Resting Heart Rate

[ss017]

Comment below your resting heart rate.

Mine is around 70. Is that good or could it be lower?

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Mines 64

[Red18]

Morning ss017. Funny you should ask this. Did mine last night it was 60 beats per minute. I think anything between 60 and 100 is fine. Have a good day

[Calliope153]

Mine's 74...... on beta blocker and Ramipril. I was also told the same as Red18.

[Healthyheart1]

Mine is 48 beats per minute. I know its low, I do get occasional dizziness but that's put down to vertigo. I'm not on anything for blood pressure and I'm also on the usual meds for angina.

[LMor]

Mines around 90.

[Maisie2014]

Mines 54. I don’t know if it’s good or bad.

[Pete1]

My historical norm is 40 bpm (28 whilst asleep). Blood pressure is normal. Lifetime athlete. All tests came back normal and cardiologist/haematologist said everything is fine. I do have dizzy spells if I stand up too quickly and have fainted occasionally, so have to be careful. It's strange though, that I feel absolutely great when exercising but quite poorly at rest.

[ChicagoGirl1961 in reply to Pete1]

Low 40's for me, I don't know what it is when my sleeping. I've been an avid runner for 15 plus years. What athletic endeavours do you participate in? You say you feel great when exercising, and I'm betting your heart is in perfect rhythm when exercising, and perhaps sometimes not when at rest. My opinion comes from my own personal experience as my heart is always in perfect rhythm when exercising, but at rest the occasional PVC throughout the day although I hardly notice them. It is only on those rare days when PVC's are bit more frequent that I feel a bit unwell. Unfortunately this is quite common amongst long term endurance athletes. I've worn a holter monitor and PVC's were harmless as per my cardiologist. I've read studies that indicate long term endurance athletes are four times more likely to develop Afib than the general population. Our hearts physiologically adapt to accommodate the demands that endurance activities require to do the extraordinary athletic things that endurance athletes accomplish. I think the increased risk of developing afib for endurance athletes up is real, but the benefits outweigh the risks in my opinion,.

[Pete1 in reply to ChicagoGirl1961]

I've done all kinds of sport eversince I was a toddler. Triathlons was my thing but also running and cycling. I've not done any competative sport since last year when I almost collapsed after a half-marathon. I've not heard of the term PVCs but it sounds like an arrhythmia condition. Tests did reveal that I have a heart block. Doc is happy for me to carry on as normal but if I collapse then I should get myself to a hospital immediatly. Happily nothing has happened.

[ChicagoGirl1961 in reply to Pete1]

PVC is premature ventricular contraction. I think the half marathon is very taxing if you are competing and running to finish in the best time that you are physically capable of, I personally found it more challenging than a marathon since if competing rather than just running it you are essentially running at well over 90, possibly 95% of maximum heart rate for well over an hour. Perhaps nearly collapsing had something to do with electrolyte imalance. I don't compete any longer as my body breaks down if I train to hard, so I am content to train at a slower pace so I can keep going at it injury free.

[Pete1 in reply to ChicagoGirl1961]

Thanks for the info. Yes I do normally race at 95% but that was a few years ago now. Leading into this particular race I had been struggling with my fitness in that I always seemed to be tired, despite only doing short training runs. I was expecting the race to be a struggle so I decided to run to a much lower heart-rate. But even this was tiresome so reverted to walking after half-way. Everything went downhill from there. Looking back, I had been suffering from a run of consecutive viral symptoms but stupidly continued to train - albeit with reduced intensity. Yeah so I should have called it a day there and then. I'm not as young as I used to be!

[ChicagoGirl1961 in reply to Pete1]

A few years ago I got worried because my pace was really falling off. I began struggling to run even a 9:00 pace and over the period

of about 6 months my pace had fallen off to nearly a 10:45 per mile. I went and had blood work and thyroid came back at 4.2, sill within normal range but in years past has always come in about at 1.1. I started taking Synthroid and within about 6 weeks I was back to my old self.

[Pete1 in reply to ChicagoGirl1961]

I forgot to mention that in the early days of my problems the initial blood test revealed an almost zero white blood cell count. However over the months it gradually recovered back to normal as I also felt much better too and could resume some tentative light training.

[Shoshov]

mines is 51

[SpiritoftheFloyd]

Mine is merrily chugging along at 58, at least I think it is, I hope it is. Now I've become paranoid - what if it's pretending to be merrily chugging along?

[Ianc2 in reply to SpiritoftheFloyd]

They haven't told you that you are a hologram then?

[SpiritoftheFloyd in reply to Ianc2]

What! you mean like Arnold J Rimmer?

[bobaxford]

According to Fitbit mines typically around 55

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It depends on your age, build, height etc etc. I am 69 and had a triple heart bypass and my doctor told me (one year on) her expectations for me is 150/90. However my average sits almost consistently at 142/70. Plus as many will tell you - we are all different and again as many will tell you - we are all getting no younger so things will change, like where is the need to have body hairs that pop out of the top of ones ear for? and why the need for the Forrest in ones nose? Finally, if your doctor is not concerned, why should you? Deaths after heart surgery do tend to have an adverse effect on a doctors (GP) career.

[HHH2017]

Mine is 59/60 since being on betablockers. I believe 60 -100 is considered good so quite a wide range really 🤷🏻‍♀️

[jon2018]

mines 40 ish. love to say im a athlete and do 10 mile runs but im so tired i find it an effort to walk into our village.im 5 months post ha and stent and was doing ok building up but i overdid it and it hasnt half knocked me back. now a bit frightened to push it again.