Recovery Heart Rate

Posts: 18 Member
edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I did cardio today and got in my target heart range ~146 beat per minute. After 1 minute of rest I had dropped to 115. After 2 minutes I dropped to 109.

Some websites say this is "excellent" and others say this is "average". Does anyone know how to interpret this?

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  • Posts: 8,281 Member
    The association between recovery heart rate and "fitness" is tenuous at best. It can also be affected by a number of factors--like changes in your workout, and totally unrelated things like room temperature, lack of sleep, etc.

    Individual changes over time: e.g. for the same workout, your 1 min recovery heart rate drop goes from 20 beats/min to 30 beats/min--CAN reflect an increase in conditioning.

    It's one of those things--like resting heart rate -- that people try to read significance into, but it is only a modest indicator, at best.
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