What’s on the Heart Rate poster
A 5-row table: Zone · % of max · Feels like.
Zones as a percentage of estimated maximum heart rate.
- 1 — very light — 50–60% — Easy conversation
- 2 — light — 60–70% — Comfortable, can talk
- 3 — moderate — 70–80% — Short sentences only
- 4 — hard — 80–90% — A few words
- 5 — maximum — 90–100% — No speech
Estimated max ≈ 220 − age, with wide individual variation. Typical adult resting rate is 60–100; fit adults are often lower.
Questions about the Heart Rate poster
- What’s on the Heart Rate poster?
- A 5-row table: Zone · % of max · Feels like. Zones as a percentage of estimated maximum heart rate. 1 — very light — 50–60% — Easy conversation; 2 — light — 60–70% — Comfortable, can talk; 3 — moderate — 70–80% — Short sentences only; 4 — hard — 80–90% — A few words; 5 — maximum — 90–100% — No speech. Estimated max ≈ 220 − age, with wide individual variation. Typical adult resting rate is 60–100; fit adults are often lower.
- Who is the Heart Rate poster for?
- Heart Rate belongs to the Body & health section rather than to a school year, because health is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning prevention can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Heart Rate poster?
- Measure resting rate on waking, before getting up. Anything later is not resting. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Heart Rate belongs on the wall where that health work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Heart Rate?
- Air Quality, Antibiotics and Blood Pressure sit alongside Heart Rate in the Body & health section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Air QualityAntibioticsBlood Pressure
- Is the Heart Rate poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Heart Rate downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Body & health section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Heart Rate poster print at?
- Heart Rate is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Heart Rate loses nothing.Printing guide
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