Gauge your best level of exercise intensity with the talk test. If you can converse easily while exercising, you aren't working hard enough for maximum benefit. If you can't talk at all, then you are exercising too hard. When you just begin to have trouble speaking due to the intensity of the exercise, you are probably working at 80% to 90% of your maximum heart rate-the level for optimum benefit.
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