Whats your heart rate?

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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    55bpm, sitting at a desk, not bad.
    MTB/CX

    "As I said last time, it won't happen again."
  • iPete
    iPete Posts: 6,076
    How many of you snuck off this morning to put your HRMs back on?* :lol:

    *Yes I realise you can do it the old fashioned way
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    As an overweight 49 year old it is currently 48bpm.

    When I was doing triathlon training in my mid 20s, it was around 33bpm.
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    daviesee wrote:
    As an overweight 49 year old it is currently 48bpm.

    When I was doing triathlon training in my mid 20s, it was around 33bpm.

    That's lower than Armstrong's when he was competing?

    And a lot lower than a load of pro riders who were taking EPO by the bucket load?
    _
  • sfichele
    sfichele Posts: 605
    Around 56 bpm sitting at my desk at the moment
    BMC: http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12749451
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    daviesee wrote:
    As an overweight 49 year old it is currently 48bpm.

    When I was doing triathlon training in my mid 20s, it was around 33bpm.

    That's lower than Armstrong's when he was competing?

    And a lot lower than a load of pro riders who were taking EPO by the bucket load?

    It was before Armstrong, or Indurain so I didn't have that benchmark.
    It actually concerned me to the point where I went to the doctors as I wasn't aware that a low pulse could be a good thing.
    Oh, and no EPO. The only drug I used around that time was alcohol. Caffine too now but that won't help if you are looking for a low rate. :wink:
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Seems quite a few of you might be suffering from Bradycardia
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Seems quite a few of you might be suffering from Bradycardia

    I may have Bradycardia, but I ain't



























    suffering.


    Sorry about the pause, I just fainted.
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  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    Mine's 58 a bit higher than usual but then I am at home awaiting new bike delivery
  • Cafewanda
    Cafewanda Posts: 2,788
    60 sat at desk debating whether to go for lunch now or wait a while longer.
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Seems quite a few of you might be suffering from Bradycardia

    Coincidentely :?: I did suffer from asthma in my younger years.
    I also have high blood pressure. Maybe that is just to compensate for the low rate.
    I was as stunned to find out that I had high blood pressure (192/146 peak, now 144/84 on meds) last year as I was when I found out my low pulse rate 25 years ago.
    Question is - Am I chilled because of my low rate, or volatile because of my pressure?
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    edited January 2012
    Varies from 50-70 but can be lower or higher just depends on how wired I am.

    when I was younger and had a heart moniter, one stony mtb climb could get me to 200+ but that is 20 years ago now.
  • Twostage
    Twostage Posts: 987
    Wrath Rob wrote:
    ~55 resting, max as experienced on a race training day in November is 191 :shock: Recovery isn't too bad but not measured the rate of decay, assuming that's something a) makes sense and b) tells you something about your fitness level. Might be interesting to dig out a trace and have a look.
    When I'm on the turbo and finished my exercise I pedal slowly and/or backwards until my pulse is less than120. Usually takes about 2 minutes to get down to that.
    Last time I used my HRM to check my pulse at work it hovered around 50. I started my lunch before reading this thread so my pulse will be higher at the moment.
    Sadly we don't have sales girls here with jodphurs :cry:
  • Maxticate
    Maxticate Posts: 193
    Right now reading this 46

    lowest ever achieved/observed 37
  • Fat-Boy-Roubaix
    Fat-Boy-Roubaix Posts: 413
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Seems quite a few of you might be suffering from Bradycardia
    It was a concern of mine, but Dr Google suggests it is only a problem if it has side effects dizzy etc, and when my Doc took my bp she looked at first concerned but then said out loud (I think she meant to keep it to herself) oh you were once very fit. This pre-dated my return to cycling and when my username was more appropriate.

    But if you were to ask me I would rate my fitness 6/10
  • walkingbootweather
    walkingbootweather Posts: 2,443
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Seems quite a few of you might be suffering from Bradycardia

    Mrs WBW just back from a trip to the sales with my flexible friend. One look at "how much money she had saved me", certainly pushed my heart rate up. Think I might be suffering from Barclaycardia.
    Nobody told me we had a communication problem
  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    CiB wrote:
    143, but a girl from Sales has just walked past wearing jodhpurs.

    :)

    If you have lower than 40 you will set off most hospital equipment if connected. Normally 50-65 depending on what's just occured... No not that - then it's in the 100's :D
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    If you have lower than 40 you will set off most hospital equipment if connected.

    My 38 bpm measurement drew concerned looks from the nurse, a retest, testing again manually and then she asked if I was an athlete.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    If you have lower than 40 you will set off most hospital equipment if connected.

    My 38 bpm measurement drew concerned looks from the nurse, a retest, testing again manually and then she asked if I was an athlete.

    Was this while she was undoing your flies too?

    Pfft :P
    _
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    If you have lower than 40 you will set off most hospital equipment if connected.

    My 38 bpm measurement drew concerned looks from the nurse, a retest, testing again manually and then she asked if I was an athlete.

    Was this while she was undoing your flies too?

    Pfft :P

    My flies were already undone. I didn't even realise you could use 'down there' as a pulse point!
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  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    walkingbootweather wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Seems quite a few of you might be suffering from Bradycardia

    Mrs WBW just back from a trip to the sales with my flexible friend. One look at "how much money she had saved me", certainly pushed my heart rate up. Think I might be suffering from Barclaycardia.

    seemingly different to eke's "flexible friend"...
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  • jzed
    jzed Posts: 2,926
    44 sat in front of the computer.
  • Wrath Rob
    Wrath Rob Posts: 2,918
    JZed wrote:
    44 sat in front of the computer.
    Really? I thought you were younger than that. Does your age change away from the PC? I think I've noticed it increasing when entering RP for a couple of laps :shock: ;)

    Having a cheeky day...
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  • optimisticbiker
    optimisticbiker Posts: 1,657
    52 sitting at my desk in a noisy open-plan development office... not bad considering I've just had my 3rd cup of coffee of the day
    Invacare Spectra Plus electric wheelchair, max speed 4mph :cry:
  • jzed
    jzed Posts: 2,926
    Wrath Rob wrote:
    JZed wrote:
    44 sat in front of the computer.
    Really? I thought you were younger than that. Does your age change away from the PC? I think I've noticed it increasing when entering RP for a couple of laps :shock: ;)

    Having a cheeky day...

    Definitely feel like 44 on the bike at the moment, especially around the park - but its only temporary (I hope). Heading of to resurrect the lappage thread.
  • Paul E
    Paul E Posts: 2,052
    Mid 40's and it peaks at 190 or so at max effort and nearly throwing up at the top of a hill
  • marchant
    marchant Posts: 362
    Until November 2010, I had a resting heart rate of 40bpm and the lowest recorded was apparently below 30bpm. I feel better now I have a pacemaker...
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    Sitting at my desk mine is 55.
  • Blacktemplar
    Blacktemplar Posts: 713
    Sitting at my desk after 3 cups of coffee and a slightly stressful morning - 54bpm. Slouched in front of TV, semi-comatose, the lowest I've seen is 44bpm
    "Get a bicycle. You won't regret it if you live"
    Mark Twain
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    It would seem to me that the average of us lot on here is below that of the average person.

    Who'd have thunk that a bunch of cyclists have a lower heart rate than average?
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