How fit are you?

[Fnaar]

FWIW, wikipedia says the following:
Miguel Indurain, a cyclist and five times Tour de France winner, had a resting heart rate of 28 beats per minute, one of the lowest ever recorded in a healthy human

 

[bonj2]

Bonj, as usual, talking bollocks.

I once did clinical trials with a bunch of averagely fit aussies and kiwis. All keen sportsmen, none of us super-athletes.

The trials involved spending hours at a time on our beds wired up to hospital monitors.

The alarms on the monitors would regularly go off as our HRs dropped to 35, 33, 32bpm. The nurses would dart out from their station, expecting an adverse reaction to the drug we were testing, only to find us reading, or dozing or something.

After a while, as a courtesy to the nurses, we'd do a few half-situps or something to keep the HR in the mid-40s.

i'd have to see it to believe it.

 

[betty swollocks]

There are five aspects of fitness:-
Strength
Speed
Endurance
Flexibility
Motor fitness (co-ordination)

In relation to other to other 51 year-olds, I'd rate myself as
9
9
9
9
?
Because I make a big effort to keep fit, with regular weight training, Step aerobics and lots of cycling, of course.
Compared to Lance (speed, strength and endurance), I suppose I'd rate about a 5 or 6.

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

FWIW, wikipedia says the following:
Miguel Indurain, a cyclist and five times Tour de France winner, had a resting heart rate of 28 beats per minute, one of the lowest ever recorded in a healthy human

Seb Coe's was 26 in the year when he set several world records. He had a viral infection and had to be disconnected from the hospital monitor, because it kept saying that he was dying.

 

[Canrider]

if i put my HRM on, i can make my heart rate go down by watching it. is that normal or am i superhuman. got it down to 57 once.

I amused myself by doing that one time when I was in the hospital A&E. Played around with my blood oxygen level too. My then-girlfriend didn't appreciate my choice of entertainment.

Not only RHR, but blood pressure gets competitive cyclists in trouble. There's a story circulating out there of a guy who crashed and took two days to get out of the hospital because they thought his BP indicated he was in shock!

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

The Times recommends "Organic Porn"

In The Times yesterday, Caitlin Moran was enthusing about some site called "Youporn" which is apparently a sort of "Youtube" but for people to post clips of their carnal activities. It was described as the sort of thing that Jamie Oliver would recommend for its organic home grown characteristics.

Have any Cafe goers put their head cams to good use and posted a clip? What about you bonj?

 

[betty swollocks]

I suppose Patrick's post could be related to the rest of this thread in some tangential way!?

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

I suppose Patrick's post could be related to the rest of this thread in some tangential way!?

Er, it was to do with incompetent posting. I'll let you into a secret - sometimes I'm not giving a huge amount of thought to these posts.

 

[domtyler]

If you wear them all at once, do they all say the same reading? If not, at least one of them must be wrong.

I've never tried that before but it sounds like a good experiment, I'll give it a go at some point.

Here is the output from my Garmin during the last 25 mile time trial I did if anyones interested: