What's a Good Resting Heart Rate?

What’s your Resting Heart Rate?

🚴🏽‍♂️ As you get more aerobically fit, your heart gets bigger. The heart can increase in size by up to around 40-80mL from consistent aerobic training.

This means that at rest you pump more blood per beat and therefore need to produce fewer heart beats to deliver oxygen leading to a lower resting heart rate.

🧔🏽‍♂️ For men, a resting heart rate of:

55 BPM is top 10%

46 BPM is top 1%

👩🏼‍🦳 For women:

59 BPM is top 10%

51 BPM is top 1%

⚽️ Ronaldo reportedly has a resting heart rate around 32-33 BPM.

Resting heart rate typically fluctuates by around 10 BPM throughout the week based on sleep, hydration, caffeine intake, and EPOC from previous training.

Resting heart rate is influenced by genetics but interestingly doesn’t change significantly with age (although max heart rate drops fairly consistently year to year)

📊 So, where do you rank?

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[kispityu]

Its mind blowing. Cant even imagine how would it feel to have around 50 bpm while resting. Normally after I wake up i have around 60, but when the day goes by it goes up to 100 and its jumping between 70-100. When I have an extremely stressing day it can hit up the 120s and Im only 22.

[TrishCanyon]

At 71 my resting heart rate is 56. that puts me in the top 5%. I just walk and weight train moderately but daily. I just started training jiu-jitsu twice a week.

[Unpopularopinion]

I’m sitting at 45. I thought I was dying.

[pain]

I have adhd and my heart rate was always at around 90 when I was in bed(about 110 on medication). I thought that this was healthy, because I was skinny. After active exercise for about a year now (strength and cardio) my resting rate is at 70 now and I am super glad I feel like I took so much stress off my organs.

[TheHenk]

Mine is sitting around 36 lol Not kidding btw went to the cardiologist yesterday ✌️

[iamnotthatguy]

me who has a resting heart rate consistently over 100, guess i’ll die

[VenusStar]

Im a cyclist and also lift weights. When at the gym I can lift very heavy wait a few seconds and do my next set without my face even changing or breathing hard. Great stamina makes strength sustainable! Im 50 years old and my heart rate is below the top 1%, also drops as low as 30 bpm when im sleeping. 38 to 45 when awake. So fun to have, its trully a blessing.

[koraggelango]

Mine is 44-46 use to do cardio for 23-25 min 4km jogging regularly

[alexandresilva]

I measure 45 during the day. But my sleep tracker shows a min of 40-41 and avg of 45.
And if I’m standing it goes up to 60. Which one is considered the resting hr?

[Boankofa]

Mine's at 50 now. I do exercise regularly.

[Mozeart]

Mine was 42 this morning when I tested at the Doctors office. I just turned 40 in Feb and told myself this year I’m taking my health to a new level and getting back into star athlete territory. Next I want to test my VO2 Max.

[logan]

I am a 17 year old male athlete. I participate in endurance sports. My heart rate has been stuck around 70 BPM for the past 3 years. I also will randomly start to loose a lot of my fitness for no apparent reason.

[BillyBob-xiih]

29-year-old man and my RHR is 52-53, not bad!

[slightreply]

My resting heart rate is usually between 65-80 depending on if I’ve just woken up, then it will be much slower, if I’ve just exercised it will be higher

[katiewollan]

Mine is 48-52 throughout the week. I run regularly and am pretty active. Female, 29 years old.

[wilson]

Five-time Tour de France winner Miguel Induráin had a resting HR of 28bpm & a lung capacity of 7.8 litres. An aerobic animal..
* not including VO2max as HGH, 'roids, etc usage was huge in that era !!

[Fadecountier]

I am 28 with a RHB of 52. I’ll take it 💪

[noyelle]

My average is 44. Sometimes when i don't cycle for a few days it drops to 39

[QooUex]

Im testong and i ahve 39 is that good cuase ppl say 85-120 is normal

[briandeal]

My average resting is right around 40 but my resting heart rate can go as low as 31-32ish while I’m sleeping.