what is your resting heart rate
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lala2021 posted 11 weeks ago.
Mine usually averages about 49bpm. At work(animal hospital)we have a pulseometer that we use in surgery to monitor patients well i play with it alot and have been able to get my pulse down to 44! Sitting and talking which usually means alot of movement for me its usually around 60.
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VANZK posted 11 weeks ago.
Did a 45 min test a couple of weeks ago. Average 42, min 35bpm.
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DannoE posted 11 weeks ago.
36 yr-old male; 5'10", 190lbs. About 49 bpm resting.
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TriSooner posted 11 weeks ago.
Resting heart only tells you one thing: What your resting heart rate is. Big deal. Unless I'm completing missing the data on this, can someone please direct me to any scienctific evidence suggesting that resting HR is a result of fitness, or even if fitness reduces resting HR? What you will find is that a much better method of checking your physical fitness is to measure your heart rate after exercise and see how long it takes to get back to resting rate (Heart-Rate Recovery Immediately after Exercise as a Predictor of Mortality). You will also find that resting heart rate is correlated with cardiovascular risk factors (body mass index, blood pressure, glucose and cholesterol level), but I'm not finding anything other than anecedotal evidence suggesting that HR and fitness are correlated which is far from causation. Big deal that Lance has a resting HR or XX.
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paganopj posted 11 weeks ago.
It would be interesting to see if HR truly is a result of size versus fitness. I agree that resting HR is higher in obese people and lower in thin people as I am proof of this. My RHR has declined significantly since losing 90+ lbs. I am currently at around 47 or so.
What I'd like to know is the HR of all of the sedentary thin people--is there such a thing?
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caeagle16 posted 11 weeks ago.
Normally hovers between 50-55 (5'10", 155lbs, 24 yo W/M). I have noticed it does increase if I have extended periods (read: 3+ months) of inactivity, so it probably has something to do with fitness, but is not the most important measure of fitness capability
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dkhartung posted 11 weeks ago.
Thanks for the dose of rationality TriSooner. Funny how this topic always transgresses to an athletic version of a "mine's bigger than yours" discussion.
Yeah, we all work out and a large percentage of us have a resting heart rate in the 40s. Big deal.
I do track mine just to monitor and changes and signs of over training, but as TriSooner points out, what matters more to me is the rate at which HR returns to normal after exertion.
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TryScott posted 11 weeks ago.
I've never heard of a coach or athlete use their resting HR to gauge fitness. Plenty of people check their current resting HR vs their normal resting HR to help determine if they are over-trained or sick.
I put a watch by my bed to check my resting HR a few times, but I always forgot when I woke up. If I tried using the alarm clock (no seconds) I'd fall back asleep before getting to 1 minute.
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Semper Tri posted 11 weeks ago.
40's resting 55-70 throughout day 25yo male 5'10, 165ish lbs
i dont know what today will bring to me, but thats just fine.
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jnrice posted 11 weeks ago.
dkhartung wrote:
Thanks for the dose of rationality TriSooner. Funny how this topic always transgresses to an athletic version of a "mine's bigger than yours" discussion.
no no, not so much a measure of fitness, I am wondering if as I tend to want to fall asleep, after about an hour of listening to a prof drone on about whatever, during lectures if it might just be due to everything slowing down. Slower heart rate, lower metabolism etc. I'm tempted to wear my HRM all day some day just to see if it's unusually low for me at these super sleepy moments. Just curious, thanks for the poll.
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Clint-murphy posted 11 weeks ago.
I am fatter (right now) than most of you it seems so I am in the 150's.
At my most fit time (17-20), I would be high 130's to low 140's, which is where I want to be again.
I am getting to the point where I recover much quicker, which is a nice thing!
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brittda posted 11 weeks ago.
When I went in for surgery on Thursday, anxious during admitting it was 50.
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tribarwarrior posted 2 weeks ago.
mine's somewhere between 40-43bpm, 24years old, 6'4, 80kg's.
Having a lower resting heart rate shows that your heart (which is a muscle) is getting stronger, so in my opinion it is a great knowledge to have, if your resting heart rate is getting slower and slower it means your heart is getting stronger because it takes less beats per minute to pump the same amount of blood (at rest) throughout your body while still keeping a healthy blood pressure. It is a good indicator of "HEART FITNESS" not muscle fitness, and the fitter your heart the more oxygen will go to your muscles when you need it most!
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I'm just curious, what is your resting heart rate. I'm doing observation hours for a PT degree and working with inpatient we looked at a lot of HR and % O2. My resting is right around 51 bpm if i really slow down and 60 for average sitting and chatting. is either of these more accepted as "resting"?