What's your resting heart rate?

[kelownagirl]

I haven't paid much attention to this up until now but I know my RHR was around 80+ a year ago. I have started checking it first things in the morning this week and it seems to be around 68 or so. (I am 47 in case that matters.) What is the ideal? What is yours?

[Bikingmomof3]

Mine went from 99 :eek: to 50. :)

[VeloVT]

44. But climbs frighteningly high very quickly and stays that way when I exercise.

[kelownagirl]

Liza, from what I've read, it's the speed at which it drops that's important.

[spindizzy]

Liza;

Kelowna girl is correct. As you exercise, the heart becomes more muscular and efficient, therefore it doesn't have to work as hard, thus your RHR. My RHR is 50 (I'm 48) When I exercise, I also can get it very high, quickly - my du last year, during my run - I was 196. But it plummets quickly when the intensity drops.

My FD made me go for ECG, heart is fine, so I don't worry about high HR.

[GLC1968]

Mine's 44 (and I'm 39). I'm the opposite of most in that my HR remains low, even during intense exercise. The highest I've ever seen was 174 and I was on the verge of passing out at the time. Normally for me, a tough long hill where I am breathing hard has me at about 168...which I know is low compared to most. I don't know if that's good or not, but I've always also had low BP and stellar cholesterol, so I think I'm doing OK. :D

[HappyAnika]

Mine's 45, I'll be 31 in 2 months. I think my max is somewhere in the low 190's, but this is just conjecture based on looking at formulas and seeing how I feel at different levels. My hr can get high quickly. How quickly it drops seems to depend on what I was doing (cycling vs. running), how long it was elevated, and whether I'm stressed, happy, tired, feeling good, etc . . . Just got the hrm a few weeks ago, so I'm still in the learning stages.

[RoadRaven]

My resting HR is 39
My standing-but-not-walking-much HR is around 70-80bpm
My max is about 184

After a race my HR drops from around 158-170 (depending on what race and waht type of finish) to about 115 within about 2 minutes of gentle riding. But I have to be sitting down before it will drop under 100bpm.

I am 42 in August


I find watching my HR an interesting and useful way to measure my own fitness and a curiosity to see what others do.

When I am sick, or about to get sick, my HR does not want to go up - a good predictor.


Spindizzy - what/who is FD?

[wavedancer]

My resting heart rate is 56.
My max is about 180. Steep intervals on the mtb get it up to 170+. I can keep going in the 160s, 170 requires a stop and wheeze if sustained for more than a minute or so. Once it recovers to the 140s I am good to go up the next hill.

I had a stress test after the first stop-wheeze-must-lie-down episode and all was well!

I just turned 58.

[KnottedYet]

My resting right now is 76. (that's with 3 cokes and a cup of coffee on board!!!)

Oooh, me so healthy!:p ;)

[horsemom]

Mine is close to 80 most days. I am 46, quite fit, and do endurance events. It is just 'me' and no doctors (including my husband, ok, he is a veterinarian...) has ever worried about it.

Laura

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

My resting right now is 76. (that's with 3 cokes and a cup of coffee on board!!!)



"Coffee. You can sleep when you're dead."

(one of my favorite refrig. magnets)

Don't get between me and my espresso latte.

[DarcyInOregon]

My RHR is 50-54. I am age 53, and I am a fit and fun cyclist. I cycle every day (just about.)

My heart rate drops fast. I don't know what my maximum is. My heart rate when I cycle keeps going lower and lower as I get fitter over time. It used to be my HR was in the 150s when I was climbing a steep hill. Now it rarely goes past 148. When I crest the hill, before I am even half way down the other side my heart rate is back into the 120s. When I am pedaling on the flats into a full wind with everything I have, my heart rate may drop into the 100 to 120 range. It means I don't burn as many calories as other cyclists for the same ride. I finally turned the beeper off on my HRM because there isn't anything I can do to get the heart rate higher, so no use it beeping at me to tell me my heart rate is too low for a cardio workout. I am not going to start cycling the equivalent of Mt Everest every day just to try to get my heart rate up higher. I need to burn the calories so as to lose the excess body fat, therefore my solution is to cycle every day, to increase my distances, and to select routes with steeper climbs.

