Resting heart rate is high, any advice?

My resting heart rate is high at nearly 90 beats per second, this doesn't seem right.
Will I die tonight?

dont drink any more coffee?

Probably. Any decent bikes likely to come on the market ?

90 beats per second…. you are a bird.

its proberbly up because you're worried about it being up.. get him to bring you a tea and put your feet up for 15 mins!

When my resting heart rate shot up it turned out to be a DVT. It got progressively worse because I didn't get the message for a couple of days until I started getting dizzy and falling down a lot.

Keep an eye on it. The NHS is wonderful when you need them 🙂

Could be a few things,you may have a virus,lack of sleep,overtrained, stressed out,unfit,over weight etc etc etc or maybe you've just had too much coffee…..

BTW I'm guessing that you meant minutes & not seconds….

Whoops should have put minute, durrr, trying to multi-task as usual.

Yes, I suffer from fatigue syndrome, so I'm guessing you are on the right track emac65. Not over weight though.

Edit; redthunder – all my bikes are too small for you 🙂

I thought mine was a bit high resting at 70. Had to go to my Gp for something and brought the subject up. Had an ECG and it showed up a problem with the timings between the left and right ventricles.
Having a monitor fitted next week so they can see what's happening.
Still training hard and not planning to cancel my first road race of the season.
If I have a got a bit of a problem it won't mean having to stop. However I'm told that if I do have this problem my heart might not be that good at supplying oxygen rich blood to my muscles under pressure so I'll have problems getting anywhere in races.

If you are genuinely worried go to your GP rather than asking advice on here. Many people on here will happily give you advice with no medical experience, or knowledge of you.

Exactly
Get it checked if youre worried, glad I did.

are you dead yet?

Yep: died 2 hours ago.
Now form an orderly queue for my bikes. 😉

Oldgit – that sounds awful, will indeed get myself checked out.
Thanks for all the advice.

My heart rate used t take ages to slow down after a ride. 6 hours after a ride it would still be up at 120. I cut out alcohol sugar and yeast from my diet and my heart rate has dropped to 60 or so and recovers much quicker after a ride.
Heart rate issues can often be due to food intolerances and I can't believe the difference my diet has made to my heart rate. Sleep much better too now.

old git, 70bpm and you were concerned enough to check with GP? no other symptons?

check the chart here
http://www.netfit.co.uk/fitness/test/resting-heart-rate.htm

seems 70 is about average

cheers for the link rocketdog. just tested mine and looked it up. 55 bpm age 36. i'm an athlete now it says. (puff whizz etc walking up the stairs) lol.
best news in ages.
cheers

well it is the internerd, so don'y trust it completely

Eh? Mine last time I checked it was around 45? At 32 that means I am somewhere below athlete?

RHR is a bit like BMI. Not to be trusted and certainly not a great indicator but good to keep an eye on for a general check on your health.

What was your RHR? Was it significantly lower? What you done tonight/today? What you doing now? Best to measure in the morning (if you live that long).

As always if concerned see a professional with a verdict as opposed to punters with an opinion.

Seems I'm an athlete.

I think I must be a new special kind of really slow athlete.

Drinking 6th can of beer and rolling another fag whilst sitting at computer, nearly mid-40's; 56 bpm – I'm an athlete.

Well compared to the lardy types in Tesco I am anyway.

Phew rate is alot lower tonight.

Hopefully back to athlete status soon ( I wish).

RHR is a bit like BMI. Not to be trusted and certainly not a great indicator but good to keep an eye on for a general check on your health.

Agreed mine's 42 which would put me in the elite zone which I'm certainly not. Once I start exercising though it soon shoots up. Recovery rate is a better indication of fitness.

Whats your normal resting HR ? I doubt its 90. Its good to get a baseline when you feel well rested etc. Measure it every morning as soon as you wake up and before any dawn breaking activities. From this you'll be able to forsee when you are tired/overtrained or about to get sick. Its quite incredible. My resting is 36, i know that to be absolute. Anything about 55+ for resting means I am about to get sick and usually a cold sort of thing – always 24hrs later. Might sound a bit anal but i do check it every few days and monitor how i feel. 90 is quite high though but depends when you took it. Wake up is the most accurate.

