EXERCISE GUIDELINES ARE NOT ROCKET SCIENCE DEAR DR. DONOHUE: You have written several times in the past about the formula used to determine the training zone for exercise. It's the one where you deduct your age from 220 and then take 60 percent to 75 percent of that number for obtaining the low and high heartbeat rate that puts you in the zone for benefiting from the exercise.

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