resting heart rate too high?

NickNack

apparently you can be TOO fit, which basically means your heart rate is too slow. doctors end up ordering you never to do exercise again! lol i doubt thats going to happen to anyone here anytime soon

Nah thats rubbish.

Reply 23

Its better to have a faster beating heart than a relaxing heart :wink:

Its if your heart rate is lower than 50 bpm, that you should be seriously worrying as you can easily die of heart attack, angina or slip into a coma :p:

Last time I exercised I was 210 bpm

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Reply 24

Vhisko

Its if your heart rate is lower than 50 bpm, that you should be seriously worrying as you can easily die of heart attack, angina or slip into a coma

Thats such a load of *******s, honestly, where do some of you people here this ****? There are plenty of people in the world with resting heart-rates below 50bpm that don't just slip into a coma, take 99% of most elite endurance athletes for example.

Reply 25

imasillynarb

Thats such a load of *******s, honestly, where do some of you people here this ****? There are plenty of people in the world with resting heart-rates below 50bpm that don't just slip into a coma, take 99% of most elite endurance athletes for example.

Yes but elite endurance athletes train themselves do do this, its nothing normal for a usual person.

I don't see why having a low heart rate at rest is something to be proud of.

Reply 26

Right, so if a "normal" person does some endurance training do you not think his resting heart-rate will lower over time if they train correctly? Your heart rate lowers as you become fitter, as your heart becomes bigger and stronger, and your cardiovascular system becomes more efficient, it doesn't mean you're going to fall as leep and never wake up.

Reply 27

imasillynarb

Right, so if a "normal" person does some endurance training do you not think his resting heart-rate will lower over time if they train correctly? Your heart rate lowers as you become fitter, as your heart becomes bigger and stronger, and your cardiovascular system becomes more efficient, it doesn't mean you're going to fall as leep and never wake up.

Yes but I was thinking we are talking about 'normal' people in this thread from which the majority would not train and exercise, for which reason their heart won't be bigger and stronger as you say.
Hence they will not have an efficient cardiovascular system and so if their heart rate decreases the heart won't cope with the extra stress.

So in conclusion, a person whom is untrained (unfit) will want a heart rate above 50 bpm to be on the safe side.

Reply 28

Most normal people do at least some exercise..

You wouldn't expect somebodies heart-rate to suddenly decrease from their normal anyway, would you?

Some people have genetically low untrained heart-rates as I said, there are probably quite a few people with resting heart-rates lower than 50bpm without ever having exercised at all.

Reply 29

SamTheMan

There's a test that checks how fit your heart is. Your measure your heart rate when you're resting then you do about 20 flexions of the knees by standing upright, placing your hands straight in front of you, perpendicular to your body and bending your knees 20 times. You then measure your heart rate just after the 20 repetitions and about 5 minutes after.

I don't think a low heart rate is a sign of health to be honest. Low heart rates run in my family. Both my parents have heartrates of about 60 and so do I, yet my parents are hardly active, apart from maybe my Dad and my granddad has heart disease.

Reply 30