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cheers for the link rocketdog. just tested mine and looked it up. 55 bpm age 36. i'm an athlete now it says. (puff whizz etc walking up the stairs) lol.
best news in ages."

Had an ecg recently before seeing doc re my highish bp. He reckoned for my age ecg look great but he was concerned that my rhr had dropped to 50 during test.

So @55 what does that make me re an athlete????

hmmm… 42 BPM… im 15 years old and train lots. 🙂

A low resting HR means…you have a low resting HR and not much else. Its not really a sign of major conditioning. Recovery from maximum and threshold HR's is more of an indication.

trekster – awesome i think
check the chart here
http://www.netfit.co.uk/fitness/test/resting-heart-rate.htm

http://www.netfit.co.uk/fitness/test/resting-heart-rate.htm

My resting heart rate is not on that chart, what do I do now?

Which just goes to show what a load of old bollocks it is as a guide. I knew a chap who had a resting heart rate of 80bpm, he was the most chilled out individual going and was lightning fast on the track. He just had a high resting heart rate.

Glad yours is back to normal bunnyhop, as above, it was just a temporary thing. They can reset you if it gets too high I believe.

NZCol – Member
A low resting HR means…you have a low resting HR and not much else. Its not really a sign of major conditioning. Recovery from maximum and threshold HR's is more of an indication.

+1

I mean to monitor mine better than I do as it is a good indicator for me of getting ill. First thing in the morning before getting up, at other times there are so many influences! But at the moment there is no point, I am sleeping so badly, often waking up in a panic that I know it will be up.

It is probably worth you getting in the habit of taking it regularly, then you can see when to back off with riding and when to ride. don't want you getting ill again!

Nooooo, don't slow it down, get it higher! Just think, if it's 90bpm when you're resting, get it up to 270bpm while you're working, you'll be knocking out louvre blinds faster than Hilary's!

I was told your true resting heart rate shoul only be checked when you first wake up. Mine would be reasonably normal then

martyc – that link triggers a malware warning from Google Chrome, suggest people avoid it.

I bought a home checker partly because I am a hyprochondriac. Resting first thing in the morning is 48bpm. Resting during the day is 52-54bpm. My heart rate also drops dramatically quite quickly after exercise. Say I do 30-40 pressups etc etc.

Im also overweight for my height, 35yrs old. Wierd as I am sh1t on a bike (climbing etc). However I can carry heavy weights and I can carry a bike up a hill very easily with no probs.

If your heart rate takes along time to drop after a ride- get it checked. that is not right in my book.

90bpm resting- get it checked asap bunnyhop IF your normal resting rate is lower and its consistently 90 at the moment. Is it racing/spiking as well? Do you feel light-headed at any point?

Ps. You could be the fittest/healthiest person in the world and still suffer a heart attack IMO (if your thinking it cant be a prob).

Let a Doctor decide.

@ Rocketdog, I did have bad chest pains but they were purely muscle related, so it was only by chance it got picked up.
TBH I was suckered into the low rate = a high level of fitness. I've always raced and done lots of 'big' stuff so I thought mine should be lower.
We'll see. I think later they'll check my blood after excersise as that might be the only real problem i.e lack of oxygen in the blood at the high end.

martyc – that link triggers a malware warning from Google Chrome, suggest people avoid it.

Yeh, both the links trigger Avast as well, Virus or Worm it says.

I clicked though anyway because I like living life on the edge 🙂

wow, 40 bpm at 44yrs old …. im superman :O)

or supermans dad … Lol

Thanks once again for all the serious and funny advice.

Hillary's blinds, now there's some competition.

Mines 52-54bpm and Im 39yrs old .. Athlete!!

Whats concerns me more is that during a tough ride my bpm can go as high as 205bpm … but my highest bpm is supposed to be 180something according to the web experts..