Andrew
Reged: 05/07/2008
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Hi all, i read quite a bit about monitoring your resting heart rate.
my question is, what is the best way to carry this out? do you go to bed with your HR monitor on, or put it on when you wake? as i think the latter will give a false reading.
thank you for any help, Andrew.
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hubbub
Reged: 22/10/2007
Posts: 513
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I check mine with a good watch when I wake up in the morning. If it's between 55 & 60 I'm happy, over 70 there's something not right.
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shimanoshaun
Reged: 25/02/2007
Posts: 182
Loc: jersey
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I believe wot hubhub was trying to say was he takes his pulse himself with his fingers, alongside a good watch/clock, count pulse for 10 seconds then time it by 6. Thing is can you get an accurate reading if your holding a morning glory 
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massi
Reged: 03/06/2008
Posts: 73
Loc: somerset UK
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when I first took my resting pulse I'd take a stethoscope to bed but it would blow my eardrums rustling on the bed covers.
best way I found was to take my pulse at my wrist before I moved a muscle. 15 seconds x 4 gives a very good accuracy.
Any movement after waking sends your heart rate soaring for a few moments.You want to try sample before that happens
As Hubbub says a higher than normal RHR is a very good indicator of illness or over -training etc
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bfergie
Reged: 19/04/2008
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Loc: Wickerman land,Scotland
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Testing your heart rate when you wake can be bad and both scenarios will give high readings because it depends who is next to you. If a thing of beauty then thy heart will race, if not it will also race in preparation of you fleeing from the building. Only if either alone or the person next to you has become so routine in your life that there is no effect on you, then and only then would you be inclined to take your pulse when you wake but this is only done to check if you are still alive!
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wuverley
Reged: 16/05/2008
Posts: 1490
Loc: Man of Kent
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This is the normal condition for most of us, age, familiarity etc.
I am sometimes woken by a 4 year old screaming " HELP", usually because she can't put a hat on satisfactorily
I wouldn't check ny heart rate then!
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hubbub
Reged: 22/10/2007
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buzz
Reged: 27/01/2007
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Loc: Ireland
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Simple.
One minute of counting the beat, just look at the alarm clock as you wake. I'm down to 52 this year, a lot to be said for staying off this site and riding the bike instead!
Thats my count before sex - Not that Mrs Buzz ever lets me get that lucky!
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daveno7
Reged: 04/03/2007
Posts: 359
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there is no ideal time to resting heart rate - the most important time should be the time it takes you to recover from some exercise... ie a run out on the bike...try and take your pulse soon after and then a few minutes after your breathing has settled etc..this can be at rest- the less recovery time means the fitness levels are better
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Scouser
Reged: 17/02/2008
Posts: 262
Loc: N Wales
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Thing is can you get an accurate reading if your holding a morning glory
I suspect not! No more than you'll get an accurate reading with a starlit sky on the mind.
I can't claim to be absolutely medically correct on this but two things to say:
1. I sometimes take a reading last thing at night using an upper arm BPM - if I am relaxed and all intend to do is snuggle a bit further under the duvet to go to sleep. This gives a good resting HR. Sometimes I do the check in the morning too soon after I am reasonably awake and have just shuffled above the duvet. HOWEVER - I am told that the most accurate reading in the morning is after you have woken and been to the loo to do functions in at least liquid kind, if not in the opther way too.
At night my resting HR can be down to 48. In the morning it's quite a bit higher in readiness for the day - mo0re like 60 something.
2. I had cause to accompany a friend to their cardiology appointment the other day, and the cardiologist said that they are generally unhappy with anyone's HR dropping below 56 bpm during sleep.
As it was not my appointment I didn't like chipping in and saying that mine is lower than that before I even go to sleep! I guess if you're exercising there has to be some give
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scm
Reged: 24/06/2006
Posts: 1229
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2. I had cause to accompany a friend to their cardiology appointment the other day, and the cardiologist said that they are generally unhappy with anyone's HR dropping below 56 bpm during sleep.
Well, the sort of people the cardiologist is likely to see in the course of his work are hardly likely to be very healthy, so he makes the usual medical practitioner mistake of thinking that the people he sees are "normal". Seeing mostly unfit and/or unhealthy people all day does not make them normal, just common - commonly unhealthy.
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hubbub
Reged: 22/10/2007
Posts: 513
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I had the low pulse, "enlarged heart" panic when I went to hospital for a kidney stone about 15 years ago. When I told the doc that I cycled 200+ miles per week and the normal resting rate was 42 there was a rapid change of mind. All of a sudden I was the fittest 40 year old they'd seen for a long time.
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hawker
Reged: 11/08/2007
Posts: 35
Loc: Central, a little to the side,...
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Most people apparently have their lowest heart rate first thing in the morning, but a minority, including me have their lowest last thing at night. My rate is easily 15 bpm higher first thing in the morning. The lowest I ever recorded - several years ago now - was 34, though 36 was more usual. Take-home message from that: it is not your pulse rate that tells you how fit you are compared to other people, it just tells you how fit you are/were compared to yourself on another occasion.
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