What's your resting heart rate?

[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

[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.

[spazzdog]

Age = 51.

RHR = 54

Walkin' around 70-80

Waking = 49-51

spazzdog

[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]

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

[KnottedYet]

caffiene is my FRIEND!!!!!

[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

[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.