What's your resting heart rate?

[spazzdog]

Age = 51.

RHR = 54

Walkin' around 70-80

Waking = 49-51

spazzdog

[KnottedYet]

caffiene is my FRIEND!!!!!

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.