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and just want to make sure I got this right. I ordered my HR monitor - used to have one but never used it and cant find it now. I am 37, so I go with the 180-37=143. But I have been working out consistently for about 7 years now so I add 5 beats which brings me to 148. Now I want to keep all my workouts below this, but I guess my question is whether I should be shooting to be as close to this as possible or if I should just be even more conservative and keep it lower - say 140 just so that if I do spike a bit during the workout it wont go over the 148? Thanks in advance. Jeff