Very Strong Pulse

It's normal. I had the same thing last week. When you press on your abdominal aorta (the main artery running under the abdominal area that causes your tummy pulse/movement), it should push your fingers upwards. When your body fat percentage becomes normal to low, it's quite common to see this. As for the strong beats, this is also perfectly normal after and during exercise. If you get any other symptoms such as feeling dizzy, headaches, irregular heart beats, or getting such palpitations outside exertion, then it's worth following up.

Dehydration will also make it more visible - how much are you drinking during and after workouts?

To the above poster, those are also both symptoms of dehydration - do you drink enough in general?

yeah i do normally - also often have quite high pulse rates at rest, sometimes irregular heartbeat, breathlessness and hereditary heart condition runs in the family so might as well get it checked out i think. everyone could probably do with more water though!

Yes, if you're getting an irregular heart beat and palpitations, definitely go and see the doctor. There are many causes of an irregular rhythm, ranging from the trivial to the more serious, but as you've got a history of a heart condition (in this an arrhythmia?) then it's important that you get it checked out.

when exercising more blood is directed to the muscles and the brain as they need more blood flow, this means that less blood is flowing to your stomach (partly the reason why you are supposed to wait an hour after eating before swimming/doing physical activity) and once you stop exercising the blood flow returns and because your heart is still working harder and recovering you do get a stronger pulse going into your stomach. Its common and you'd be surprised how synchronised your body can become, a lot of people walk at the same pace as their heart rate without even realising it. and a lot of muscle contractions occur with the pulse.

mitral valve prolapse, my dad. often not a problem but he had to have his repaired and i actually have symptoms unlike a lot of people with the problem. will do, my gp is crap though so might try to transfer first.

Any GP should hopefully be able to follow up breathlessness and palpitations at rest in a young person! Do you get anxiety attacks at all or do the palpitations come on at random? Your doctor might ask you to tap out the heart rate you can feel to guage irregularity. There's no point dwelling over it on here though, you're much more likely to be misinformed than even seeing a crap GP!