Do you know yours?
What is the RHR Resting Heart Rate? RHR is the number of times your heart beats in one minute at complete rest.
As a coach I look at the RHR for a few reasons:1.) an indication of fitness / activity level / training target heart rate
2.) how strong your heart is; the healthier the individual the less the heart has to beat because the heart has enough strength to pump out more blood in one beat (less fit, more beats per min)
3.) overtraining & illness; taking your resting heart rate in the morning a few times per week can indicate with a larger RHR your stressed, overtrained or starting to get sick. (chill out for a couple days)
4.) health and recovery improvement; the more you involve physical activity, healthy eating and a positive way of live, your RHR will start to lower and you will feel great. Additionally an important variable that we focus on in Action 90 is recovery levels. We test our RHR on day one and through out the Action 90 program, on day 90 we test again after a little fit test and the results are positively drastic!
As a coach I look at the RHR for a few reasons:1.) an indication of fitness / activity level / training target heart rate
2.) how strong your heart is; the healthier the individual the less the heart has to beat because the heart has enough strength to pump out more blood in one beat (less fit, more beats per min)
3.) overtraining & illness; taking your resting heart rate in the morning a few times per week can indicate with a larger RHR your stressed, overtrained or starting to get sick. (chill out for a couple days)
4.) health and recovery improvement; the more you involve physical activity, healthy eating and a positive way of live, your RHR will start to lower and you will feel great. Additionally an important variable that we focus on in Action 90 is recovery levels. We test our RHR on day one and through out the Action 90 program, on day 90 we test again after a little fit test and the results are positively drastic!
How do you find your RHR: when you wake up in the morning, sit back and relax for another 2-3min and then take your heart rate via, radial (wrist) or carotid (neck) for 1min by pressing gently on either of these sites. Take for three days straight and use the average.
*Keep track of your RHR each week or every other week of your training cycle, this will help you keep on track avoiding overtraining and illness.
*Keep track of your RHR each week or every other week of your training cycle, this will help you keep on track avoiding overtraining and illness.
What does my RHR mean: Look at the charts below and see where your at today.
source: AHA American Heart Association
4 comments:
Andrea RHR - 66+60+55=60.3
Lorna RHR 65.1
Kat
63-61-59
ave= 61
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