Hi. I have some concerns in regards to my low resting heart beat. Here's some background :
I'm a fairly steady lap swimmer, swimming about 2 km in under 40 mins about 5 times a week. I generally do 1000 m in about 16 mins taking between 100-120 breaths and the rest is at not much of a faster pace. I usually finish up with 35 or m on one breath.
I have just had a heart monitor strapped to me for 24 hours and it came back with a dozen or so minutes where my pulse was sub- 40 with the lowest being 34. My doctor is concerned and thinks I should see a cardiologist.
I was wondering if anybody else out there has a similiar heart rate with similiar swimming amounts.
Many thanks
Eoin
I really hope it's nothing in your case but let me tell you my dad's story. Background: he was 64 at the time, had just swam at Nationals and runs and/or bikes every day. He swims about 3 times a week. Needless to say, he's in good shape! One day he was running with his heart rate monitor on and felt sluggish and like his legs were heavy. He went in to a cardiologist for a stress test. After 2 min on the treadmill his heart rate was still only 34. So they did a catheterization, stopped that and within a few hours he was in having triple bypass. I'm not telling you to scare you but he is a good example of a fit person with a heart problem that he picked up with his heart rate monitor. His heart problem is a genetic thing so I watch my heart rate as well. Fast forward over 2 years and he's fine now. He's swimming, biking and running like normal. Back to doing triathlons, too. THe only set back was tearing his quad tendon while mountain biking 4 months after his heart surgery.
I'd say get in to a cardiologist and see what's going on. Let us know what happens.
Alison
I really hope it's nothing in your case but let me tell you my dad's story. Background: he was 64 at the time, had just swam at Nationals and runs and/or bikes every day. He swims about 3 times a week. Needless to say, he's in good shape! One day he was running with his heart rate monitor on and felt sluggish and like his legs were heavy. He went in to a cardiologist for a stress test. After 2 min on the treadmill his heart rate was still only 34. So they did a catheterization, stopped that and within a few hours he was in having triple bypass. I'm not telling you to scare you but he is a good example of a fit person with a heart problem that he picked up with his heart rate monitor. His heart problem is a genetic thing so I watch my heart rate as well. Fast forward over 2 years and he's fine now. He's swimming, biking and running like normal. Back to doing triathlons, too. THe only set back was tearing his quad tendon while mountain biking 4 months after his heart surgery.
I'd say get in to a cardiologist and see what's going on. Let us know what happens.
Alison
