What is a good resting heart rate for an active person? I think I remember reading that a normal resting heart rate is between 60-80 beats per minute. I think Lance Armstrong's rate is around 40/minute
Any ideas for what a reasonable goal should be? I'm 25 it that matters.
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Actually, I believe Lance's resting pulse is 32.
Good for men is 60; For women, it's around 70, ideal. The more you work your heart, the lower it'll go. Remember, it takes time --- I'm fairly active, but my heart rate still will jump all over the place, I can feel my pulse rise just from going from sitting to standing.
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I swam competitively for 8 years and my heart rate was 48/min at the time. Now it is still only 52-55/min, guess my running is good for my heart too
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Clickman, my heart rate will jump all over the place too, simply from getting up and taking a few steps.
32 beats per minute is incredible...I also know that to improve your cardio you have to exercise within a certain heart range. Since my main method of working out is 2.5 hours of tennis a day on the average, I can't carry around a heart monitor to make sure that I'm doing the right type of exercise! Hopefully tennis is a good cardio activity!
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when I was in the hospital, the doctors said that my heart was like an olympic athletes...it was 32. They said I should be around 40-60 if I was active and 80-90 non-active. Right now mine is 29-30...
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Well, theres a difference between low heart rate from starvation and low heart rate from exercise... The former is dangerous, the latter is less so.
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Mine is 75 but I really don't exercise. I'm working on it
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My resting rate is usually between 60 and 65 bpm. Google resting heart rates and you'll find the chart (I'm short on time or I'd do it for you)
How do you measure your resting heart rate? I guess I could google that.
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The easiest in my opinion, is to take your index finger and the one next to it (never your thumb) and put it on your wrist just a little up from where the hand meets the arm. You want to press lightly there on the thumb side. You should feel a rhythmic throbing. That's one of your arteries and the throbing is the heart pumping the blood in and out. Count for a minute. I count for a half and multipy by 2. Some count for 15 minutes and multiply by 4. Whichever is easiest for you. One thing to note. Make sure you've been sitting for at least 10 minutes for an accurate resting heart rate. Something so simple as standing increases your heart rate. Resting heart rate shows just how much effort your heart is putting out to keep you alive. More effort (higher beats per minute) usually signifies a heart that is working too hard for some reason, whether it be that the muscle is out of shape due to lack of excercise, or the nutrition it needs is off. Whatever the case, it's good to know what your resting heart rate is.
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