:) It doesn't necessarily mean that much except you're a bit out of shape and that may just be your "normal" pulse when you're not in top form. Its a pretty average heat rate for most your age. Don't sweat it. BTW pulse and heart rate are the same thing
 
if there is one thing I leaarned in the Army, is that the human body is an amazing thing. They Push you to the brink of collapse. I can't tell you how many times were I thought I was "done" ready to quit the "run" or exercise that we were doing, and I was not the only one.

You learn to push yourself to go beyond your limits mentally.

One of my greatest achievements is we did a 20 mile Run in the middle of the summer night with 80lbs on our back in full gear, Fatiges, rifle, helmet, in boots. I was the road guard? what is a road guard? while you are running, you run along side the Platoon/company, when you come to a road, you Sprint ahead to the road and stop any traffic while your platoon/company, after they pass, you sprint back to catch up to the company and then back to jog next to them....try that for 20 miles, by the time we were done around 4/5Am we all collapsed on the ground.....but we made it.

Military cadences are great to run to, it keeps your "mind" off of what your body is doing, most of it is Mental, I never realized I could push my body so far.....So now through my life, I "plow through" whatever my goal is, I never quit....not an option.

Military sayings....Things to live by

Stay alert, stay alive.

Suck it up and Drive on.

There is no Impossible, adapt and overcome.

Learn it, live it, Be it.
 
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