Resting Heart Rate

Crispybug
Crispybug Posts: 58
edited June 2011 in Road beginners
At the risk of sounding a bit dull, but how relaxed should you be when calculating your resting heart rate?

I only ask as when I'm standing up and not moving my heart rate is about 63 bpm
When I'm sitting down and relaxing it's about 49bpm
And if I lay down on the bed or settee for a few minutes it's around 37bpm

Which is the correct measure?
Mad as a box of badgers

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  • Barrzy257
    Barrzy257 Posts: 411
    best way is wear a heart rate monitor to bed and take the average from whilst your asleep
  • cyco2
    cyco2 Posts: 593
    Crispybug wrote:
    sounding a bit dull

    If you Google "resting heart rate" you will get over 2 million hits mostly about how to get a resting heart rate.
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  • mattward1979
    mattward1979 Posts: 692
    Read this and was prompted to test mine...

    Despite being 16.5 stone, (6 foot 4 though..) mine is 60bpm! Very happy =)

    Was way about this a few years ago at a similar weight!!
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  • navrig
    navrig Posts: 1,352
    Barrzy257 wrote:
    best way is wear a heart rate monitor to bed and take the average from whilst your asleep

    On the non-nookie night
  • ollyridesfirst
    ollyridesfirst Posts: 486
    the best way i have found is to measure your heart rate every morning as soon as you wake up every day for a week....add the numbers together then divide the total by 7

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