How fit are you? - resting heart beat

[KathyWoolfe]

I'm a Timelord, so which heart?

accumulalte both

[DBA_bloke]

accumulalte both

170 BPM - nothing to worry about.

[VectraMan]

I can't find a pulse. Should I be concerned?

[DBA_bloke]

I can't find a pulse. Should I be concerned?

No - it's perfectly normal.

[gables]

Am not convinced that resting heart beat is always a good indicator of fitness. Mines around 55 and I am not planning on running any marathons anytime soon. My old mans is around 48 and he smokes 20 a day so maybe its more of a genetic thing than fitness related.

There's probably genetics involved in what a person's lowest heart could ever be. But if you were to take an unfit person and measure their resting heart rate before and after a training program it will most likely come down as they get fitter. Mine's is 46 woohoo.

[IR35 Avoider]

Mine is about 60, I think. I do five times 23 minutes a week of rowing.

When I was 16 (and did several hours a week of rugby or swimming training) it was 85.

A friend at the time could swim a 4x50 medley and his would be back down to 55 within a minute of finishing. (He wasn't even a top swimmer, though he was better than me.)

[wendigo100]

Blimey, when I was doing athletics it was low thirties first thing in the morning. My "record" was 26.

It's a tad higher now I'll wager!

[gables]

Mine is about 60, I think. I do five times 23 minutes a week of rowing.

When I was 16 (and did several hours a week of rugby or swimming training) it was 85.

This makes sense, children's heart rates are higher until fully developed.

A friend at the time could swim a 4x50 medley and his would be back down to 55 within a minute of finishing. (He wasn't even a top swimmer, though he was better than me.)

I think recovery is in fact a better measure of fitness than absolute resting heart rate. There a step test you can do, something along the lines of:

1 - measure heart rate
2 - step up and down a box\step 12" for 3 minutes
3 - rest for 1.5 minutes
4 - measure heart rate

Subtract 4 from 1, the lower the number the better.

[NotAllThere]

1 - measure heart rate
2 - step up and down a box\step 12" for 3 minutes
3 - rest for 1.5 minutes
4 - measure heart rate

I think for most people round here, that'll be

step 3 - collapse in a heap, gasping for breath.
step 4 - go to pub to prop up mental health.

My rest heartbeat during the day is mid 70s. It has been for years, and I'm not overweight, don't have high blood pressure or high cholesterol, and take regular exercise.

[DBA_bloke]

I think for most people round here, that'll be

step 3 - collapse in a heap, gasping for breath.
step 4 - go to pub to prop up mental health.

My rest heartbeat during the day is mid 70s. It has been for years, and I'm not overweight, don't have high blood pressure or high cholesterol, and take regular exercise.

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