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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]220 minus your age is your max.  Target hr for cardio fitness is 64 - 76% of your maximum.

12% incline is hard.  Depending on where you start physically, you may need to do intervals to get your heart rate down for a bit.

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Use this guidance. Without proper testing, which OP isn't even in condition to do now anyways, you can't know maximum heart rate or zones. Just keep it in this range as suggested and you will have success.

Also keep in mind that your heart rate will be affected significantly by air temperature and humidity. Since you are primarily doing this work inside try to keep the room consistent each time and consider getting yourself a fan. I actually need to buy some fans for my treadmill area - thanks for the reminder!
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Talk to your doctor first before trying but here is how you can find your true max HR:

Use a heart rate chest strap to get accurate data during the following test:

2 miles easy jog warm up
    1 mile at strong tempo pace to bring the HR up
    400m at maximum effort
    400m where you push harder at every 100m interval to get the maximum HR possible

Find the maximum heart achieved during this run, enter 2bpm higher than the highest heart rate you achieved during this test. We like to enter 2 beats per minute higher because you could probably have pushed a littler harder if there was a gun to your head.

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