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Heart Rate

Cliffhanger

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I've started monitoring my heart rate and blood pressure during workouts and yesterday I noticed it was barely increasing during dips, pullups, pushups, bench press etc. I tested my heart rate once using my fingers and then used the blood pressure monitor. It was around the 60 mark the whole time. My resting heart rate is about 44, but it usually does increase or at least it did on the the cycle ergometer in lab.

Why would this be happening?
 
Joker's Wild

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Your resting HR is 44 and it doesnt get above 60 when you are exercising?

My guess is either you're not working hard enough or you are really from the planet Krypton and should stay away from glowing green rocks
 
Danish

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Someone as fit as you would have your HR well on its way to returning to normal within 20-30 seconds of finishing a fairly low cardio impact exercise such as the ones you mentioned. If you are completing a set, then taking a measurement afterwards, this could account for a lot of it.

I'd invest in a cheap HR monitor to measure it properly. Even the cheap Polar one I picked up from Rebel (cost me 70 bucks) gives an average and max HR for my work out so you get more accurate figures of what your heart is doing mid-work out as opposed to when its quickly dropping back to rest after you've stopped moving.

How does it go when you do actual cardio work like running?

My resting HR is about 46, but when I run it averages around 145-155. Maxed it out at 185 when doing hill sprints. However even when I get it up that high its usually back to 100 within a minute or so of walking.
 
Pete Cash

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Quite funny this thread being made today. My resting heart rate is normally just under 70. So I am not superfit but still in the good range. Now I was working out at the gym a few days ago during my lunch break. Just went for a 30 minute run at a decent pace and then showered and got back into my workclothes, grabbed something to eat and then walked back to work.

So I am sitting at my desk and my heart starts pounding and I think its from the workout but it keeps doing it for like an hour. No chest pain or anything. Now this hasn't happened before so I start fully freaking out thinking I am about to drop dead and it gets worse. So I go to the hospital and they take my pulse and its 120 and my blood pressure is a little up. I get the works an ECG (and I had a cardiograph is it called ? a few days ago afterwards) nothing showed up, had a heap of blood work all fine, they gave me this tablet which dropped my heart rate down below 100 and they took my blood pressure again and it was fine. They kicked me out after my heart rate got below 100 but by the time I got home my heart rate had returned to under 68.

So my blood pressure was fine, nothing on either heart test and all my blood work came back as healthy. Is it just one of those things where I freaked myself out or what. It was pretty crazy.
 
Cliffhanger

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It rises more if I'm doing HIIT, running or cycling. HIIT burpees get it to over 100 pretty quickly, but even on the cycle ergometer, if my power output is under 300 watts then my heart rate is in the 70s. After 3 minutes at 350 watts it climbs to around 175. My max heart rate should be around.


I find it strange it's not responding to resistance training because I find pull ups (proper pullups, not crossfit pullups) and dips really hard, they're definitely not easy for me. I really struggle to pump out ten, so I was expecting my heart rate to increase a lot more than it did.

I'm just worried because heart rate has a linear relationship with oxygen consumption and oxygen consumption gives an indication of how much you're actually burning when you train.
 
Cliffhanger

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I give myself 1 minute for each set and use what's left over for rest, I generally get 30 second rests or less.
 
dogslife

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I once had sex after consuming 20+ vodka redbulls. Thought my heart was going to explode in my chest. I assume this information doesn't help ;-)
 
Cliffhanger

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The heart is central pumping organ of the cardiovascular system. It is approximately the size of a close fist and is a hollow cone shaped muscular organ. It is located in the thoracic cavity, between the lungs and behind the sternum. Blood vessels are responsible for the transport of blood to and away from the heart. There are three types of blood vessels; arteries, capillaries and veins. The arteries carry blood away from the heart, capillaries are where nutrient and gas exchange occur and veins bring blood from the tissues back to the heart.

Your heart pumps over 8000 litres of blood everyday.

The heart has four valves; two atrio ventricular valves: bicuspid and tricuspid and two semilunar valves, aortic and pulmonary. Valves maintain blood flow in one direction and thus prevent back flow.

The heart has four chambers. Two atria and two ventricles. The atria are collecting reservoirs and the ventricles which are responsible for pumping blood.

Cardiac muscle occurs only in the heart, it is striated and involuntary, but you can excite it. (Our brains are clever in that they took over this task for us. Imagine if we consciously had to get our heart to beat every second. Our voluntary muscles basically only need to help us fight for survival.
 
Cliffhanger

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The heart is central pumping organ of the cardiovascular system. It is approximately the size of a close fist and is a hollow cone shaped muscular organ. It is located in the thoracic cavity, between the lungs and behind the sternum. Blood vessels are responsible for the transport of blood to and away from the heart. There are three types of blood vessels; arteries, capillaries and veins. The arteries carry blood away from the heart, capillaries are where nutrient and gas exchange occur and veins bring blood from the tissues back to the heart.

Your heart pumps over 8000 litres of blood everyday.

The heart has four valves; two atrio ventricular valves: bicuspid and tricuspid and two semilunar valves, aortic and pulmonary. Valves maintain blood flow in one direction and thus prevent back flow.

The heart has four chambers. Two atria and two ventricles. The atria are collecting reservoirs and the ventricles which are responsible for pumping blood.

Cardiac muscle occurs only in the heart, it is striated and involuntary, but you can excite it. (Our brains are clever in that they took over this task for us. Imagine if we consciously had to get our heart to beat every second. Our voluntary muscles basically only need to help us fight for survival.
 
Rhino_NQ

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i've had the black dye put through my heart and also had a needle stuck into it.

Woldn't recommend it
 
adamkungl

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My sitting-on-the-couch-LU-posting heart rate is about 49.
I know it gets over 150 doing reasonably heavy cardio work at the gym but I've never paid it much attention.
 
Chicken_Hunter

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Mine sits at 50-60 resting. Can hit 160-170 doing intervals. Long slow distance will sit at around 150. Doing Squats or deadlifts it will jump up to around 140, then decrease to resting fairly quickly.
 
Cliffhanger

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I'm the same, took my heart rate straight after 15 minutes of HIIT burpees (1 minute exercise/30 sec rest) and it was up around 160, took it again after one minute of rest it was in the low 60s. I am not even kidding. It's freaking me out a little now, I think maybe I should see a specialist. Or ask one of my uni teachers.

Are there any cardiologists on LU?
 
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