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Lecture Notes

The two pictures on this slide show two people palpating places on their body to measure heart rate manually. So on the left you see the woman palpating her carotid artery, and on the right the gentleman is palpating his radial artery, both to get measures of their heart rate. The challenge with manual heart rates is that your heart rate is dropping dramatically as you stop exercising, so it's difficult to get as accurate of a reading when you're using your manual heart rate compared with the electronic on the previous slide, and also it's pretty hard to do this while you're working out. So oftentimes you have to stop exercising in order to take your manual heart rate, but still a great way to gauge the intensity of your exercise efforts.