I’ve dropped from average of 50-55 to 44-46 in a month and a half, is this too low? I’ve only recently added swimming to my workouts - about 10-12k / Week - would this be the cause?
You are fine, when you get below 30, then you can start to worry. And yes, fitness increases will lower resting heart rates.
Anecdotally, I have a lower resting hr the morning after a long swim workout. I have my highest resting hr on mornings after a long tempo run, fwiw.
Resting HR low 30’s is typical for most swimmers.
Ah, the classic dick yardstick here on ST…resting HR.
Resting HR low 30’s is typical for most swimmers.
Wow. Where did you get that number?
Resting HR low 30’s is typical for most swimmers.
Wow. Where did you get that number?
I’ll also say, you will be hard pressed to find many people who have HR in the low 40’s let along the 30’s…
Stop posting bull.
My Garmin heartrate monitor has me at 48 bpm right now (understanding Garmin is not 100% accurate and it’s better to take the average of a few days), I finished a 50 mile moderate pace ride an hour ago so it is still high and I’m slightly out of shape right now (I’m 43 now but still swim 5-6 times per week, not on any medication). On a Computrainer it’s hard for me to get my HR up to 125 (but I’m a wuss too). When I swam D1 each year we had mandatory physicals and everyone was mostly around low 40’s BPM, although that was the middle of the day. Have any D1 swimmer post their heartrate. I never said it had any correlation with performance, as I am terribly slow at the bike and run despite training my butt off. I’d gladly trade a low heartrate for a fast IM time any day as a low HR gets you pretty much nothing in life.
Resting HR low 30’s is typical for most swimmers.
Wow. Where did you get that number?
I’ll also say, you will be hard pressed to find many people who have HR in the low 40’s let along the 30’s…
Stop posting bull.
Why would you be hard pressed to find people with a HR in the low 40s/30s?
Mine will hover in the mid 30 to low 40s and I’m not a super athlete. I’m sure there are a lot of people with a resting heart rate that low.
In my experience in the lab (intern) working with athletes of various backgrounds… I came across zero who were sub 40 resting. D1 swimmers included
Oh well… I feel like resting hr is the dick measuring contest of endurance athletes.
In my experience in the lab (intern) working with athletes of various backgrounds… I came across zero who were sub 40 resting. D1 swimmers included
Oh well… I feel like resting hr is the dick measuring contest of endurance athletes.
Interesting. Any specific research you were doing?
“In my experience in the lab (intern)…” which may be extensive…
“…I came across zero who were sub 40 resting.” which only points out you worked with a misrepresentative and small group (and probably never got true resting heart rate from any of them) for the point you are attempting to make.
it usually helps to have a bigger pile of knowledge than that which you attempt to heap upon others.
do a little homework and maybe some more lab work covering resting heart rate and come back with a full report.
The burden of proof is on you.
I’ve dropped from average of 50-55 to 44-46 in a month and a half, is this too low? I’ve only recently added swimming to my workouts - about 10-12k / Week - would this be the cause?
No biggie. 44-46 is pretty normal and not very low at all. I’m trying to get my resting heart rate to the mid 30s but its very difficult and takes a LONG time… I’m probably around 40-42 true resting heart rate which is right when you wake up in the morning…
In my experience in the lab (intern) working with athletes of various backgrounds… I came across zero who were sub 40 resting. D1 swimmers included
Oh well… I feel like resting hr is the dick measuring contest of endurance athletes.
Unless you were measuring peoples heart rates right when they wake up in the morning, you readings were probably 3-4 beats above their true resting heart rate.
this is true.
And it was just learning to use ekg and vo2 on various athletic types…
Other research isn’t generally geared toward athletes… Though I will say putting an ekg on a fit person is much easier than the avg american
Unless you feel weak and lightheaded you are fine.
Yep. Lots of FIT guys have low HRs. If your population is heart patients, then, I’d expect 50’s and 60’s at best.
For me, and probably for most guys, as your heart rate at rest drops, you are probably rising in fitness. But, does this mean you will set the world afire with fast race results? In my experience, N=1, not at all. So, it’s not a dick measuring contest. A dick measuring contest would be me saying I held 425 watts for an hour, or ran a sub 8 hour IM, etc. HR does not correlate well with speed, though there is some obvious implication for speed if fitness improves.
-Robert
you’ll notice no contest promotion or otherwise in what i said.
when measured properly, heart rate simply is what it is. it may indicate some things but certainly not what many think.
a little questionable lab work with a small group is not a good indicator of true resting heart rate among well trained endurance athletes.
Yep. Lots of FIT guys have low HRs. If your population is heart patients, then, I’d expect 50’s and 60’s at best.
For me, and probably for most guys, as your heart rate at rest drops, you are probably rising in fitness. But, does this mean you will set the world afire with fast race results? In my experience, N=1, not at all. So, it’s not a dick measuring contest. A dick measuring contest would be me saying I held 425 watts for an hour, or ran a sub 8 hour IM, etc. HR does not correlate well with speed, though there is some obvious implication for speed if fitness improves.
-Robert
The funny thing is that the real athletic dick measuring contest wouldn’t be training numbers or heart rates and all that crap it would be…What is you race PR 'cause that is all that matters but of course here you aren’t alowed to ask stuff like that because the slow people get offended by that sort of elitist thinking.