Learn more about your heart!
The educational trail offers a pleasant and beneficial recreational exercise program, where during a hiking trail (or intensive walking) you receive feedback on the health condition of your heart. For this a trails have been developed on a professional base, where educational signs help you understand the inner workings of the cardiovascular system. If you take on the trail you have to check your pulse first in resting and then – at various stages – under stress, so at the end of the trail it gives you all the resolution, that can be analysed.
Who do we recommend it?
The program is recommended for everyone: healthy people as well as those living with cardiovascular disease or high blood pressure, diabetes and other chronic diseases in order to screen for possible unrecognized diseases for the purpose of regular exercise and self-examination. Trails of different lengths and degrees of difficulty allow everyone to find something suitable for them.
Documenting and evaluating the data
Record your measured heart rate during your route on a sheet that can be taken from a container under the first sign, and then place it filled at the end of the trail in the collection box at the same place. To evaluate your heart rate date, complete the trail in the direction indicated on the map!
The measured heart rate data is evaluated by healthcare professionals. You will receive feedback on the e-mail address provided on the sheet.
How fast should you go?
The goal is to achieve evaluable heart rate data, for which it matters at what pace you complete the trail. Therefore: proceed using your fitness capacities (for healthy people: if you can talk to the person next to you while on the trail, then you are not going fast enough); stop between two heart rate measuring points only if you feel that this is absolutely necessary for fitness or health reasons; it can be also worth taking Nordic walking poles, because they also contribute to a higher pulse rate. In case of lower resilience, choose the shorter, easier route first. If you can exercise well, choose a walking pace that keeps your heart rate within your training zone.
What is a training zone?
The training zone is the most recommended target pulse rate range for maintaining health, calculated from your current age.
A. If you are healthy and do not take heart rate-lowering drugs, you can find out your training zone – the lowest and highest heart rate recommended for you – on the hiking sheet that can be taken at the beginning of the trail.
b. If you are a patient, or have another known illness, or are over 40 years old and just starting an athletic lifestyle, it is safer if your doctor, physiotherapist, or trainer determines your training zone, usually based on a stress ECG test.
How to measure your heart rate correctly?
Speed: your pulse starts to decrease as soon as you stop, so start measuring your pulse as soon as you reach a measurement point. (The most practical for this is a wristwatch that can monitor your heart rate, but manual measurement is also suitable.) Measurement points are marked with signs, on which we give you instructions for the correct measurement.
Guided tours
If you would like to take part in a tour led by a specialist you can apply at the following e-mail address: efi@keszthelyikorhaz.hu.
