Resting heart rate

[Tiggsy]

Jan 1st last year I was 21 stone, prob over 30% bf and when I tried to run round the feild behind my house (1.9 miles) I had to stop 4 times.

I'm now around 15st 8lbs (at 6'6) and have worked out for a year - mix of weights, hiit and basketball (which is like hiit!) try and do two things a day ( so may run in the am, weights in the eve or weights in the day and ball at night) and always have 2 clear days a week. Anyway, been playing with a hr monitor this week and my resting pulse is always between 38 and 44. Not bad for old 38 yr old! 2 years ago I felt like I was due a heart attack any second!

[Timsta]

I'm your age and mine is 75! I do something every day, but admittedly have only been doing that for a few weeks.

Should it be that high? I do EA Active fit 4 times a week and my heart rates seem to be in the right ranges according to the program.

ETA: Just checked and an average adult is between 60-100. phew. An athlete will be closer to 40.

Edited by Timsta on Monday 19th March 00:25

[fid]

That is quite low Tiggsy, pro athlete low... Not always a good thing, do you know what it was pre-workout year?

[otolith]

Resting heart rate is lowered by training, but has a significant heritability. My grandfather always had a very slow heart, and my mother had to have her angina medication adjusted when a normal dose turned out to be slowing her heart rate far too much. I don't seem to have inherited this trait, and have a fairly normal resting rate (haven't checked it since losing weight and increasing my fitness, mind).

[Smitters]

Aye - mine tends on the low side, so even now, when I'm very out of shape it's low 50's. One thing I would say is that if the OP is checking regularly, then it's fine, but if you just dipped in to see, it would be worth spending a couple of weeks establishing if that truly is your RHR. Being ill or over-training can affect your RHR, so taking it every morning (extra minutes lie in a bonus) will give you a good model to work from.

[Tiggsy]

It used to be that low in my teens early 20's when I was gym instructor....it sat around 65/70 when I did nothing for 15 years!

Testing it with a polar monitor worn all day - I then just take chunks of time where I'm chillin (watching TV) and take an average. Overnight last night I had an average of 44 with a high of 60....good dream???

[Halb]

Just took mine, beats in a minute, 61. I could feel it increasing in speed as I tried to count

[LordGrover]

Mine has always been low, typically mid-forties.
No change since I stopped smoking December 2010, started exercise in my early forties and recently cut back on drinking and cleaned up my diet, big time. Still mid-forties.

[Smitters]

Cool! I've always liked the idea that a heart has a finite number of beats to give, so I'm at a sneaky advantage.

[MacGee]

Mine is approx mid 50's. When I'm ready to exercise the anticipation gets it up to about 95. My max so far is 174. I try to get it down to 100-108 during my interval sessions before setting off on a hard piece again.

[Tiggsy]

Smitters said:

Cool! I've always liked the idea that a heart has a finite number of beats to give, so I'm at a sneaky advantage.

A resting pulse of 45 V a resting pulse of 65 is an extra 20 bpm - X 60 mins X 24 hrs X 365 days - thats over 10,000,000 beats a year extra!!!!

[Halb]

On the treadmill today for 20 minutes.
Peaked at 150ish, then it fell to 97 at the end of the cool off period.

I'll see if I can remember to do it when I wake up tomorrow. The old two fingers in the neck trick.

[shouldbworking]

Mine is naturally pretty low. Was having minor surgery last year and watching the ecg through it as they were chopping away into my shoulder. Heart rate never went over 45 the whole time - not bad considering im normally quite bad with white coat syndrome.

[LordGrover]

Curious it's those with a relatively low HR responding...

[Halb]

I thought mine was quite high compared to the zombies above me.
This morning it was 57 (I think), weighed myself after breakfast and was 18st9lb.

[Hoofy]

I have always done sports or exercise to varying degrees. Eaten terribly and not terribly. Never been overweight (well, until I started lifting heavy weights). My resting heart rate has always lurked around the 60-70bpm mark. Not sure what that means.

[Smitters]

LordGrover said:

Curious it's those with a relatively low HR responding...

Ha! Indeed. Well, as I sit here now, mine's 50. With a bit of focus I can drop it to high 40's, but my RHR definitely alters with my lifestyle. For the periods when I've not been able to exercise, or been unfit, it tends to sit at about 70, then as I'm able to do cardio, it drops into the 50s and stabilises there. Best shape of my life so far, which was in 2004, it was consistently mid 40's. Can't see it going much lower, but in percentage terms it's quite a range.

I seem to remember Miguel Indurain had a RHR of 29, so that ought to put an end to any perceived willy-waving.

Indurain - trained athlete

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