Resting heart rate

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eaglesburg

Guest
My resting heart rate occasionally is 60-61 but almost all other times it is around 80. If I am sick it might go up to 90ish. I can't recall having anything in the range of 65-75. Why is this so?
 

MisterP

Hall of Fame
My resting heart rate occasionally is 60-61 but almost all other times it is around 80. If I am sick it might go up to 90ish. I can't recall having anything in the range of 65-75. Why is this so?

Are you overweight? I used to be about 60lbs over weight. Lost 40 of it and my resting heart rate went from 80s to high 50s low 60s.
 
Not sure what the fuss is about here? 60-100 is considered normal range, so yours varies within normal range, which is fairly typical.
 

LeeD

Bionic Poster
I spent most of my adult life at 5'10" and 140 lbs.
Resting heartrate always in the upper 60's, lower 70's even now.
Max around 170, but only for a short period.
Effective max rate around 120.
That's why Bjorn and Lance are such anomoly's.
 

WildVolley

Legend
My resting heart rate goes fairly low. If I measure it in the morning after a good night's sleep it will be in the low 50s, though when I've been really relaxed I've measured it at about 45.

Try to measure it on a morning when you aren't stressed out, like on a weekend, to get a more accurate measure.
 

r2473

G.O.A.T.
^^I'm still low 40's first thing in the morning and mid 40's during the day. 10-20 years ago both numbers were 10 bpm lower. I used to see 30, 32, or 34 bpm on the machine when I sold plasma in college. Lowest I ever measured myself was 28 bpm.

By the way, all numbers are even because I tested for 30 seconds and doubled it.
 

r2473

G.O.A.T.
My resting heart rate occasionally is 60-61 but almost all other times it is around 80. If I am sick it might go up to 90ish. I can't recall having anything in the range of 65-75. Why is this so?

This is pretty normal. My resting rate (having sat still for a minute or more), will be 46 or so. If I start walking around, it goes into the 60's or 70's right away.
 

Ash_Smith

Legend
I did a 3 day heart rate variance test back in November to look at sympathetic/para-sympathetic nervous system balance during a stress task and my resting heart rate came out at 42bpm avg for the course of those 3 days.

Interestingly under the most stressful situation for me during those 3 days (there was no physical activity/training allowed during the test) it peaked at 170ish and was routinely around 150bpm purely through adrenaline.
 

snvplayer

Hall of Fame
My resting heart rate occasionally is 60-61 but almost all other times it is around 80. If I am sick it might go up to 90ish. I can't recall having anything in the range of 65-75. Why is this so?


When you are sick, your body is working extra to fight off the illness and to meet the demands of normal/daily functions. To support this, the heart has to pump more blood throughout the body; hence the higher heart rate.

Normal heart rate is considered between 60-100, so heart rate in 90s when you are sick would make sense (borderline normal)

I am sure your heart has beat in the range of 65-75, you just haven't come across it.

If you want to learn more about it, google "Cardiac Output"
 
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eaglesburg

Guest
Are you overweight? I used to be about 60lbs over weight. Lost 40 of it and my resting heart rate went from 80s to high 50s low 60s.

I'm not overweight.
I'm just confused why there is such a big fluctuation. Usually it is 80 then occasionally drops to 60. The one time I got 60 was in the middle of the day when I had been walking around too.
 

WildVolley

Legend
^^I'm still low 40's first thing in the morning and mid 40's during the day. 10-20 years ago both numbers were 10 bpm lower. I used to see 30, 32, or 34 bpm on the machine when I sold plasma in college. Lowest I ever measured myself was 28 bpm.

By the way, all numbers are even because I tested for 30 seconds and doubled it.

That's really low, but you do endurance training, don't you?

I was surprised that mine was low (athlete range for my age according to some website) because most of my exercise these days is walking and playing tennis. Perhaps the rate is somewhat genetic or a hold-over from when I used to train sprints and be more active.
 

WildVolley

Legend
Can you lower your HR by relaxing your body? My HR drops to the low 50s when driving.

Definitely. If you have one of those monitors you can watch the rate change around just by relaxing.

If I just think about playing tennis I can see the rate go up on the heart rate monitor I have.
 

r2473

G.O.A.T.
^^It's a hold over. I don't run much anymore. Maybe 30-45 minutes a few days a week over lunch. But I used to run a lot and at respectable pacing.

