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 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.

[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!

[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! Needless to say, I don't typically do caffienated stuff.