What Is A Healthy Heart Rate - What Affects Heart Rate - What Is Maximum Heart Rate

In this video we look at what is a healthy heart rate, what affects heart rate, and how to take your pulse. We also look at normal heart rate as well as exercise and heart rate.

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What is heart rate?
What is a healthy heart rate?
What is a normal resting heart rate?

Heart rate is the number of times your heart beats in a minute. It is measured in bpm or beats per minute. A healthy, Normal resting heart rate is usually between 60 and 80 beats per minute. The resting heart rate of a woman is usually about 10 beats more per minute than that of a man in the same age range, and elite athletes can have a resting heart rate near 40 beats per minute.

This is because Individuals that are fit have a larger stroke volume of the heart. Stoke volume is the amount of blood ejected from the heart per beat. So, the heart of someone who is really fit does not need to beat as many times to have the same output of blood as an unfit person.

Another thing that has a major effect on heart rate is stress. During stressful situations the body releases the hormone adrenaline which causes an increase in heart rate, which is beneficial when you are in danger, but unhealthy in everyday situations.

When you are sitting and resting, your heart beat will be lower, and as you start to move around, your heart beat will increase. When you exercise your heart rate will vary, depending on the intensity of the exercise, your age, the position your body is in, standing vs. lying down, your current fitness level, the type of exercise you are performing, and the temperature and humidity that you are in. Medications can also have a dramatic effect on heart rate.

As we get older, our maximum attainable heart rate decreases. There is a simple equation that is used to estimate a person’s heart rate max. 220 – your age, so for instance, for a 35 year old person, the equation would be 220 – 35 = 185, so their max heart rate should be somewhere around 185 beats per minute. That would be at full physical exertion, like sprinting all out. There is some margin for error of estimating heart rate max, so this number will give you a general idea.

There are many training devices that will gauge your heart rate throughout your day and exercise sessions, or you can do it the old fashioned way put the tips of your fingers on the blood vessel on the thumb side of your wrist. Use a timer on your phone and count the number of beats for 10 seconds, and then multiply that number by 6. For example I counted 11 beats, so 11 times 6 is 66. That means my resting heart rate is at 66.

Timestamps
0:00 What is a normal heart rate?
0:25 What is stroke volume of the heart?
0:39 Stress and heart rate
0:52 Other things that affect heart rate
1:20 Formula to estimate maximum heart rate
1:51 How to check your heart rate

And that be the basics on heart rates.

[lazyrocky]

am i the only one here bc of gym in online classes

[arisphobic]

Who else is here from their gym/P.E. Teacher?

[name-soev]

my PE teacher is going to ruin my recommended videos

[dangerousdaddy]

who else is watching this for online class ?

[zetony]

I can't be the only one sent here by I teacher. Like this if your teacher sent you here

[CKthadriplord]

POV : your PE teacher sent you here and instead of watching the video you r reading the relatable comments 👊🏽😎

[charlesrobert]

I'm 71 and my heart rate was 41-43 so my doctor prescribed Levothyroxine, its now 53-55 with oxygen 97. I thought a slower heart beat was great news because some turtles can live up to 300 years and I was hoping to do at least half that.

[WiWillemijn]

My heart rate is always above 90. When they monitored my heart (I was laying down) it was at 135. It's because I'm too stressed all the time.

[NVChampion]

Your vid was one of my work and thank you for putting the trans scrip in description

[astralklein]

I'm 27, underweight and in the last 3 years had a bad lifestyle plus physically not active bcs i have a desk job and rarely exercise. I spent most of my time sitting. My resting heart rate right now is 96-108.
Right now I'm just starting to change my lifestyle and will do 30 mins cycling daily and other exercise to build muscle. Let's see how it goes after few weeks and months.
From what I know, you can only lower the resting heart rate gradually so it will take some times until I can see the result.

[THICCMIDGET]

Why PE teacher did you have to bring me here...😩

[srikanthtupurani]

Some people say normal heart rate is 60-100. Different people say different things. The problem is when people learn that normal rate is 60-80 and their heart rate is 90 they feel so tensed. Even the thought of high pulse is the reason for high pulse.

[paulawolf]

Im here for online I lowkey dont care about my heartbeat as long as im still alive smh

[SlippySplash]

WOW so informative, i totally CARE about my stupid heart beat, these stupid assigments smh

[Averagerunn]

My resting heart rate have been under 40 many times but it depends on how relaxed I am.Sometimes higher quite obvioulsy. I work out 4 to 5 Times a week

[tonyborg]

Mine 45 - 50 always 63 and over weight doctor told me its good.

[adriancristea]

Multiply by 6....yea right. I want to see you during a hard cardio session multipling numbers like 27, 24, 34.
Just take the HR for 6 secs and X10....

[a_literal_crow]

Everyone's here because of their teachers and I'm just here 'cuz I'm curious

[downbntout]

Fitness is the normal! What's common, 60-80 bpm, doesn't correlate with longevity or any other measure of HEALTH at all. Common doesn't equal normal.

[SharlenesJourney]

Everyone here from gym class and here I am here cause I’m getting old and having heart issues😭