What's your resting heart rate?

sagetracey
sagetracey Posts: 607 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
I had to attend the ER last week where a nurse taking my obs asked whether I had ever been told I had a low resting heart rate. I hadn't and asked her what it was.

after telling me that the 'normal' range was 60-80 beats per minute, she said mine was just 50 bpm!

I said that I was fairly fit and she "obviously!"
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  • LilRedRooster
    LilRedRooster Posts: 1,421 Member
    Heart rate has a fitness correlation, but a large part of it is genetic, and is set by your sympathetic nervous system and pacemaker on your heart. It's cued by blood pressure, blood volume, blood concentration, and other body functions, so lower heart rates don't always mean healthy, and higher ones don't always mean unhealthy.

    Not saying you're unhealthy, but it's sometimes misleading to just go by heart rate as a barometer for fitness level. Mine is around 65.
  • mmapags
    mmapags Posts: 8,934 Member
    65 to 68
  • sagetracey
    sagetracey Posts: 607 Member
    Thanks for the additional information, LilRedRooster. By way of background, my heart rate was in the high 80s before I lost weight and got fitter.
  • keem88
    keem88 Posts: 1,689 Member
    usually 82-84 is mine...
  • Lovely_Doll
    Lovely_Doll Posts: 72
    76 BPM. :p
  • nwg74
    nwg74 Posts: 360 Member
    Mine is 70 going up to around 120 during exercise. Athletes can be low as 50.
  • Generalle
    Generalle Posts: 201 Member
    mine is exactly 60, which is not too shabby....
  • AmandaLAcosta
    AmandaLAcosta Posts: 87
    60
  • Antjebeth08
    Antjebeth08 Posts: 42 Member
    72 bpm
  • Kincar
    Kincar Posts: 601 Member
    Around 45.

    Low resting heart rate runs in my family.
  • moran1917
    moran1917 Posts: 1,133 Member
    my resting heart rate was 85ish when i started working out and now i have got it down to around 65ish.
  • ashielovesdashie88
    ashielovesdashie88 Posts: 63
    mine is 50-55 bpm and i haven't been really active due to an injury for about a month now....wonder if i should see the doctor or if i'm okay.
  • Thriceshy
    Thriceshy Posts: 708 Member
    At 400 + pounds, my resting heartrate was between 110 and 120. At 231 lbs, my resting is between 55 and 65. Even a doctor's office visit (had one on Friday) has my heartrate at 68, and that's after walking into the office and stressing over the appointment. Edited to say that, while working out, I range from 135-155, depending on what I'm doing and where I want it to be.

    Kris
  • Hungry_Tuna
    Hungry_Tuna Posts: 361 Member
    I'm 5'9, 170-ish pounds and am quite active. My resting varies around 66-77... When I'm maxing out on the trails I bike through, I will be at 164. When I weighed more my bpm was higher during strenuous activities (170's).

    Just depends on the person as well as all those factors Lilredrooster pointed out.
  • MsNewBooty83
    MsNewBooty83 Posts: 985 Member
    mines low too, 48-53 bpm....my blood pressure is crazy low too. i was actually worried about it and tracked it for a while...but read that some people are just fine like this. in others it can mean organ failure! crazy, different bodies.
  • Phoenix59
    Phoenix59 Posts: 364 Member
    Mine ranges between 52-56. Max has gone to 144.
  • scottb81
    scottb81 Posts: 2,538 Member
    Usually it's around 40 when I wake up. If I take a rest day and sleep well it has been as low as 36.
  • devilsangel2
    devilsangel2 Posts: 123 Member
    Mine was 56 three months ago and is now 46. According to the treadmill it has been as high as 195, but that's only the hand sensor and I don't really trust those.
  • TXHunny84
    TXHunny84 Posts: 503 Member
    My resting heart rate is 90 bpm
  • amolina0810
    amolina0810 Posts: 106 Member
    Mine is around 50-60. Going up to about 150-160 when I run!!
  • PinkEarthMama
    PinkEarthMama Posts: 987 Member
    Mine is around 55... My husband's resting heart rate is nearly 100, which runs in his father's side of the family.

    When I was in the hospital post ankle surgery, my heart rate was nearly 200. It was epic - they thought I was going to stroke.
  • realwombat
    realwombat Posts: 15 Member
    Around 50-55 in the morning after a good night sleep. Used to be around 80.
  • Martucha123
    Martucha123 Posts: 1,089 Member
    57 and descending :)
  • HeidiMightyRawr
    HeidiMightyRawr Posts: 3,343 Member
    Mine is around 70-80.
    My mother's is like yours however, around 55bpm I think. She's very fit.
  • ania0307
    ania0307 Posts: 49
    57 :) not bad, want to get down to 54
  • PrinnyBomb
    PrinnyBomb Posts: 196 Member
    86bpm but I'm very heavy and just starting to work out
  • diddyh
    diddyh Posts: 131 Member
    I think mine is about 66. My blood pressure is fairly low.
  • mz_moon
    mz_moon Posts: 3 Member
    ah so the higher the resting heart rate ... the less fit?

    Mine seems to be around 90...
  • scottywor
    scottywor Posts: 140 Member
    50-55!
  • Jordant107
    Jordant107 Posts: 218 Member
    50-54bpm. Used to be around 72bpm, and then I started running and working out.

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