
Originally Posted by
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.
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!
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