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To ask your resting heart rate

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Kate489 · 18/11/2024 17:46

Mine is averaging 55bpm, which Dr Google says is too low unless I'm an athlete. I'm not an athlete. I would manage a 5km in 37 minutes at a push nowadays.

Wondering what yours is?

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YellowAsteroid · 18/11/2024 19:10

My resting HR is around 58 - sometimes up to 63. I'm very fit.

Imjustlikeyou2 · 18/11/2024 19:07

Why are everyone’s heart rates so low on this thread when the average is 60-90 doesn’t make sense 🤔

Toodaloo1567 · 18/11/2024 19:06

NeedToChangeName · 18/11/2024 18:39

73, according to my oximeter

Readings on this thread seem lower than I expected. I thought 50-90 was normal

I thought similar. Average for population is around 70bpm. I think people might be confusing resting heart rate with the lowest rate their watch shows during the night. This thread might be attracting people keen to show off? Either that, or there’sa few people on here telling some porkies.

weaselpatrol · 18/11/2024 19:06

Mine averages at around 55. I’m in my 40s and run 5 times a week.

DandyTealSeal · 18/11/2024 19:04

Mines between 37-44. I am so far from an athlete but I’ve had it checked out. No concerns raised.

Borgonzola · 18/11/2024 19:04

Normally about 65 but currently 82 - 6m pregnant.

JarvisIsland · 18/11/2024 19:03

Garmin ‘resting HR’ which is actually done overnight fluctuates between 49 and 55 depending on a number of factors, menstrual cycle, stress, activity levels etc. Sat at work but using the computer/phone etc is mid 60s - low 70s. Not a runner but do play a heavily anaerobic sport (stop/start so HR recovery rate is more useful/trained than an overall endurance athlete HR)

gamerchick · 18/11/2024 19:01

Hovers in the 50s. Normal for me.

changedusernameforthis1 · 18/11/2024 19:00

74 atm, but it goes down to around 58-62 when I'm asleep. I'm on beta blockers for anxiety and if I forget to take them it's usually around 110 but my GP doesn't seem that concerned.

YouveGotNoBloodyIdea · 18/11/2024 18:57

55 usually - I'm 70, walk every day for 30mins - 1hr depending on weather, bit of gardening, but no athlete. I also have naturally low blood pressure, so I guess this is just my normal.

Skyrainlight · 18/11/2024 18:57

Mine is 60 and I'm very unfit at the moment. Slower heart rates can be genetic. Mine has always been fairly slow.

ErrolTheDragon · 18/11/2024 18:54

50 according to my Apple Watch.

I'm nearly 64, and have treated hypothyroidism which maybe lowers it a tadge? Reasonably fit for my age

Anyway, I recently had a full MOT with stress ecg etc., no heart problems identified.

Amaranthasweetandfair · 18/11/2024 18:43

Mine is in the fifties, it went into the forties when my thyroid was playing up. They did do an ecg once and no issues. My mum was an athlete (I am not) but wonder if I've somehow inherited it 😝

ThisTimeNextWeekDavid · 18/11/2024 18:42

Around 50-55.

I’m 55 and work out pretty intensively around 4 times a week - combo of weights and functional.

Imjustlikeyou2 · 18/11/2024 18:42

@Dramatic same as me.

Imjustlikeyou2 · 18/11/2024 18:41

@GettingStuffed can I ask why they put you on tablets? Mine is always in the early 100s but my doctors seem unconcerned.

Dramatic · 18/11/2024 18:41

I'm mid 30s and mine is usually between 70 and 80 which I always think is quite high, it often spikes over 100 with very little movement

GettingStuffed · 18/11/2024 18:40

Naturally in the early hundreds but I have tablets which keeps it down to the mid 70s

NeedToChangeName · 18/11/2024 18:39

73, according to my oximeter

Readings on this thread seem lower than I expected. I thought 50-90 was normal

PlasticineKing · 18/11/2024 18:39

66 I run a fair bit normally but had a few weeks off due to injury

DaphnesCafe · 18/11/2024 18:39

Dolly567 · 18/11/2024 18:08

Reading all these has me a little worried now

Mines 86ish sometimes and if I slightly move goes up to 100! I'm only 32

Not overweight?

Don’t worry too much, mine is all over the place and I have regularly ECG’s (medicals at work). No issues. Everyone is different, as long as you don’t have any other worrying symptoms I’m sure it’s just your physiology.

bluebee17 · 18/11/2024 18:37

58-62

Imjustlikeyou2 · 18/11/2024 18:37

Mine is almost always over 100 if I’m not sitting down, has been since I was a teen (30s now) had an 24 hour ecg which they described as ‘normal’ 🤷🏼‍♀️

AnnaDelvorkina · 18/11/2024 18:36

54 today, 51 yesterday, 54 on Saturday. Have a heart monitor for health reading at the moment. Reassuringly my watch has the same figures.

Am almost 44, female, post ménopause (on HRT) and quite athletic. Doctors have always said my heart rate is fine.

romdowa · 18/11/2024 18:36

Around 80-110 but I have pots which explains that. I have on occasion seen a resting rate of 140 but that would be exceptionally rare