Also a funny thing happened. My heart rate when I wake is generally 58- 63 beats per minute - so nice and low. It goes up to high seventies/ low eighties during the working day (due to ordinary stress, I guess). Before I went out running today it was actually 92 beats per minutes, so high, especially for me. I wasn’t stressed and I’d had a lazy day. The only explanation was that I drank a lot yesterday, having not drank for a little bit (but I went running almost 24 hours after that alcohol intake). Then, during the run, my heart rate *dropped* to the low eighties throughout. And then it went up to the low nineties a few minutes after I stopped running! I know that my pulse measurements are accurate because I’ve crossed checked them with different devices. I suppose it all has to do with running being relaxing, although, as I say, I don’t feel particularly stressed today - if anything calmer than usual.
I suppose taking the last two paragraphs together, the message is to run faster. I’ve never had my heart rate go higher than 84 bpm when running, anD I guess that is not really cardiac exercise.
Damn it though, I like slow running! It’s enjoyable!
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That last sentence says it all, running is to be enjoyed, us normal runners don't go out to run all out and collapse after a 5K run, you enjoyed that run, congratulations on completing your first 5k.
I know, right? I’m using the InPulse app which generally matches the heart rate measurements my mum’s blood pressure machine (which also measures heart rate) gives me. It’s just possible that I’m somehow holding the phone with the app on it wrong while running, but it would have to be always, and I don’t think I am. Also, I have vague memories of my heart rate going up quite a bit on the treadmill a few years ago while I *warmed down*.
I’d like the cheapest available one that measures heart rate, Distance, and, ideally ‘distance’ when you are running on the spot. You wouldn’t have a recommendation, would you?
There is absolutely no need to push yourself over hard to build your cardio fitness, but a bpm of low 80s does seem extremely low.........a range of less than 30bpm between resting and exercising is very narrow.
Our resting HR, maximum HR and therefore our HR range, is very individual and if you keep running then it will almost definitely move towards a healthy range
Of course, I was running outside and otherwise I was inside, and the cold does slow your heart rate. I was sweating fairly heavily though, and I felt my blood pressure go down as I eventually slowed to a walk. It felt like I was exerting myself during the run.
I have no idea why your range is reading so low, but I would suspect the method of measurement. Apparently some devices lock onto footfall, rather than HR, so give an erroneous result.
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