A leading sports cardiologist explains why we need to keep track of our heartbeats
  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    12 days ago

    One interesting thing that articles like this don’t often mention, is that when your resting heart rate drops due to fitness, it tends to stay lower even if you lose your fitness later on.

      • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        11 days ago

        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.