What Does Your Resting Heart Rate Say About You?

15 years ago when I had cancer, was overweight, smoked and drank my resting hr was over 100, these days it's in the low 40's 😀👍

My resting heart rate was in the 90's when I was overweight. I lost 60lbs while getting back in to shape/ changing my diet and it dropped in to the 50's!

My average resting heartrate is around 43 bpm. I measure it every night. I used to be a diabetic - but took up cycling 3 years ago, lost most of the weight and reversed the diabetes

One thing I would like to add is fluctuation in women's RHR when they are going as they are going through their cycle. 5 beats more per minute in a woman might just mean she is in the last half of her cycle and I would be willing to bet that has an impact on how training efforts feel. When I noticed how reliably my RHR changes based on my cycle I was baffled and fascinated. It makes perfect sense, but also it might just screw up your using your RHR as in indicator for overtraining, illness, etc.

I’m 60, have a RHR of 45. Always made the effort and kept in shape. Work as a groundsman so am always active; do yoga every other day.

49yo male, 6’-1”, 215 lbs, RHR of 80 just now. I’ve been getting back into shape since July (1 hr calisthenics for 3x/week), and finally started running again (3x/week) after not running since 2013! with a goal of completing a 10k race in March. This channel is great, so much info and motivation.

Mine is normally around 40 - 42, but gets recorded lower during the night by my Garmin most nights. I recorded 37 in an ECG in a pre op before a hernia op a few years ago, the Nurse was so worried, she called a Doctor in, the doctor checked me out and said to keep doing what I was doing! I'm 52, so, happy with it being so low.

Would love to see a video on the effects of consistently running in the Heart Rate Zone 2, and how long it typically takes to see results once you've switched to the 80% very easy 20% hard running method.

My lowest resting rate was 46-50 beats per minute when I was 19. I was serving national service in Singapore ( compulsory for all males) and was training to pass the standard obstacle course. We would run with boots and fatigues and webbing and carrying a rifle and 2 water bottles ( fully filled) over 1.5 km clearing obstacles. The training consists of doing the course once with full gear . Then another round without the water bottles . Then one last round with the rifle only. 4.5 km in total . We started training usually 2 months before the test date and we would get super fit .

Coming up to 50 year old and my resting HR is 43, very happy with that.

I'm 68, doing (a lot of) sports for 50 years, resting heartrate is around 60, have no sickness. And I dring really a lot of coffee, for over 50 years ! (black, no sugar). I am so happy/lucky that I found my path to sports as a young man.

I am in my early 30s and I recently started to track my bmp. I don't really exercise (the pandemic made me pretty homely and I work from home, so there is no need for me to go out) and my resting heart rate is between 60-75. When I get up every hour to do my "steps" on my tracker, I can get my heart to 115 bmp. I went to the ER not too long ago because I thought I had heart issues due to anxiety palpitations and they mentioned everything was healthy. I am definitely going to start exercising more to keep this muscle working for a very long time.

My resting heart rate is between 80 to 90. I’m 20 years old and I had a sedentary lifestyle but I started going to the gym 2 weeks ago. I hope I can lower my RHR

Mine is normally around high 40s late in the evening, sometimes 45. Can be in the 60s during the day, even resting. It rarely gets lower than that. I’m 58. I like to workout. It’s a bit higher than it used to be, but not much.

My RHR is between 37-41 bpm. I’m 54 and exercise daily. I run 10kms one day, workout with weights for an hour the next and repeat. I make sure I have a minimum of 10,000 steps a day, usually more. Eat well and try not to get stressed too often.

A cardiologist said to me that my resting heart rate is low because it’s part of my genetic inheritance- I’ve recently had resting heart rate as low as 49! Oh and she said that running may help. She fitted a 2 week monitor and we found that my peak heart rate was found on the third lap of a hilly parkrun course!!

Menstruation is also a huge factor. When approaching the period the resting heart rate increases. For me it’s between 5 and 10 bpm. I could predict my period solely based on resting heart rate.

Good topic. My HR is all over the place (post covid) but slowly getting there! :)

45y/o male. My RHR range is 55-65. I stand most of the day, lightly workout once or twice a week, drink about two cups of coffee everyday so I guess I could get it lower.

I love geeking out on heart rate related data. Thanks!