What is your resting heart rate?

EliseTK1

What is your average resting heart rate? How often do you exercise, and what types do you do? Has your resting heart rate changed over time?

I have always been in the low 60s, but the last couple years with increased exercise I'm averaging 53-54 BPM. Sometimes I get as low as 48-49. I started with marathon training a few years ago, but nowadays I mostly lift weights, walk, and spin. I do some type of exercise ~6 days a week.

I have a colleague who is very fit, exercises as much as I do, and has a resting heart rate in the 80-90 range. Now I'm curious about averages for everyone else.

E7mack96

mine is 70 or so. Weirdly, I can force it to the low 40s somehow.

sardelsa

Usually mine is 70-90.. similar to your colleague. It is high even when I'm lean and when I'm fit/doing a lot of cardio. I do suffer from anxiety so I think that plays a part.

Right now I am only lifting (no cardio) and it is actually a bit lower (I think in the 60s) because of the lack of daily stress/anxiety at the moment.

ccrdragon

I do road rides on a bike 5 days a week for my current exercise and my resting HR is 56 (according to my fitbit). I think the lowest I've had it - doing weights 3 days a week and vigorous cardio intervals 2 days a week) was 53 to 54.

Go_Deskercise

According to my Fitbit my resting heart rate is 62

mctorger90

mine is 54!

BrianSharpe

When I was running a lot more a few years ago it was 48, now it's in the mid 50s.

MohsenSALAH

It is called bradycardia, it is normal for athletes because heart muscles becomes so effective and also there is collaterals vessels which help in more oxygen and blood deliveries to the heart

heybales

43 couple weeks ago.
4 workouts weekly, all cardio right now - running and riding. Once house re-arranged lifting again.
Back at workouts for 2.5 months since almost 2 yrs off.
Was about 60-65 prior to starting again.
A diet causes a drop all on it's own usually.

And I'm talking real resting HR, morning before getting up after alarm wakeup and calming back down.
Not what say Fitbit would display as a restingHR, which for most is really not.

Lietchi

My Garmin says my resting heart rate, looking at the monthly average, has gone down from 55 to 52 from January till now. It does fluctuate a bit from day to day, during my period I've gone as low as 47.

I've been losing weight and exercising since August last year, my resting heart rate was probably mid 60's then, despite being inactive and at a BMI of 34.

I do cardio probably 3 times a week (mostly jogging, walking and indoor rowing), on top of lots of steps on days when I don't exercise.

There is a genetic component to it too, my dad is obese and barely exercises (only walks) and also has a RHR in the 60's.

dewd2

Average has been 46 for the past 3 years. I have no idea what it was before that since I had no device to track it.

I run almost daily (60+ miles per week).

AliNouveau

EliseTK1 wrote: »

What is your average resting heart rate? How often do you exercise, and what types do you do? Has your resting heart rate changed over time?

I have always been in the low 60s, but the last couple years with increased exercise I'm averaging 53-54 BPM. Sometimes I get as low as 48-49. I started with marathon training a few years ago, but nowadays I mostly lift weights, walk, and spin. I do some type of exercise ~6 days a week.

I have a colleague who is very fit, exercises as much as I do, and has a resting heart rate in the 80-90 range. Now I'm curious about averages for everyone else.

Some people just naturally have a fast resting heart rate. My dad always did and was always in good shape. When he got sick eventually they tested him and his heart for everything and he just had a fast pulse. I often feel I do too but I can get mine pretty low when I think about it

RunsWithBees

44, sometimes a bit lower. I usually set off heart rate monitors and have to tell the medical staff that I feel fine, I’m a runner.

sijomial

In my 30's and 40's with sporadic but intense exercise of squash and lifting about 65bpm, more regular squash and a bit of indoor rowing would get it down to low sixties which I regarded as "fit for me".

In my 50's took up cycling seriously (also lost weight) and RHR dropped by 20% to 48bpm. First time in my life I had done endurance cardio. This year I'm averaging about 7 hours of cycling a week but in summer it's more like 10hrs. Increased volume has a big impact on my fitness level but not on my RHR unless I get into the realms of overtraining and then it starts to climb.

steveko89

57-62 per my apple watch.

RockingWithLJ

53 average

StargazerB

Mine is in the 50-60's and in the 40's when I'm sleeping. Before I adopted a fit and healthy lifestyle my resting HR was in the 80's.

