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Feb 2012
7:17am, 11 Feb 2012
4 posts
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Big Steve
My resting heart rate is normally 30-35 and reaches as high as 240 when I am running so I stopped wearing the heart rate monitor. Now I dont have anything to worry about. I am very overweight at 125kgs but i still manage 20 to 30 miles a week
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Feb 2012
8:53am, 11 Feb 2012
644 posts
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wiener dog
Mines about 45bpm when I get to work { test it as I work in a gym } but have noticed if I am stressed out can go up to nearly 70bpm as for testing it when running it can go up to really scary numbers of over 200 but I tend not to look at it as I figure I'm still alive so nothing too bad can be happening  What is weird and quite scary is when I run on a treadmill and have only just started the treadmill sometimes picks up the next persons HR so I think omg I've been running 3 mins and have a HR of 190!
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Apr 2012
2:59pm, 3 Apr 2012
1,505 posts
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ChrisThePuma
I was in hospital a few years ago (after collapsing during a half marathon - another story) and after an overnight ecg the doctor was speaking to some medical students about my overnight RHR results, and that normally they would be concerned that it had dropped so low, but "because i was an athlete blah blah"....
Made me glow inside
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Apr 2012
9:21pm, 3 Apr 2012
6,773 posts
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Caterpillar
Once upon a time, on a hot day after donating blood, lying on the bed for a few minutes waiting for permission to get up and go for a nice cup of tea and a custard cream, I had a heart rate of about 30. Very low blood volume results in very low venous return and very low end diastolic volume.
Nothing to worry about. It's fine. Ignore. My normal resting heart rate is nowhere near that low.
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Apr 2012
9:26pm, 3 Apr 2012
40,978 posts
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plodding hippo
One pint of blood would not lower your blood volume by so much
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Apr 2012
9:31pm, 3 Apr 2012
6,774 posts
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Caterpillar
Nah - it was dehydration, a hot day, being stupidly macho, and not having donated blood very often before. Felt sick and dizzy when I sat up. Big mistake. I don't do that now. I drink loads all day before donating blood.
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Apr 2012
9:34pm, 3 Apr 2012
40,980 posts
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plodding hippo
Still would not really matter unless you were 25kg like one of my pts
I deliberately DONT drink so i pass their silly inaccurate copper sulphate test
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Apr 2012
10:00pm, 3 Apr 2012
4,518 posts
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Chrisull
In the 40s isn't that common tho, as mentioned before in a previous thread I know of a runner from a local club turned in to hospital presenting feeling unwell with heart rate in high 30s - low 40s. They said he was fit as a runner, not to worry, sent him home and he died the next day :-(, :-(. Low heart rate *might* be an indicator of other problems.
In my 20s without any training I had a RHR of 63-64, now as fit as I've ever been it sits stubbornly between 51 and 56.
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Apr 2012
10:04pm, 3 Apr 2012
14,387 posts
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Johnny Blaze
43.
*gulp*
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Apr 2012
10:04pm, 3 Apr 2012
40,981 posts
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plodding hippo
Chris, it depends on what rhythm the heart is in
Low heart rate can be very serious if it is an electrical conduction problem(risk of heart stopping, or flipping into fast abnormal rhythm)
You might not always pick stuff up in a one off ECG9heart tracing).I expect the runner you knew of had one of those, but feeling unwell would make my alarm bells ring
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