This type of training will change your body physically. Which is nice to have "in the bank" as I get older.
 
My resting heart rate record low is 38. At the moment it varies between 43-52, depending on how strenuous exercises I've had recently. I think my low heart rate was developed when I was young and did lots of long distance cycling. During the last 2 years or so, I've done minimal amounts of training, outside of tennis, but HR has still stayed at around 45.

I think heart rate and blood pressure are somewhat related. I also have very low blood pressure.
 

chrischris

G.O.A.T.
My resting heart rate record low is 38. At the moment it varies between 43-52, depending on how strenuous exercises I've had recently. I think my low heart rate was developed when I was young and did lots of long distance cycling. During the last 2 years or so, I've done minimal amounts of training, outside of tennis, but HR has still stayed at around 45.

I think heart rate and blood pressure are somewhat related. I also have very low blood pressure.

How big is your heart ,have you had it measured?
whats your blood pressure?
 

r2473

G.O.A.T.
I haven't measured heart size, how do they measure it?

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TennisMD

Professional
My resting heart rate occasionally is 60-61 but almost all other times it is around 80. If I am sick it might go up to 90ish. I can't recall having anything in the range of 65-75. Why is this so?

So what type of training do you do? The lowest HR usually belong to the distance athletes marathoners, Tour de France type cyclists, cross country skiers
 

Talker

Hall of Fame
Used to have about 40ish.

But went up around 250ish when laying down the hammer. Could keep it at that rate around 15-20 minutes without really having a tough time.

In my mid fifties I still got it up around 220 for ten minutes or so and still was not pushing it like I could.
I could have went on longer and harder but it scared me.

These days I play tennis midday in the mid nineties outside for three hours, no problem.

HR is about 60.
 

Fuji

Legend
My resting heart rate is in the 46-50 range depending on the day. Haven't measured it first thing in the morning when I wake up. Would guess it is probably low 40s? No clue what my max is, I've never measured it when I'm pushing all out.

-Fuji
 

r2473

G.O.A.T.
But went up around 250ish when laying down the hammer. Could keep it at that rate around 15-20 minutes without really having a tough time.

Sustaining 250 bpm for 20 minutes is nothing short of miraculous.

How long did it take you to build up to that? When I did HIIT, 1 minute in the 250 bpm range killed me.
 

purple-n-gold

Hall of Fame
Sustaining 250 bpm for 20 minutes is nothing short of miraculous.

How long did it take you to build up to that? When I did HIIT, 1 minute in the 250 bpm range killed me.

Yes,, 200bpm will not be sustained for long. Doubt < 1min. At sustained >=170bpm you're at a serious SVT and only an elite conditioned athlete could sustain it for long. < 5min constant. AT 250bpm for 20 mins you will need medical attention fyi.
 

r2473

G.O.A.T.
^^And I'm actually mistaken. I was on the elliptical doing HIIT, and the 250 I remembered was the machine estimating that I was doing 250 strides per minute. I didn't have a HRM on, and I really doubt I was in the 250 bpm range. Probably more like 220 bpm at a guess.

But when I was running distance, I did wear a HRM on occasion and sustained 160-165 bpm (and that was very normal intensity for me on hard endurance runs, but not the pace I ran everyday). That was some "good running pain" and these runs were the "real workouts" in my programs (as well as intervals).
 

Devil_dog

Hall of Fame
Mine is usually around 55.

I read on another thread that Andy Murray's RHR was 37. Probably fairly typical for most tennis pros is my guess.
 

Fuji

Legend
Mine is usually around 55.

I read on another thread that Andy Murray's RHR was 37. Probably fairly typical for most tennis pros is my guess.

I'd hazard a guess that the mid 30's would be average for most professional athletes.

-Fuji
 

Maui19

Hall of Fame
Mine is typically 44 in the mornings after coffee. It is not surprising to see it in the high 30s from time to time. If I am hung over or have over-trained, it may be closer to 50.
 

Talker

Hall of Fame
Sustaining 250 bpm for 20 minutes is nothing short of miraculous.

How long did it take you to build up to that? When I did HIIT, 1 minute in the 250 bpm range killed me.

