Comments on: Low Resting Heart Rate – Does it matter?

By: Les

Les — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:23:49 +0000

My resting heart rate ranges from 45 to 53 and I take a cycle spinning class three times a week. Pretty high intensed. Should I be worried about it dipping to 45bpm? I will be 67 in December. I don’t have any dizziness or faintness.

By: Lee Curtis (UK)

Lee Curtis (UK) — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 10:01:00 +0000

FYI: My resting pulse rate is now 28.
I am 66 and swim 1K in the fast lane (sub 21 min) 5 times a week.
2 years ago my RPR was mid 30, and I could get 116 at the end of my final sprint.
Now it is 28 (taken on an ECG at the cardiac clinic), and I can only get 90 after the sprint.
Also have a 4 sec gap between beats in the middle of the night.
Have no dizziness etc or any ill effects at all, but Cardiac Clinic considers this is too low and am now to be fitted with a pacemaker in a couple of weeks.
(Does this qualify me for membership of the Zombie Club?? ).

By: james thornton

james thornton — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 02:47:41 +0000

my heart rate runs from 45 to 55 i am 87 have had a heart attack wow high should i let my heart rate go when i am just sitting around

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:49:36 +0000

You have to be very careful in correlating heart rate with fitness or longtivity, many of you are assuming that becuase you have a very low resting heart rate then you are either super fit or will live much longer than Mr or Mrs Average. That may be true but I have trained and ran with the world’s best athletes and it is true that many of the elite athletes have low resting heart rates but there are also a large majoroty that do not. Also, being underweight is generally considered to be a positive asset but you can be underweight and be extremely unfit.