okwithmydecay@leminal.space to Running@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoIs your resting heart rate healthy? Here’s how to check – and what to do if yours is too low or too highwww.runnersworld.comexternal-linkmessage-square4linkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10
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minus-squareDroggelbecher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoLike, indefinitely? That’s hard to imagine!
minus-squareAda@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoI mean, it increases again when you lose fitness, but it stays larger than it was before you got fit, so it remains lower than it was initially In my case, when I was at my peak, I’d be in the high 30s, low 40s. When I lost my fitness, I sat in the mid to high 40s. Before I took up distance running in the first place, my RHR was in the high 50s.
Like, indefinitely? That’s hard to imagine!
I mean, it increases again when you lose fitness, but it stays larger than it was before you got fit, so it remains lower than it was initially
In my case, when I was at my peak, I’d be in the high 30s, low 40s. When I lost my fitness, I sat in the mid to high 40s.
Before I took up distance running in the first place, my RHR was in the high 50s.