Competitive Friday thread - resting heart rate

jds_1981

So I've measured my resting heart rate over the last few evenings and have come up with a figure of 44. How does everyone else do?

essex-commuter

I average 45 but if I cycle every day (36 miles) ti seems to rest at a bit higher until I take a rest day. By Sunday night I'm down to 43/44 as long as I feel 100%.

tgotb

Low 40s normally.

Was pootling home last night (I know, the shame...), and looked down at some traffic lights to see that my HR was 68. Serious call to MTFU!

Clever Pun

never really pay attention to that.. just checked it now and it's about 60ish I finished cycling 80-90 mins ago...

EKE_38BPM

I had to go to the hospital a few years ago for a football injury and a nurse took my heart rate and blood pressure with the machine they use.
I can't remember what my BP was, but my HR was 38. She was surprised so took it again with the machine then again manually.
She asked me if I was an athlete.

I was so proud of that figure that it is now part of my username.

rjsterry

Can get it down to the high 40s at a push, but that's last thing at night after listening to my Biosphere album. Daytime resting is around 55-60. Maximum HR recorded so far is low 190s, but I think I might make 200 at a push.

essex-commuter

We should also have a 'what is your heart rate right now' thread!

63 for me but just had a poo which could have raised it a bit!

bigmat

Don't really measure my heart rate that regularly. I got the "are you an athlete" comment from a nurse a few months ago but heart rate was only in the mid 50s I think. Proper "resting" it might be a bit lower. Max heart rate I have recorded was around 220 BPM, racing a mountain bike up hill at high altitude in Bolivia - my head felt like it was about to pop! Usually I top out at under 180 BPM, I think, but I generally don't bother with a HRM.

ketsbaia

EKE_38BPM wrote:

I had to go to the hospital a few years ago for a football injury and a nurse took my heart rate and blood pressure with the machine they use.
I can't remember what my BP was, but my HR was 38. She was surprised so took it again with the machine then again manually.
She asked me if I was an athlete.

I was so proud of that figure that it is now part of my username.

Heh. I had that in June. Woke up in the middle of the night with chest pains so, as a *cough* middle aged man in lycra, I phoned NHS direct, who put me on to the ambulance service. They arrived and took my heart rate and asked me if I was an athlete as I had a resting heart rate of 39. This was in the height of my Marmotte training; it's doubtless gone up now.

suzyb

According to the lidl heart rate monitor my resting heart rate is over 60

No doubt some scientist will come along in a minute and tell me I will be dead in a few years :roll:

Cafewanda

suzyb wrote:

According to the lidl heart rate monitor my resting heart rate is over 60

No doubt some scientist will come along in a minute and tell me I will be dead in a few years :roll:

On your bike more, hun. That'll sort it.

jonginge

Cafewanda wrote:

suzyb wrote:

According to the lidl heart rate monitor my resting heart rate is over 60

No doubt some scientist will come along in a minute and tell me I will be dead in a few years :roll:

On your bike more, hun. That'll sort it.

Wouldn't worry. That's still lower than average.

Mine was once around 40. Not sure what it is these days.

iPete

Mines mid 50s proper resting but around 60 more realistically.

Then again, its not a great indicator of fitness, I'll make a mockery of my mates with lower resting hear rates on a bike, although they'll do the same to me off the bike, meh

CiB

Mine's zero at rest, but then when at rest I tend to be back in my special box in a layer of soil, working on my dislike of sunlight & garlic.

bails87

Just checked mine, it was 45.

As I'm on my own in the office I think I should do some more resting to try to get it down.

mkirby

i dont know mine but i can garentee it is a lot higher than 70. Im fat and unfit you see

prb007

Ages, guys, post your ages, too....

me;
48BPM at 46 years of age, and still getting fitter (I hope!)

gbsahne001

42@ 42; I've also had comments regarding this in the past whilst in hospital and been asked whether I cycle.

Chewy Cheeks

56 resting 46 years of age, overweight and stressed

Jay dubbleU

56 at age 63

sampras38

Mine tends to hovver around the mid 40's and I've just turned 40.

It's not always an indication of fitness and can sometimes be genetic. A friend of mine hovvers around the late 30's and he's not even that fit.

prb007

Jay dubbleU wrote:

56 at age 63

now THOSE are impressive figures, sir!
hope I'm in that kind of shape in 17 years time!

dav1

just took mine at 54, which matches previous resting readings for me.

itboffin

Mine resting first thing in the morning is low 90s an low 100s during the day, I'm neither over weight or unfit, in my defence my recovery rate is very fast.

I stopped using a HR monitor quite a while ago as I began obsessing about zone training which spoilt the ride.

noisemonkey

48 the other day when in hospital.. nurse was concerned that it was low though I told her I was cycling..

Radioactiveman

Mine is zero. I am a zombie. I win

Agent57

About 45bpm, almost 42 years old. I'm a good couple of stone overweight, which doesn't help.