What's your resting heart rate?

running4myhealth
running4myhealth Posts: 96
edited September 19 in Health and Weight Loss
I just did a 5 min test with my polar HRM and it came out as 43 beats per minute.

What's yours?

Lower is better, right?

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  • running4myhealth
    running4myhealth Posts: 96
    I just did a 5 min test with my polar HRM and it came out as 43 beats per minute.

    What's yours?

    Lower is better, right?
  • MisoSoup79
    MisoSoup79 Posts: 517
    holy cow, 43 is great! you have the heart of an athlete. :flowerforyou:

    Mine is in the low 70's, but only a month ago it was in the mid-high 80's. Now that I've been pretty regular with the cardio, it is starting to drop.
  • mrsyac2
    mrsyac2 Posts: 2,784 Member
    now Im curious what mine is. So what do I just go and lay down with my HRM on? Aww man I cant do that now anyway will have to wait until tomorrow after I burn my calories because i reset my HRM at the end of the week. So I will test it out sometime tomorrow.
  • mrsyac2
    mrsyac2 Posts: 2,784 Member
    now Im curious what mine is. So what do I just go and lay down with my HRM on? Aww man I cant do that now anyway will have to wait until tomorrow after I burn my calories because i reset my HRM at the end of the week. So I will test it out sometime tomorrow.
  • thejarviclan
    thejarviclan Posts: 465 Member
    Mine is 60. I did it with a stopwatch and my fingers for a full minute.
  • hmo4
    hmo4 Posts: 1,673 Member
    Mine is 54.
  • running4myhealth
    running4myhealth Posts: 96
    I did it first thing in the morning. I read somewhere it's best to do it in the morning and before you have eaten anything. Not sure why that is.
  • porka29
    porka29 Posts: 868 Member
    Yikes, mine has shown 100+ the last two times...................guess I've got some work to do!:laugh:
  • Sapporo
    Sapporo Posts: 693 Member
    Usually around 60. It got down to 54 today at the end of yoga.
  • weesel80
    weesel80 Posts: 186
    Before I started losing weight, mine was anywhere from 100-110!!:noway: Now, it is usually around 65. :happy:

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  • cheermom11
    cheermom11 Posts: 393 Member
    Mine usually runs from 52-54.
  • Wolfena
    Wolfena Posts: 1,570 Member
    At one point and time mine was in the mid 40's, now it is in the low 50's.
  • kylie541
    kylie541 Posts: 12
    120 but I have a heart condition.
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    I tested the RHR today to see if it is different after heavy exercise. I have tested 1st thing in the morning and it was round 60.

    Today I walked 40 minutes in sand, surf....up and down the mini-dunes with my HR staying in the 140' and spiking to 175. That is 85-102% of my max heart rate.
    I did it in intervals to see what my HR did for the next 2 hours I was at the beach.

    It never got below 84 and that was me lying prone, headphones on, not moving a muscle (cept my heart of course!) for 15 minutes. If not then just lying there was 90-100 and when I swam, it shot right back up to 120-130....usually I have a hard time getting it that high with a swim.

    So my little experiment wasnt scientific or anything, but it tells me your heart continues to burn more calories for hours after a good interval training session.

    What I took away from this for myself is.....I am not eating enough calories, and need to really keep my eye on fueling this ol machine.
  • drewzaun
    drewzaun Posts: 111
    The lowest I have ever tested mine it was 38, first thing in the morning before I got out of bed. I wish I had an HRM when I was in the Army, I was much more fit then.

    Right now I would expect it to test in the 50's, but I haven't tested it in a while. I pretty much only watch it when I am kicking the training up to make sure I am not over training. During a base phase, like in winter, I don't bother...
  • ohthatbambi
    ohthatbambi Posts: 1,098 Member
    60-70
  • jackeh
    jackeh Posts: 1,515 Member
    wow i havent tested mine since i got my HR monitor about 6 months ago ... then it was around 86
    and i just tested it now and its 68..... crazy
  • Fitness_Chick
    Fitness_Chick Posts: 6,648 Member
    54 resting

    I do a 10 second test x 6...it's normally the way I do it while working out in the water to make sure I stay in my HR zone and don't go too high over it but am working hard enough to be aerobic. Much easier for me to do it that way:wink: ...I lose track if I'm doing it for 60 seconds:blushing: (well especially while in workout mode):happy:

    It's come way way down from when I was much heavier, I think it was in the 80's then.
    FC:heart:
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