Okay, okay, I'm tired of arguing weight with Aquageek and company...and Centaur brought up a very neat idea.
So answer me this, if you're so inclined to: What's your resting heartrate? There are a few who say theirs is below 55, and some who say it's right around 60.
To try and get a slightly less askew measurement, try taking it while you're sitting right here, reading this. Hopefully, you're on the computer during the day, either at work (shame on you for being on the boards at work!) or at home (I won't question that), or somewhere, and you sit down for a few minutes at least. Take your heartrate, and answer the poll, and we'll see what we come up with.
I'd start by telling you mine, but I had an asthma attack this morning, and as a result, my resting heart rate is higher, around 68 bpm's. Typically, it's 54. Stupid asthma. Makes me feel like I've been hit by a truck. :(
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Originally posted by SWinkleblech
Scansy- Maybe you were just a little confused and it is your max heart rate that matches your IQ. Then you can be in great shape and be smart.:D
Gee thanks. But it is quite obvious you don't know me very well!;)
Originally posted by fatboy
Good point. Probably quite a few!
Did mine last night or the night before, and it was lower than it's ever been.... 32.
Usually around 36-39.
But I'm still a slow runner and swimmer... go figure. Even so, it's nice at the age of 55 to have that kind of heart rate. Oops, have to raise it pretty soon. Off to run a 5k and swim my master's practice right afterward!
Have a great day, folks! :D
Many moons ago I was lucky enough to spend two intense weeks at the Olympic Development Training Camp in Squaw Valley (before Colorado Springs); we had a physiologist assigned to us, I guess it was the early days of the sports medicine and bio-revolution, I figure they were starting a comprehensive data collection routine.
Anyway, he used to run around during workouts grabbing our throats during the rest intervals. He used a special wrist watch to time his counts. It was hilarious to pop up for a shortr interval and have him come up from behind and try and grab you.
As part of his regime, during every morning workout we'd stop after one hour, climb out for 5 minutes and drink orange juice and eat a pastry. We thought this was the lap of luxury, but he explained this was to see if it helped or hurt our energy output and HR in the second hour, assuming we could digest it fast enough. It wasn't always so great within the main series, in terms of digestion.....
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I woke up in the hospital after the cross Lake Ontario Swim the water temp was in the 40s and everyone had been pulled out. When I woke the doctor was taking my pulse, he said that is better 15, I multiplide by 4 and figured 4 x 15 equals 60. The doctor said no 15.
48 right now sitting at work. In the morning in bed it is usually in the lower 40's.
Before untreated thyroid disease (Graves) it was 80 at rest. This was also before years of intense anaerobic training.
My only complaint is that inbetween intervals, my pulse does not recover (lower) as quickly as my training partners.
A good sign of fitness is being able to get your BPM very high during exertion and then having it lower quickly.