Darcy

[aicabsolut]

I think mine is 54. Used to be 60 until I started cycling.. and I was in shape before. Keeps dropping, but slowly. I can spend an entire crit in 185-195 range (don't think I've gone over 195 since I got my monitor). A hard effort ride or TT will keep me over 175 most of the time...168 feels like "recovery." haha. I'm 26.

[Tater]

Mine is right about 50. Well, unless I have caffiene. If I did what Knot did, I'd be bouncing off the walls and have a heartbeat like a jack hammer! :eek: :p Needless to say, I don't typically do caffienated stuff.

[spazzdog]

Age = 51.

RHR = 54

Walkin' around 70-80

Waking = 49-51

spazzdog

[KnottedYet]

caffiene is my FRIEND!!!!!:D :D :D :D

[aicabsolut]

"Coffee. You can sleep when you're dead."

(one of my favorite refrig. magnets)

Don't get between me and my espresso latte.

Caribou Coffee's slogan is "Life is short. Stay awake for it." :D

[RoadRaven]

Just reading through these posts and I wonder if all of you realise that you should take your resting heart rate when you are lying down, completely inactive.

If you read your resting heart when you are sitting, it is not your resting heart rate, it is your sitting heart rate. Your body is working at keeping itself balanced and upright.

Some people wear their HR monitors when they are sleeping and read the lowest setting form the whole night when they wake. Mine doesn't do that, so I just lay completely still on the floor in the living room and got one of my sons to watch my HR. I've redone it several times and got the same reading each time, or a beat above.

Have fun finding your resting, resting HRs :)

[7rider]

I was thinking this same thing, RR.
My DH keeps a small HRM on his nightstand. It's like a pocketwatch and he picked it up from Performance. In the a.m., before he gets up, he'll grab it and get a read.
I think about doing that, but haven't in some time. Last time I checked (last summer?) it was about 60 or 62.
My HR is always about 10 bpm higher than his for a given effort. Sitting aside the bike in the driveway, not going anywhere - just waiting, my Garmin will show my HR at about 95-100. I can't pedal my bike without my HR going over 150. :mad:

[KnottedYet]

Just reading through these posts and I wonder if all of you realise that you should take your resting heart rate when you are lying down, completely inactive.

If you read your resting heart when you are sitting, it is not your resting heart rate, it is your sitting heart rate. Your body is working at keeping itself balanced and upright.

Have fun finding your resting, resting HRs :)

I didn't know that! My 76 bpm is "resting" my butt on a chair with a ton and a half of CAFFEEEEEINE coursing thru my poor innocent veins!

Guess that doesn't qualify as resting heart rate.:p (and I'm up now and drinking my first pot of coffee, so I'll have to try to find my real resting heartrate tomorrow morning before I get up. Maybe it's really low and sexy!:D )

[limewave]

Well, at the doctor yesterday it was at 47. But awhile ago I went in and was laying down and they took it, it was at 39. I max out at around 190 or 195. I'm 28 years old.

[kelownagirl]

Thanks for all your input ladies. This is really interesting to me and I see I have a long way to go. I have taken mine for the past 5 mornings and it has been 68, 66, 68, 70, and 72 this morning. Not sure why it is going up but I was out late last night, drank wine, and also did a hard ride yesterday.

[Bikingmomof3]

Just reading through these posts and I wonder if all of you realise that you should take your resting heart rate when you are lying down, completely inactive.

Yes, I did indeed realise when I posted that mine was a sitting heart rate of 50. Considering it used to be 99 I am content. :) My lying down resting HR is in the 30s. :cool:

I forgot to add I max out at around 191.

[CR400]

Wow some of you ladies real amaze me with your low HR.

I'm 29 usually it is 60-63 when I take my BP in the morning. The lowest I have ever seen is 54. However, my max is 220 so big gap between the two numbers. LT is 194. I think that maybe resting heart rate is somehow reflective of max potiential as well. Of course I don't know if it has even been studied. I mean I have almost 160 beats between my max and my normal resting heart rate.

