Heart rate in mammals scales inversely with body size: a mouse's heart beats around 500 times per minute, whereas a whale's beats at around 10 bpm. This is a nice intuition, but actually the maths ends up slightly differently. I'm 6,4, 47 year old male and my HR is 55. I have more pipes but I probably have a larger heart as well that is used to pumping for my sized body. Your body grows proportionate to itself and it's size. My resting heart rate is about 45 in the morning (the correct time to measure) being a large person wouldn't make you need a higher heart rate. I am 6'6 and a half inch tall 265 pound male. I'm 18 6'2 ish 187lbs and my RHR is 50 it was tested 3 times with the same result by a diet expert that my university has paid for to get my diet establish(I'm a scholarship lacrosse player) i do have lab coat syndrome and i experience anxiety at the office but I would consider a visit because that seems high especially if you're slim The fitter you become the stronger your heart will get but still given the distance that your blood has to travel, your heart rate may still be slightly higher on average than other people who aren't quite so tall.

To move all of your blood around your body(given your height) your heart is likely to either pump faster or pump harder. If you think about your body as a system of pipes, the more pipes in the system, the harder the heart has to pump to push the blood around. This may just be because you are so tall. Yes, when you move around and exercise it becomes increasingly inaccurate but they are plenty good for resting heart rates.ĭoesn't work for me my heart rate is always faster on waking but calms down later, around 3pm is my realistic RHR measurement time. Try counting it instead of relying on those inaccurate devices.Įh, many of those devices are quite accurate for resting heart rates. Jonathan Bailey Christine bishop (2018).I'm 63 and I just checked my heart rate with one these fit bit at 7clock night and my heart rate was 60rbm is that normal cos my daughter 29 and her is 76rbm I am 55 and have a resting heart rate between 45-48 bpm,but I have done sport most of my life and am in the middle of doing insanity for the third time,my view is as you get older it's more important to look after your heart,vince 'At rest' means not active (and have not been active immediately prior to taking the reading.

Your HR will be considerably lower when asleep than 'at rest' but your sympathetic drive increases during waking and so you will be measuring a depressed but rising HR first thing in the morning upon waking. You measure your resting heart rate when you first wake in the morning I use and app on my iPhone :) How did you measure your resting heart rate? I don't eat badly (my family eats the same stuff and their heart rates are all fine) so what gives? Am I dying? Anyone have any idea why my heart rate is so high all the time? I've been exercising more lately and it won't go down. I'm 19, quite tall (over 6 foot), less than 10% body fat, about 65kg and exercise regularly but my resting heart rate has always been 80bpm (below average). Old CommentsĬommenting is closed on this page, though you can read some previous comments below which may answer some of your questions. Any comments, suggestions, or corrections? Please let us know.

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