What is your resting heart rate?

[malaise]

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/fitness/expert-answers/heart-rate/faq-20057979

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=healthy+heart+rates+by+age&qpvt=healthy+heart+rates+by+age&FORM=IGRE

Mine is 60 beats per minute - our walking 20K a week is really working.

I think I'll celebrate by treating myself to some coffee icecream

[exboyfil]

1. 63 beats/minute

according to my Fitbit.

[malaise]

2. That's great

[LisaM]

3. Usually around 56, if my Fitbit is to be believed.

It tends to hover around that number.

[malaise]

12. Do you exercise a lot?

Here I am thinking 60 is great

[LisaM]

22. Yes, but I've always had low-ish blood pressure.

I think it's somewhat genetic in our family (but I do like to exercise). I've noticed that when I do the treadmill or elliptical, when I'm in cool down, my heart rate drops down to normal pretty fast (so if it's at 151 or something, it will drop to below 110 in less than two minutes).

[malaise]

23. My mom's side of the family have that low-ish blood pressure

Works for me

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Mine's in the 50's, usually.

But I take a medication that keeps it low. I have to really work to get it into the 60's or 70's!

[malaise]

7. That's low

way better than high

[CaliforniaPeggy]

41. True dat, on all counts!

It keeps my BP low too. Makes me AND my cardiologist happy!

[malaise]

44. Keep on doing what you're doing

[CaliforniaPeggy]

49. Oh yes, my dear malaise! You can bet on that!

I want to live a very long time!

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. 45-50.

[malaise]

9. Do you exercise a lot?

Curious

[NRaleighLiberal]

19. pretty active, pretty calm demeanor - also on a very low dose beta blocker

tend to get stress-induced PVCs and the beta blocker really helps.

[malaise]

21. Cool

[bhikkhu]

36. That's excellent, about the best mine ever was

back when I was in good shape and bicycled regularly. A bit older, out of shape, stressed at work and not exercising, mine sits at 60-63 now.

[dem4decades]

6. My Fitbit says 62 right now and i'm watching All In. Amazed that it's that low.

[ProudLib72]

8. High 50s to low 60s

I went to the natural science museum a few months ago, and they had a film about what happens to a person's body as they hike to higher altitudes. Before watching the film, you were supposed to put on a fingertip pulse oximeter so you could compare your pulse and oxygen saturation to the woman's in the film as she hiked from 9,000' to 14,000' elevation. Anyway, toward the end, there was this massive crack of thunder in the film. They must have turned up the sound just for that because it was really loud. Then they asked you to check your pulse rate (obviously, it should have skyrocketed because of the loud noise). Mine was 63. It hadn't really budged.

[malaise]

10. Clearly you will survive the Con

[uppityperson]

11. Used to be 80 since youngster, recently 70.

[malaise]

47. Interesting

Was higher when you were young

[ZZenith]

13. Coffee ice cream is always the right decision.

[Maru Kitteh]

14. This AM it was 61.

And you should absolutely treat yourself Malaise - it's a very important part of maintaining positive changes.

Way to go!

[malaise]

16. We always exercise but a few years back we decided to return to our favorite

walking spot. Now the exercise bike does not give me the work out I get walking. The early morning air and watching the sun rise surrounded by the sounds of birds is really pleasant

[radical noodle]

15. 80 bpm

but I'm 71 years old and in good health.

[malaise]

17. Clearly

[shanny]

18. 60

BP 110/70

[malaise]

20. I've been very lucky with my blood pressure

Got my mother's genes- it has never been high

[grantcart]

24. Ask me in Nov 2020 when it has a chance to rest

[malaise]

25. Hahahaha

Hope it's sooner

[Stinky The Clown]

26. 50. Has been for years

Yes, I exercise. Nothing crazy. A couple of 5Ks a year. Lots of walks with the pooches.

[malaise]

28. Cojple of 5Ks a year is a lot of exercise

[USALiberal]

27. 98.6

[malaise]

29. You're still in the healthy range

[USALiberal]

30. :-)

[malaise]

31. A 59 year old that we knew

was a hospital CEO and dropped dead last night from a major heart attack.
How did he not know that his heart was not functioning properly?

[USALiberal]

32. Scary for sure. You never know when it could end I guess. nt

[malaise]

33. How ironic - by the time they took him to the hospital

last night, he was dead. If it had happened earlier, they might have saved him.

[Poiuyt]

38. Maybe he didn't have good health insurance

Seriously though, many people are in denial. Someone relatively young like that might feel bulletproof.

I assume his hospital provided physicals, and those should have shown some red flags.

[malaise]

42. That's my point

and he did have decent insurance. I think bulletproof is the best word here.

[The_jackalope]

34. From late last July to October it was consistently 140 to 160.

Now, following cardioversion, it's 60 bpm.

[malaise]

35. Damn that is impressive

Wonderful

[The_jackalope]

40. I feel very lucky indeed.

I ignored my tachycardia for almost two months. When I finally went to emergency, I heard the resident use the phrase "heart failure". It scared the living/dying shit out of me. I'm only 68 ffs.

Don't ever ignore tachycardia.

[malaise]

43. Had to look that up

and agree. Take care now.

[helpisontheway]

37. 72....was 93 in 2015 when I got my first Fitbit. Nt

[malaise]

48. That's great

Keep it up

[NightWatcher]

39. My watch says it's 50.

[mnhtnbb]

45. Just took it and it was 64.

And I'm watching Rachel so it surprises me it's not higher.

[malaise]

46. Excellent

[Bayard]

50. Mine has been consistently low my whole life

Right now, it stays around 60. Back in my running days, it would be in the 40's before I climbed out of bed in the morning.

Waiting for rain and mud to back off now so can start walking again.

[Aussie105]

51. Cheap monitors

for blood pressure and heart rate available in many places.

They work well. Everyone concerned should have one. Tested mine against GP's reading, very close results.

Age 25, used to be 60 BPM.

Now 71, on blood pressure medication, resting rate up to 75, but pressure is under control.

(Giving up on a stressful job certainly helped.)

+1 on the coffee icecream!

[CanonRay]

52. Usually around 54

But it's been in the upper 40s

[womanofthehills]

53. 60 but it's been on low side my whole life

Yrs ago, when I was in a college PE class of about 100 women, we all had to take our blood pressure and mine was the lowest in the whole class. At the time it kind of worried me.

[Historic NY]

54. Averages 43-47

even since I had to stop walking and running.

[Grasswire2]

55. 45 to 50

Sinus bradycardia. And I take two BP meds that slow the pulse.

I did have one weekend where it settled at 40 bpm.

[pangaia]

56. 50-52

[smirkymonkey]

57. With Trump on the TV or without?

Huge difference.

[malaise]

58. ROFL

There are some very healthy people on DU

[Luciferous]

59. According to my Fitbit, 54.