Ming the Merciless
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Does not work in the case of the heart and blood vessels. Blood vessels are not fixed diameter pipes like in heating systems etc. I have a low resting HR and low normal blood pressure.
Resting Heart Rate
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Does not work in the case of the heart and blood vessels. Blood vessels are not fixed diameter pipes like in heating systems etc. I have a low resting HR and low normal blood pressure.
I'm by no means fit (not now anyway) 64 and have a hr as I sit here of 54. It drops to 45 when I'm sleeping - all as measured by my garmin watch. I'm not an athlete, I don't 'have' bradycardia. I've no idea why it is what it is and don't really concern myself with it anymore.
I'm a bit meh about my watch these days. It's useful and does correlate sometimes (though today I woke with a 100% body battery and a 99/100 sleep score - but feel nowhere near that, go figure) but I don't live by it. It's use comes when the numbers (my numbers) change; it can 'predict', and kinda validate, illness.
I'm a bit meh about my watch these days. It's useful and does correlate sometimes (though today I woke with a 100% body battery and a 99/100 sleep score - but feel nowhere near that, go figure) but I don't live by it. It's use comes when the numbers (my numbers) change; it can 'predict', and kinda validate, illness.
midlandsgrimpeur
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My rhr has never changed from my teens. My average HR for various power zones is lower now though which is a general indicator of improved fitness over the years.
KneesUp
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My resting heart rate is 44 over the past 12 months according to my Garmin watch. I’m in y early 50s, and I thint a lot of my generation never takes their watch off so that’s pretty much 365 days / 24 hours a day. 30 years ago I was riding my bike to work every day in my summer job and used to ride as hard as I could both ways - it was essentially a series of sprints between traffic lights with the occasional long draft behind a bus. I now know that would be classed as 30-40 minutes of fairly hard anaerobic exercise a day (I set off too late most mornings, being a student and all, and I just wanted to get home in the evening but I also used to try and get a higher average speed on my Cateye computer). My mum is a trained medical professional and took my resting hr with her nurses watch and it was mid 20s then. I think some of it must be genetic? I’ve always have some symptoms,of bradycardia (principally lightheartedness when I stand up) but my gp has never questioned it, and even my mum wasn’t that bothered.