It took about three years, doing martial arts.
The instructors in Chung Moo Quan have injured quite a few students by pushing them so hard.
At times doing "circle walking" you have to stay down and walk with knees just one inch off the ground, back straight and arms out for 20 minutes to one hour.
Other times you do things like one leg lunges, 250 times per leg similar to this, no stopping:

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WildVolley

Legend
Once again, this thread shows how unrepresentative internet discussion of things are compared to the "average" person. I thought my resting rate in the 50s was fairly low just by looking at charts on the internet, but it seems I have one of the faster resting heart rates in this thread.

I'm also amazed at the 250bpm rate. I know if the rate goes too high, that the movement of oxygen to the blood is compromised. What rate does that happen at?
 

Talker

Hall of Fame
Yes,, 200bpm will not be sustained for long. Doubt < 1min. At sustained >=170bpm you're at a serious SVT and only an elite conditioned athlete could sustain it for long. < 5min constant. AT 250bpm for 20 mins you will need medical attention fyi.

200 bpm was not stressfull on bikes and elliptical monitors at the gym, this was for 40 minutes timed. I was forty two at the time.
I could of went higher but was concerned healthwise.
 

Talker

Hall of Fame
Clark Kent you are amazing.
It's not amazing really, I was doing 6.3 MPH on the treadmill to get it that high. Not really fast.
More it shows that I can't use regular bpm guidelines and there is probably something not right with my system.
 

mikeler

Moderator
Once again, this thread shows how unrepresentative internet discussion of things are compared to the "average" person. I thought my resting rate in the 50s was fairly low just by looking at charts on the internet, but it seems I have one of the faster resting heart rates in this thread.

I'm also amazed at the 250bpm rate. I know if the rate goes too high, that the movement of oxygen to the blood is compromised. What rate does that happen at?

Ha, I was proud of hitting 50 the other day.
 

r2473

G.O.A.T.
200 bpm was not stressfull on bikes and elliptical monitors at the gym, this was for 40 minutes timed. I was forty two at the time.
I could of went higher but was concerned healthwise.

It's not amazing really, I was doing 6.3 MPH on the treadmill to get it that high. Not really fast.

6.3 MPH is 9:30 per mile pace roughly.

I think you must be confusing bpm with something else. There is pretty much no way you would be at 200 BMP at that pace.
 

Mac33

Professional
Wore a HRM for the first time while playing a 10 point tie break.

This was after playing a 6-7 set.

My average heart rate was around 120. It peaked at 139 or 140.

My friend thought that was pretty low.

In the first set that he won 7-6,his heart rate was averaging around 150,peaking at 172.

I wanted to see if I could get mine up high so I did three 60 metre full paced sprints jogging for about 40 metres between them.

I got the HRM to 170.

I'm 50 and fit I think.
 

ollinger

G.O.A.T.
^^ bad idea to see how high one can get one's HR up to. The coronary arteries that feed the heart muscle feed during diastole, and diastole at very high HR becomes so short that the arteries don't fill well. So pushing your heart rate that high at age 50 will greatly increase risk of a heart attack, perhaps the next time?
 

Ronaldo

Bionic Poster
^^ bad idea to see how high one can get one's HR up to. The coronary arteries that feed the heart muscle feed during diastole, and diastole at very high HR becomes so short that the arteries don't fill well. So pushing your heart rate that high at age 50 will greatly increase risk of a heart attack, perhaps the next time?

Or at least a stroke? Better to give than receive, eh?
 

justRick

Rookie
I'm 54 and just had a physical. The nurse and the doctor checked my RHR and they found it to be 41 & 43 respectively, blood pressure was 120/70.

As for my diet, I'm not a health **** or anything, but I follow some basic guidelines. As for fitness, I up'd my cardio workouts but still do strength training. I think a lot of it is genetic. I'm 6ft and lean (42 long)
 

Ronaldo

Bionic Poster
I'm 54 and just had a physical. The nurse and the doctor checked my RHR and they found it to be 41 & 43 respectively, blood pressure was 120/70.

As for my diet, I'm not a health **** or anything, but I follow some basic guidelines. As for fitness, I up'd my cardio workouts but still do strength training. I think a lot of it is genetic. I'm 6ft and lean (42 long)

RHR may be higher if 42 long was your belt size.
 
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