Heart Rate

I"m not as fit as I used to be but my RHR is 45. Has been that way for as long as I can remember.

My Garmin Venu is pretty accurate. I often check it against manually taking my HR and it's spot on.
 
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Thanks for the replies

@Kola-CT @greg0205 is it normal that a resting heart rate is taken when you're sleeping?

And yes - I'm def still going to check it out with a doctor, but I'll give it a few days as last night was terribly ill and going to get better in the next few days
 
Dolby said:
Thanks for the replies

@Kola-CT @greg0205 is it normal that a resting heart rate is taken when you're sleeping?

And yes - I'm def still going to check it out with a doctor, but I'll give it a few days as last night was terribly ill and going to get better in the next few days
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Yes, that is usually when you will be most relaxed.
Having said that, I sometimes get it being lower during the day when it is a really easy day.

Being ill will also have an impact on resting and active heart rate.
 
Kola-CT said:
Yes, that is usually when you will be most relaxed.
Having said that, I sometimes get it being lower during the day when it is a really easy day.

Being ill will also have an impact on resting and active heart rate.
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Thanks!

I’ll keep an eye out!
 
I find the Garmin watches fairly accurate having compared it with a Polar with chest strap as well as a decent blood pressure monitor - but it can produce strange readings at times.
 
Take the RHR reading just after you wake up and before you get up. As soon as you stand up the body has to pump extra blood around so the HR will jump.

Or during the day you can take it after lying down for 10-15 mins and relaxing and controlling your breathing, but then the stress of whatever is happening during the day can increase the HR, so best first thing in the morning before you get up.

By constantly monitoring your RHR you can quickly see when things are not right. However take an average before you panic if it jumps up one morning. Just having a bad nights sleep can have a big impact on RHR
 
100 when idle is not good, a friend of mine had that when he was sick with COVID 2 years ago, though in your case it could be any number of factors from stress to illness or even infection. Caffeine, alcohol or stress would also increase your heart rate.

When I was unfit, my RHR was around 80 and even that isn't good. Now it's around 50, sometimes lower and now my wife is worried that it may be too low. :laugh:
 
Kola-CT said:
Yes, that is usually when you will be most relaxed.
Having said that, I sometimes get it being lower during the day when it is a really easy day.

Being ill will also have an impact on resting and active heart rate.
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I cannot see anyway your heart rate during the day will be lower than when you are sleeping, unless you have a miserable nights sleep and/or are very ill.

But almost 10 years of heart rate measurements and my sleeping heart rate always is lower than the following days awake heart rate
 
syntax said:
I cannot see anyway your heart rate during the day will be lower than when you are sleeping, unless you have a miserable nights sleep and/or are very ill.

But almost 10 years of heart rate measurements and my sleeping heart rate always is lower than the following days awake heart rate
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It can and does happen that heart rate can be lower during the day if you are very relaxed, even after a good night's sleep and low resting heart rate.

To be more clear - I agree with @gregmcc that resting heart rate is best measured when you wake up, and average during sleep should be lowest unless you have a bad night's sleep or nightmares etc. but that does not mean it will never drop lower than that at times during the following day for a short while.

Not long after I made post #45 my heart rate dropped to lower than what my resting heart rate was for a few seconds (I had Garmin connect open at the time and was very chilled).
It is not uncommon for this to happen, but I will not take that as my resting heart rate for the day, it is just interesting to me when it does and shows what my state of mind/rest was at the time.

Only almost 10 years, that's real rookie numbers...
 
No idea with Garmin my my Samsung Galaxy Potato Active when doing it's own measurements as opposed to where I manually check heart rate goes all over the show.

If it measures when I am in the shower it averages 44bpm, if it does while I am driving it either fails or hits 100+ so yea just something to ponder.
 
AstroTurf said:
No idea with Garmin my my Samsung Galaxy Potato Active when doing it's own measurements as opposed to where I manually check heart rate goes all over the show.

If it measures when I am in the shower it averages 44bpm, if it does while I am driving it either fails or hits 100+ so yea just something to ponder.
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The Garmin and Polar watches I have used or am using are fairly accurate, but not to the point where I will make medical decisions based on the measurements, to me it is an interesting metric to track and can be useful for training - and for serious training it is still better combined with a chest strap.

Watched this a while ago, very interesting results, there are many other examples, just happened to see this one first -
 
Kola-CT said:
The Garmin and Polar watches I have used or am using are fairly accurate, but not to the point where I will make medical decisions based on the measurements, to me it is an interesting metric to track and can be useful for training - and for serious training it is still better combined with a chest strap.

Watched this a while ago, very interesting results, there are many other examples, just happened to see this one first -
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Yea I don't do much training as it were, like having a watch though and it is nice to get notifications while driving or whatever.
 
Dolby said:
It’s not during an activity. The warning is high heart rate - but when not active for 10 minutes.

In other words when high rate when it shouldn’t be
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Are you drinking at the time?

Like alcohol I mean.
 
Dolby said:
That’s a pretty ‘good’ excuse for the abysmal battery life of an Apple Watch :)

‘The battery is enough!’

I mean we may as well just stop trying to get the best battery life on all our mobile devices and call it a day. Who needs progression in life anyway ;)
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Evidently it works better by not giving false positive on heart rate readings…

There is the new Ultra just for the likes of yourself.
 
Kola-CT said:
It can and does happen that heart rate can be lower during the day if you are very relaxed, even after a good night's sleep and low resting heart rate.

To be more clear - I agree with @gregmcc that resting heart rate is best measured when you wake up, and average during sleep should be lowest unless you have a bad night's sleep or nightmares etc. but that does not mean it will never drop lower than that at times during the following day for a short while.

Not long after I made post #45 my heart rate dropped to lower than what my resting heart rate was for a few seconds (I had Garmin connect open at the time and was very chilled).
It is not uncommon for this to happen, but I will not take that as my resting heart rate for the day, it is just interesting to me when it does and shows what my state of mind/rest was at the time.

Only almost 10 years, that's real rookie numbers...
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I really still doubt that an awake heart rate is lower than a sleeping heart rate. Yes, you might get some days when your awake could be lower than a day when your nights sleep was awful, but almost always your sleeping heart rate will be lower than your awake, regardless of how relaxed you are

Some conditions like apnea might cause higher sleep heart rates but again, these are not the norms.
I would say at a time when it might look like it dips below sleeping heart rate, is likely a misreading from the watch more than anything.

Just looking at things logically, it wont make sense that even awake, you can get it lower than when asleep.
 
syntax said:
I really still doubt that an awake heart rate is lower than a sleeping heart rate. Yes, you might get some days when your awake could be lower than a day when your nights sleep was awful, but almost always your sleeping heart rate will be lower than your awake, regardless of how relaxed you are

Some conditions like apnea might cause higher sleep heart rates but again, these are not the norms.
I would say at a time when it might look like it dips below sleeping heart rate, is likely a misreading from the watch more than anything.

Just looking at things logically, it wont make sense that even awake, you can get it lower than when asleep.
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Pfft, my waking heart rate sometimes dropped to 10bpm lower than my sleeping heart rate. But my bradycardia was caused by my heart medication, so yeah. :P
 
can be many things that make it go higher,
are you a smoker? drinker?
medical conditions?

this is why heart rate monitoring was reserved for Medical experts in the past,

at least they could tell if it was signs of a serious issue, or just the fact you watching it constantly
and mentally manipulating the results
 
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