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Angliholic Posted 18 years ago
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keep your heart rate up

If your main goal is to lose weight, you need to burn fat ... you need to keep your heart rate up continuously for at least twenty minutes.

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Does "keep your heart rate up" in the above mean "keep your heart beating faster?" Thanks.
  

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Yes, at least. A physical trainer might say that more is involved.

  • Yes, at least.
  • A physical trainer might say that more is involved.
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Yes, at least. A physical trainer might say that more is involved.
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yes thats what it means
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AngliholicDoes "keep your heart rate up" in the above mean "keep your heart beating faster?"
Yes. "up" and "down" are frequently used as fast and slow, probably related to expressions like speed up and slow down, but they are also applied to other properties, like volume of sound (Speak up. Keep the noise down.).

CJ

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