What's your resting heart rate?

[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.

[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."

[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.

[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. (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! )

[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.

[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...

[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.

I forgot to add I max out at around 191.