Resting heart rate

[Trev]

Shit Reggie. Are you sure you're alive?
I'm no expert but that seems very low. I'd have expected around 60.

[PeepeelaPew]

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[Karlos]

I read somewhere over the weekend that Neil Armstrong's was 84 at all times. Point being that he was fairly relaxed no matter the circumstances.

You guys might want to get yourselves to the local emergency ward.

Just checked mine. 56. Time to self-diagnose on google.

<edit> according to this site, I'm an 'athlete':
http://www.topendsports.com/testing/hea ... -chart.htm

Cancel the ambulance boys, you're both fine.

[PeepeelaPew]

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[oldman]

Honestly fellas, the most likely answer to this is that you didn't count it correctly.

Resting heart rate in the 40's is considered super athlete, olympic style marathon runner in the peak of his/her fitness.

Do you have body/fat ratios in the 4-5% mark, (i.e. absolutely no visible fat anywhere on your body, pinch your skin right down to the muscle and you only get skin)

Resting heart rate in the high 30's = unlikely.

Sure you're not missing a beat, in the counting that is.

[alakaboo]

I do the same,Legion, but for low blood pressure. Cardiologist thinks I'm part turtle

My HR also doesn't increase much under exercise, actually drops under light aerobic exercise, but the volume pumped increases dramatically. Resting rate is high 60s, 80 after a double espresso, 40 when really fit.

A guy I used to play waterpolo with had a resting HR of 26, confirmed by AIS etc.

[PeepeelaPew]

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[Grooter]

Just calculated it as 66

Not bad considering age and general state of health

[Nick Carroll]

a low heart rate isn't of itself proof of some kind of mega aerobic fitness.

the measure of fitness relates to how quickly and efficiently the heart rate adjusts to layers of exercise.

if you can push out comfortably during intensive exercise to around 85/90% of your max heart rate, then return it quickly to normal after stopping the exercise, that's more of a gauge of a high fitness level.

If getting to 85/90% is a gut busting strain, and your heart rate only gets back to resting after 20mins or so, then you're pretty normal.

If you can't get to 85/90% at all without feeling close to Death, then you're kinda unfit but by no means extraordinary.

[Natho]

Yeh Nick is pretty much on the money. I had a full in depth fitness test and medical not long ago. What they were looking at was how quickly the rate recovered back to a normal resting rate after hitting around 90% max, not so much what the actual rate was.

[Trev]

Can someone explain the "90% max "

[alakaboo]

It is possible to work out your max HR physiologically, though a lot of people just use the approximation of 220 bpm - your age.
Could be 20 beats either side of that.

I've exceeded my theoretical max HR, it wasn't fun.

[Natho]

Trev, good question. Max heart rate really needs to be measured under a professional stress test by someone who knows what they are doing. Normaly measure by some sort of extended exercise test say on a treadmill for 20 minutes or so. Data is then collected and some formulas used to work out your max heart rate (you would think it would be simpler than that, but its not). Im no expert so can't explain in depth. 90% would then be 90% of that rate which in general would mean exercising for a period a bit below going flat out, depending on the person and their fitness.

[Dingus]

Mine was the same as yours Dino when I was riding bikes most days, with a standard 100km ride on the weekends, and the odd 150-200km ride thrown in monthly or so. Got the resting HR to 44/45 at the peak of it. So I reckon the treadly is helping you there.

Scared to know what the HR is is now, I've been largely inactive for months. The blood pressure has always been on the low side; I've had a couple of downs when giving blood/plasma - twice in the last 4 or 5 visits. Haven't been back since the last one.

[alakaboo]

Yeah, I don't give plasma anymore. (edit: platelets)
Last time I went they had the anticoagulant machine calibrated incorrectly, guy across from me went into some sort of arrest, he was one of the state's most frequent donors so it wasn't his first time. I almost blacked out, the whole row next to me blacked out.

[godsavetheking]

Miguel Indurain had a resting heart rate of 28bpm, which is one of the lowest ever recorded apparently. (He also had an 8 litre lung capacity, no wonder he was so frigging good)

[Rustt]

I've spent quite a bit of time hooked up to heart monitors, my resting heart rate is 48-50. Being in hospital for over a week and not allowed to do a thing, out of boredom I tried to see how slow I could get my heart beat, got it down to 36.

[steve shearer]

Whaddya reckon it gets up to when caught inside by a 6-8ft set?