Resting Heart Rate.

[Cube]

I remember Indurain when he raced had a resting HR at 29!!!!!!

 

[TheJDog]

Armstrong's was a comparatively speedy 32

 

[Padraig]

My resting heart rate has always been 60. I think I must have a quartz movement.

 

[Drago]

I'm 52. Not because I'm mega awesomely fit, but because I is just built that way for some reason. My Dad is the same, still south of 60 BPM at 70 years.

 

[Hip Priest]

Mine is 41. I got my BP taken by a nurse recently. She said "Wow, is your pulse always this low?" So I said that it was, yes. And she responded "Did you use to be really fit or something?" Cheeky cow!

 

[Joshua Plumtree]

Mine is 41. I got my BP taken by a nurse recently. She said "Wow, is your pulse always this low?" So I said that it was, yes. And she responded "Did you use to be really fit or something?" Cheeky cow!

You got away lightly. When the nurse measured my resting heart rate at 43 at the age of 53, my Doctor insisted I have an ECG, "just to be on the safe side."

Had the test one Christmas Eve. Results will be back in the New Year said the nurse. Thanks for that!

Never did here anymore, so I assumed everything was hunky dory!

 

[night cycler]

Mine is 41. I got my BP taken by a nurse recently. She said "Wow, is your pulse always this low?" So I said that it was, yes. And she responded "Did you use to be really fit or something?" Cheeky cow!

There is quite an interesting issue here. Let’s say you suddenly find that your resting HR suddenly goes up by about 30 or so beats to around 72 beats, which means it is kind of “normal” for the sedentary (non cyclist non exerciser etc). How would we get the doc to take us serious that there was a problem ?

I’ve thought about this issue a few times over the years (Mine was 47 bpm at rest when I was in to running in my 20s). I once asked a doc in the A&E this question and he said, “we don’t just go on the heart rate-we look at the skin & eyes etc as well”. I cannot say I was convinced. Can you imagine the doc discussing it with a colleague. “We’ve got a bloke on B1 ward, pulse is 70 bpm at rest, but looking at his skin and eyes I think it should be no more than 45 bpm”

 

[G3CWI]

Paramedic measured mine once. His first comment after doing so was "are you a cyclist?" Seems we have a reputation.

 

[screenman]

Paramedic measured mine once. His first comment after doing so was "are you a cyclist?" Seems we have a reputation.

Was you dressed in lycra at the time?

 

[Citius]

Let’s say you suddenly find that your resting HR suddenly goes up by about 30 or so beats to around 72 beats, which means it is kind of “normal” for the sedentary (non cyclist non exerciser etc). How would we get the doc to take us serious that there was a problem ?

You would simply tell him that your RHR had increased by 30bpm.

I’ve thought about this issue a few times over the years (Mine was 47 bpm at rest when I was in to running in my 20s). I once asked a doc in the A&E this question and he said, “we don’t just go on the heart rate-we look at the skin & eyes etc as well”. I cannot say I was convinced. Can you imagine the doc discussing it with a colleague. “We’ve got a bloke on B1 ward, pulse is 70 bpm at rest, but looking at his skin and eyes I think it should be no more than 45 bpm”

There is usually more than one symptom of an impending illness.

 

[Sharky]

I scared the ambulance team once, after I'd taken a fall. My heart rate was 38 and they were a bit worried, until I told them it was normal to be in the low 40's.

 

[screenman]

I scared the ambulance team once, after I'd taken a fall. My heart rate was 38 and they were a bit worried, until I told them it was normal to be in the low 40's.

Normally after a fall you would have thought it would be higher than a resting rate.

My FIL got a very low HR once, he is no longer with us it went that low.

 

[albion]

Well, I only do some walking, no running or sports and have not biked for 12 months and apparantly my resting heartbeat of 55 is athlete standard for my age.

Can anyone predict what it will fall to when I get bike fit again soon?

 

[Citius]

It might not fall by much, if anything. It's not a linear equation.

 

[ANT 666]

Get some one to take the readings when you are asleep, can't be more restfull than that.