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...sounds like she's in perfect health, so don't accept any excuses when you get home; get in there... 😉
I'd agree that 10/9 is really, really low.
I thought it wasn't uncommon for a lot of atheletes to develop abnormally low heart rates and blood pressures precisely because of what they do.
Unless my phsyiology lecturer is wrong...your doctor is a quack.
I thought it wasn't uncommon for a lot of atheletes to develop abnormally low heart rates and blood pressures precisely because of what they do.
The aim is to maintain a cardiac output of lets say 5 litres a minute. Now if you think of a heart as a pump, people who do a lot of training tend to improve their muscles and their heart is included, therefore their pump is more efficient and thus it can run slower as it pumps better each time so you would expect a very fit person to run a lower pulse/heart rate so average is 60-70 and then marathon runners and the like might get down towards 40 beats a minute.
OP - your body maintains the bp at what it believes to be normal and what pressure is needed to ensure your kidneys get enough blood so i don't know what your doc is on about regarding low bp for your fitness:S your bp is what your body needs.... It is unlikely to be too low for your needs or your heart rate would quicken?
Yeah Adam, had a proper look at some reviews it seems they don't have a propensity to get hypotension, however athletes tend to have slightly lower blood pressure than average. So I still don't get the guys comment. The rest I already knew 😛 but thanks.
On a side note I'd heard Tour De France riders often die early because of over training the heart muscles. BS?
I don't think the OP should be worried, she should get another doctor instead unless the doctor was talking about something else.
On a side note I'd heard Tour De France riders often die early because of over training the heart muscles. BS?
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000192.htm
or
http://www.annals.org/content/130/1/23