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This may be a bit off-topic, but I thought someone might know. I have just started to use a gym for gentle cardio stuff and yesterday for the first time borrowed one of their heart rate monitors that straps round your chest and tells the machine what your heart rate is. I was shocked to see that mine started at about 100 (though I had cycled to the gym so that wasn't a totally resting rate) and very quickly went up to 145/150 even with fairly moderate exertion. If I had worked as hard as I did when I didn't know, I'm sure it would have gone much higher. The weird thing is that I felt fine, though - the previous visit I'd been quite chuffed that I could still run short intervals without feeling exhausted.
I'm 56, 62.25 kg, not very fit but not very overweight either, and none of it round my tummy.
Now, I was pretty overtired and a bit stressed out yesterday. I had a really early night and this morning on waking my pulse was about 85 and my bp has been between 109/77 and 124/88. Just walking around puts it up to 99/100, though
I haven't had any reason to measure my HR for at least a couple of years, but it was always somewhere in the 70s. Now I probably am very unfit - is that likely to be all it is? Or are these numbers enough to worry about?
I'm hoping to see the doctor this week but I'm wondering if this is more normal for my age than I think it is.
I'm 56, 62.25 kg, not very fit but not very overweight either, and none of it round my tummy.
Now, I was pretty overtired and a bit stressed out yesterday. I had a really early night and this morning on waking my pulse was about 85 and my bp has been between 109/77 and 124/88. Just walking around puts it up to 99/100, though
I haven't had any reason to measure my HR for at least a couple of years, but it was always somewhere in the 70s. Now I probably am very unfit - is that likely to be all it is? Or are these numbers enough to worry about?
I'm hoping to see the doctor this week but I'm wondering if this is more normal for my age than I think it is.