Fflpnari

40s. my hr will drop in the 30's

spiriteagle99

60-62 most of the time. I'm a runner, running 5 days a week, and walking 7 days. When I'm marathon training, my HR goes up as my mileage increases.

dougparz

Mine is 44. I run 5 days a week and that has brought it down.

MarttaHP

According to my Garmin, my current 7-day average is 36. It's usually in the high 30s for me. I run five to six days a week and do weights three times (plus some cross-training), so I'm getting plenty of exercise, but I'm sure there's a genetic component to it since it's so low. (It probably was higher before I started working out this much, but it hasn't really changed since I've had a 24-hour monitoring device on my wrist, so I can't say for certain.)

ghudson92

Mine is anywhere between 56 and 62 - I have bad sinus issues and allergies so sometimes I struggle with my breathing

Jamaal89

I use whoop device and my typical is 48

kwhammett567

58-60 bpm...Im active 6 days a week.

MikePfirrman

I have an idea it's mid 50s (used to be mid or low 60s before I started doing cardio six days a week for an hour). Wish I had an Apple Watch to know for sure and my dogs don't let me stay in bed long enough to check it when I first wake up. They go from 0 to 60 in like four seconds!

vivo1972

58

I'm a cyclist but I think a lot of it is genetic.

I come from a line of long-lived women so I'm guessing I got the good heart gene

sgt1372

My RHR varies between 60-70. Surprising 2me that so many ppl report a RHR of 30-40. Just seems REALLY low but if ur still beathing it's all good.

alexmose

40s. Bring on the electrolytes!

suzanna333

According to my Garmin, my current 7-day average is 51. It drops into the 40s when I am sleeping. I do very brisk 4-mile walks 2-3 times a week and swim 1800 yards 4-5 times a week.

AnnPT77

Well, you're likely to get a seriously biased sample, asking this here. People are probably more likely to post if they're sort of proud of where they are, less likely to post if they think it's sub-standard, so I'd expect the sample represented here to be biased toward low numbers.

Lately, mine's been in the bottom half of the 50s, mostly. I'm doing kind of li'l ol' lady maintenance-level exercise in this pandemic phase. My resting HR has been close to there for a long time, though my exercise schedule has been seriously up and down since March.

If it matters, I'm 64, currently 5'5', about 129 pounds (BMI 21-point-something) and have been BMI 23 and below for nearly 5 years, after being class 1 obese for a few decades before that (BMI a little over 30, weight in 180s).

So, exercise:

Recent few weeks, 2 x 2K rowing machine 6 days a week usually at moderate steady state (takes about 25 minutes including cool-down, heart rate usually below 70% heart rate reserve), 3 days sloppy but low-rest strength training (about half an hour each session).

Pre-pandemic, what I've done for 15+ years, obese for the first 10 or so of them: Two days a week spin class, year round. In Spring to Fall, 4 days on-water rowing, about an hour per session, maybe a little more. Late Fall, when on-water rowing ends based on weather, slack off a little with just a bit of rowing machine 2-3 days a week to replace part of the on-water, but 200k plus on rowing machine in December, so 30-40 minutes fairly energetic 6 days a week. Start strength training after December, if I can get motivated (iffy), try to keep that up until Spring, alongside a little bit of machine rowing, walking when weather makes it pleasant enough (above freezing, mostly), sometime swim or something.

Resting rate usually drifts up a little (single digit increase) sometime after December, until regular on-water rowing resumes in Spring, then it heads back down.

There have been phases in there (including while obese, BTW), where my resting rate would frequently be in the upper 40s. I got a unexpected continuation of that, post-weight loss, even with seasonal exercise shrinkage, I guess until my heart decided my body didn't need it to be so efficient to power the smaller body around.

I don't know what my resting rate was when obese, before having gotten really addicted to rowing, because I only started measuring it for training purposes. I can only assume it was higher - probably materially higher, but that's a guess.

I'd say that it takes more of a change in exercise schedule (like a longer hiatus) to affect my resting rate now, after years of being pretty active, vs. what was typical when I first started monitoring resting rate, but I can't prove it.

Amusingly, my Garmin says my resting rate today so far is 63 (up around 10bpm), after an evening of seriously over-maintenance eating yesterday. That's an effect I've seen in similar circumstances before; it will pass soon, probably by tomorrow.

TonyB0588

Mine is in the 90s. Is that abnormal?