Resting heart rate

Turbo-87

G.O.A.T.
I recently had a checkup and my resting heart rate was 52. The nurse said, "Wow, you must be a runner." Honestly, I don't do any cardio and the exercise I get is two singles matches a week in tennis and 90 minutes of weightlifting four times a week. I am sure my heart rate gets up there while lifting but certainly not what you'd see from someone running or doing other cardio specific things. I should have asked the doctor why mine is low when I don't really do a lot of cardio training. I have since started using the Samsung Health app since their phones have a pulse sensor on them and my resting heart rate has always been 50-54.

I just thought that was weird.
 

Raul_SJ

G.O.A.T.
I want to reduce my resting HR. It was pretty high. It was around 85 bpm. Think its down to the 70s now.

I am following the advice of doing long steady cardio. Once it drops to the 60s, I can then comfortably begin interval training. Was told that it is difficult to do interval training when resting HR is already high.
 

Pete Player

Hall of Fame
45-50 for me, as an adult never have had it above 60.

However the max bpm is getting lower by the year. I have not done the max beat run for a couple of years, but in a bicycle test I maxed at 174 and felt, I got still some left in me. Got excellent VO2max for my age and was happy, cause didn’t get sore ore nothing after the test.


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WildVolley

Legend
I recently had a checkup and my resting heart rate was 52. The nurse said, "Wow, you must be a runner." ... I should have asked the doctor why mine is low when I don't really do a lot of cardio training. I have since started using the Samsung Health app since their phones have a pulse sensor on them and my resting heart rate has always been 50-54.

I just thought that was weird.

In the morning, I can sometimes have a resting heart rate in the upper 40s. It would be higher at the doctors office. The charts online say I'm in the highly trained athlete range for my age.

I don't think that you have to be an endurance athlete to have engaging in sports develop a lower resting heart rate. I played a lot of different sports as a kid, but in college was a long-jumper and sprinter.

Unless you consider playing tennis an endurance sport, I have engaged in very little endurance training as an adult. I believe that only endurance training builds the heart is a myth. High intensity activity probably exercises the heart just as well.
 

r2473

G.O.A.T.
Lowest I ever recorded by a 3rd party was 30 bpm. It was done by the nurse before I sold plasma in college. So this wasn't true resting heart rate.

Lowest I ever recorded on myself was 28 bpm. So, basically the same as above. Notice these are both even numbers. That is because the normal way of doing this is taking a 30 second measurement and doubling it.

These days I'm mid 40's bpm. Even into the mid 50's at times.
 

Turbo-87

G.O.A.T.
Interesting. I guess I was just under the impression that having low blood pressure meant you were in shape in a cardiovascular sense. I know I am not. :)
 
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Deleted member 754093

Guest
Low blood pressure is not related to low heart rate. Your cardiac output = heart rate x stroke volume. MAP = HR x TPR. Low low heart rates in people like endurance runners result from the heart becoming more efficient at pumping blood, hence stroke volume increases.

Mine is usually in the 50s
 

jacob22

Professional
A resting HR in the 50s is low normal. Doesn't necessarily mean you're in great aerobic conditioning. HR in the 30-40s may come from endurance training or if you're elderly from a degenerative conduction system and need a pacemaker. Medications can cause bradycardia as well, in addition to an underactive thyroid condition.

While sleeping, many people have heart rates that drop into the 40s and have short pauses.
 

Pete Player

Hall of Fame
Stress and overtraining condition will rise HR and may even happen despite having a day off. You shall not recover from excercise.

If getting over enthutiastic on physical training it can happen to anybody, yet the absolute fitness were not that high. Normally, however you get too sore to practice in early stages of your progress, that enough recovery time is evident.

Basically the step up in fitness doesn’t happen in the workout, but as a result during recovery. And if you skip the recovery workouts, it is not that unheard that your overall condition will not rise.


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Hmgraphite1

Hall of Fame
Stress and overtraining condition will rise HR and may even happen despite having a day off. You shall not recover from excercise.

If getting over enthutiastic on physical training it can happen to anybody, yet the absolute fitness were not that high. Normally, however you get too sore to practice in early stages of your progress, that enough recovery time is evident.

Basically the step up in fitness doesn’t happen in the workout, but as a result during recovery. And if you skip the recovery workouts, it is not that unheard that your overall condition will not rise.


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By recovery workouts, are these the ones when your still sore and not wait till you feel back to normal?
 

Pete Player

Hall of Fame
By recovery workouts, are these the ones when your still sore and not wait till you feel back to normal?

Yes, low intensity, not too long and concentrating on mobility and stretching. Just, that you get your blood circulating and only slightly warmed up.

After a hard workout, a match or alike, you’d need to cool down as well as warming up before the game. Stopping right, when the match is over will leave you more sore, than if you take a 15-20 min jogg or wattbike at around 110 - 120 bpm and flush your muscles.

One to two hrs afterwards, it’s adviced to stretch.


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Hmgraphite1

Hall of Fame
Thanks going to start doing this all the time. Did it once yesterday a n d it helped.
I would find in the past laying around a few days for the pains to go away. Never got anywhere.
 

Nadalgaenger

G.O.A.T.
Lowest I ever recorded by a 3rd party was 30 bpm. It was done by the nurse before I sold plasma in college. So this wasn't true resting heart rate.

Lowest I ever recorded on myself was 28 bpm. So, basically the same as above. Notice these are both even numbers. That is because the normal way of doing this is taking a 30 second measurement and doubling it.

These days I'm mid 40's bpm. Even into the mid 50's at times.
Those are extremely healthy numbers! You’re a very fit guy obviously!

I heard that Borg was around 32 BPM in his prime. Lance Armstrong was around there as well.

I’m right around 60 and mid 50s on my very best days.
 

Soul

Semi-Pro
My resting heart rate is in the 40s typically. At least it was in the past. Don't know where it is now. My father is similar. I used to think that excellent until I watched a show saying people with low resting heart rates are more likely to be mad criminals! Now I tend to keep hush about the low BPM. I wonder if I should happen to go on a sudden criminal spree if I can blame it on being in shape due to tennis and other exercises. :p

Natural born killers? Low heart rates associated with violent crime
Bioscience
Scientists have discovered a link between low resting heart rates and criminal behaviour, but tagging future criminals is a dangerous game

http://www.alphr.com/bioscience/100...low-heart-rates-associated-with-violent-crime
 
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