Originally Posted by
Chaco
Get your resting heart rate when you are truly at rest, e.g. right after you get out of bed. Test it for a few days in a row to get a good reading.
That may be hard to do as the computer is attached to my bike...and as much as I love my bike I share a strictly platonic relationship with it and it doesn't go anywhere near my bedroom!
Originally Posted by
Chaco
As you train, it may drop significantly. Mine dropped from 69 to around 51 (I'm 59 yrs. old). Your max should be somewhere around 175 or so, but that varies from person to person. And that will go down every year (even Lance Armstrong's max decreased every year), while your resting heart rate may remain the same.
I'll keep an eye on the figures. I'm not to serious about them at the moment, using the HRM more as a gimick ATM.
Thanks for the replies peoples.
