Curiosity - resting heart rate

hipari wrote: »

speyerj wrote: »

My resting heart rate this week is between 53-54. My current BMI is 31 and I run 3x a week for 30 minutes and strength train for 30 minutes 3x a week. I get about 12,000 steps a day. FitBit says my Cardio Fitness score is 34 which they say is "Excellent". Before I (re)started MFP, my BMI was 42 and my resting heart rate averaged at 66 and my Cardio score hovered around 25, which is "average".

@speyerj that’s interesting, how old are you? I’m asking because my current Cardio Fitness score by Fitbit is 29-33, which they class as poor to fair. Excellent would be more than 50 according to my app. It says ”women 20-29” on top, so I’m wondering how this will change with age or if there’s some other difference in our stats/apps.

Yeah, mine is 33-37 (fair-average). I'm 42 and male.

Well, mine seems a bit weird, as in its much lower than I would expect it to be.
I'm 51, just under 14st and feel fat and unfit. Blood pressure is always high and I struggle to bring it under control naturally and when looking at the Garmin I expected RHR to be high 60's but its not, its 52. it's been much lower though, I noticed whenever I stopped the drink it went down to high 40's, and when I had 3 months off the dreaded alcohol it registered a record low of 42 (had lost a bit of weight then as well).
Don't know if there is any correlation between heart health/blood pressure and RHR but with having high BP I automatically assumed RHR would also be high - apparently not though!
Alcohol is massive a factor though, when I start drinking you can see the RHR go up day by day...which begs the question why start drinking again but thats a whole other thread !!

RHR 58
BMI 31
Female aged 47 and menopausal !
Fat cyclist

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According to my Fitbit, my RHR stays pretty steady between 49-51.

Stats: M 45, 6' 200. Been into triathlons for a number of years but current weight is far off where I've been at my best.

My resting heart rate is 59 bpm. I am 5’4”, 125 lbs after having lost about 103 lbs over two years. Current BMI is 21.5. I was about 60 bpm before starting to lose weight, so no real change there.

I feel MUCH fitter, can walk a ton, can do a slow jog for quite a long time, feel much stronger than I was.

BMI: 21.8
current RHR: 56 BPM
average RHR: 52-57 BPM

I don't track my RHR all that much but as I've gotten more active, I've noticed that it certainly has gone down from the 60's to the 50's. Since I don't track my RHR too closely, I'm not too sure how my period affects it. It seems like it should be lower since I'm more lethargic during my period.

Female, 70, BMI 31, pre corona hr= 60’s, last night hr=84.

53 yo female
BMI 29
RHR per Garmin 61

Currently:

57 yrs old
BMI 35.2
RHR 56
BP 126/80

Where I started in June, 2019:

56 yrs old
BMI 45.5
RHR 84
BP 148/92

1 hr cardio 7 days/wk unless sick or injured.

Mid to high 50s for me last few times I checked my blood pressure at home, I'm 29 (30 next week) and maintaining a BMI that hovers between 22.5-23, I currently work out about 5 days a week - but my resting heart rate was never super high (low-mid 60s) to begin with (highest weight put me around BMI 36, but I was pretty young at the time, too - late teens/20ish)

My blood pressure seems to sit around 110/70, sometimes dips to as low as 90/50ish... funnily enough I have such bad anxiety at doctors tho I always have to mention it because my heartrate and bp shoot through the roof! Like, 130+ beats per minute and almost double my normal blood pressure... yikes

48 yo
Female
Bmi 29.9
Rhr 55-56, but it fluctuates. I'm happy to see lower numbers, like 51, and it will stay there for a few days,then climb into higher 50s again. I think when i sleep well it improves. Also it was lower pre surgery few months ago, but hardly comes down like that anymore. I'm active, cyclist.
Where do you guys get the cardio fitness score on Fitbit? I use charge 2 with hr, but don't see that score on mine?

RHR:45(most likely due to low thyroid function) heart holster test done(for other reasons) a year ago confirmed.

BMI: 27

Fitness: heavy weights 5 times a week, run 2-4miles 2-4 times a week, walking minimum 2-3 miles/day, multiple summer fall backpacking trips include 3-4 days at a time of 10-25miles/day.

ETA:

Age: 39

BP: 110/70

Lillymoo01 wrote: »

I must admit that I am surprised by many people here having RHR's that have them at elite athlete kind of level (under 60).

Me:
48 yo female
BMI 19
RHR according to Fitbit 64-67

@Lillymoo01
There tends to be a bit of selection bias in these RHR threads where more people with low RHR will respond and people in the normal range will be less likely to.

Personal experience is that I used to think of low 60's as being an indicator of "good for me" fitness levels when I regarded myself as being quite aerobically fit (but 30lbs overweight). Playing squash several times a week plus strength training. 65bpm and over if life and work interfered and my exercise volume and fitness level dropped.

Then in my 50's I lost the excess weight and took up endurance cardio (cycling) and dropped 20% with 48bpm becoming my usual RHR.

What's your BMI and fitness level? - BMI around 25 and in the upper portion of excellent aerobic range for my elderly age demographic (60 YO)

Lillymoo01 wrote: »

I must admit that I am surprised by many people here having RHR's that have them at elite athlete kind of level (under 60).

Me:
48 yo female
BMI 19
RHR according to Fitbit 64-67

I agree with what @sijomial said about selection bias in this thread, i.e., that those with "better" RHR may be more likely to report in.

I also think the idea that only elites have RHR under 60 is a little overblown.

Most community stats (i.e. general population research) seem likely to include only a small number of dedicated recreational athletes who do reasonably-large volume cardiovascular workouts regularly, let alone formal training (that targets things like improved CV response quite specifically).

Even at the doctor's office (where I've usually dashed in after running late, and they check my HR immediately 🙄), they often read me at 60, and it passes completely without comment or discussion. When I set off the bradycardia alarms at the outpatient surgery center (HR < 50), the staff were unperturbed (except by the need to keep responding to the beeping monitor when it happened again), so I suspect it happens with moderate frequency among people who don't have "problem" bradycardia.

HR range is also IMU quite genetics influenced (though consistent activity can lower RHR, of course). Those genetically on the low end, who work out or even train, might well hit 40s/50s at quite sub-elite levels. (<= speculation, not facts).

Personally, I reported earlier at high 40s/low 50s. I'm being less active in this isolation period, and am running RHR mid 50s, sometimes even high 50s some days. (I'm still around BMI 22 now, 131.4 at 5'5" so BMI 29.1 this morning, and age 64.)

Like @PAV8888, my RHR trends up in periods of over-maintenance eating, and in my case a bit higher after meaningful alcohol consumption, like a couple of glasses of wine the night before; then it comes back down into whatever my then-baseline rates are once my routine returns to normal.