[RoadRaven]

I have taken mine for the past 5 mornings and it has been 68, 66, 68, 70, and 72 this morning. Not sure why it is going up but I was out late last night, drank wine, and also did a hard ride yesterday.

If you don't sleep well...
If you have had caffiene...
If you have been drinking...
If you have been riding...

These things will elevate your heart rate for hours past when the sleeplessness/cuppa/party/ride happened.

A really hard race, or a tough century may have your HR elevated for 2, 2 1/2 days...

[RoadRaven]

Wow some of you ladies real amaze me with your low HR.
I'm 29 usually it is 60-63 when I take my BP in the morning.

I understand that younger people (like yourself - still in your 20's) generally will have higher resting HRs, and higher max HRs.

Hence me (an "oldie" at almost 42) having a resting HR of 39 and maxing out around 184... I rarely get there when riding though, my intense racing max is high 170s. A hill might occasionally push me over 180.

I am prepared to be corrected on this if I have understood incorrectly :p

[MINIskirt]

44. But climbs frighteningly high very quickly and stays that way when I exercise.


Liza;

Kelowna girl is correct. As you exercise, the heart becomes more muscular and efficient, therefore it doesn't have to work as hard, thus your RHR. My RHR is 50 (I'm 48) When I exercise, I also can get it very high, quickly - my du last year, during my run - I was 196. But it plummets quickly when the intensity drops.

My FD made me go for ECG, heart is fine, so I don't worry about high HR.

That makes me feel so much better!! I check my HR periodically when I'm on the treadmill and it's always around 180, which is off the little chart that's on the treadmill.

During a walk interval, though, my HR drops from 180 to 160 within 60 seconds, sometimes as low as 155.


I'll have to try to remember to check my RHR tomorrow morning. :)

[HillSlugger]

OK, I guess I don't know my resting HR, but my quiet/sitting HR is below 50, typically between 42 and 45. I'm 46yo. My HR has dropped quite a bit in the last year or so, in fact, at the doctor on Monday the nurse was concerned because it was 42 :cool:

[Crankin]

My resting HR in the AM, before getting out of bed is usually between 55 and 68. Walking around it's usually between 70 and 80, sitting quietly, it's around 68. Mine goes up fast, stays at around 130-145 for most of my rides. I'm 53, which puts that at 80-95 % of my max, but from what i now understand, that's for an untrained person. I haven't seen a HR above 155 in a couple of years. When I first started cycling, I would get up to 170-180, on a climb. My HR goes down quickly to 115-120 after a climb and stays around 130 on sustained flats, unless I am doing intervals.
One thing I notice is that my HR is very sensitive to changes in my body. When i am getting sick or sick, my RHR is up at least 10 bpm. It also used to be this way before my period, when i still had those. I am also a caffeine addict, but I try to drink tea before a big ride, because it does raise my HR a lot, not to mention upset my stomach before a ride.

[hellosunshine]

resting 51
max last year 180 on a hillclimb race

age 40!


found latterly(since a bike training camp)im riding about 10 beats lower than when i was last year-i think im tired-told me coach who told me to throw my monitor away.



aint so sure if this is suchy good advice!!????



when i had my wisdom teeth pulled out i was resting 61 for a week-pshows that all sorts of impacts have an affect on it.

[RoadRaven]

found latterly(since a bike training camp)im riding about 10 beats lower than when i was last year-i think im tired-told me coach who told me to throw my monitor away.

As you get fitter, your heart rate will work a lower rate at what you perceive to be a similar level...

That is (just pulling numbers from the air here as an example)...

... if you took 30 minutes to ride ten kms a year ago and your heart rate was 135bpm, then, after continued riding over the year you rode the same ten kms in the same weather conditions, you might find you can maintain 135bpm but finish those 10 kms in 20 or 25 minutes.

So your fitness level rises and your heart is more efficient.

Congrats, SunShine - this is what has happened for your heart.

Mebbe you should throw your coach away :p

[li10up]

Mebbe you should throw your coach away :p
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D