Heart rate

**SAFTA4Life** · Posted On: 2/24/2004 12:27pm

I took mine this morning. It was 60. Not as bad as I thought. Pretty good considering I'm heavy and out of shape. I could probably be a bad ass again in a matter of a few weeks.

**Necroyunus** · Posted On: 12/10/2010 2:01am

I know I am necroing so bad right now, but i felt it was more appropriate than opening the exact same topic again.

The thing I don't get is, I have been doing sports since I was like 7-8 or something (i used to go to those schools where you learn swimming, basketball, tennis etc)
And i have always been an active person.

Especially last 6 years. It has been that much since I have started doing martial arts and I have been training at around 4-5 days every week in this period. And since I like pushing myself a little I always trained for long periods, pushing my body,sweating a lot.

So I always thought I was an active athletic person, but after downloading this heart beat monitor thing on my ipod (at first i thought the software was ****, but later i checked it myself and it was right) i saw that my BPM changes around 70-75.

I mean, I do it at work, not in bed laying down or something, but still....

The posts up here show that even the guys that don't train a lot or not so active have BPMs A LOT lower than me.

well,WTF? Should I see a doctor？ or could it be genetic or what?

If anybody can give me some information about this, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks.

**ChenPengFi** · Posted On: 12/10/2010 2:32am

Check it at rest and at exertion of different levels.
There is a genetic component; some people have "high" resting HR and are still fit.
I have an unusually low resting HR for my relative fitness at around 50-5 bpm, i was consistently <40 10-15 yrs ago.
Taking your pulse is a fairly inaccurate way to measure HR imo.

**buzzbevan** · Posted On: 12/13/2010 10:16am

seeing as this has already been necro'd
two years ago my resting HR was in the high 80's now it is in the low 60's.
in those 2 years i've lost 3 1/2 stone and train 3 times a week.
i now have a sneaking suspision i may live to see my 50th birthday!

**Ketsueki** · Posted On: 12/13/2010 2:59pm

Damn.. Mine's 70. I've got the metabolism of a hummingbird and am almost never truly "at rest," but I still hope to see some improvement here over the next 6 months.