Just went back to hospital for the last proper follow up from my jaw op (got my lower jaw enlarged by 22mm, pics on request, not nice ).

Apparently before/after the op my heartbeat was a steady 54, dropping to 52 during recovery. (during op its raised due to the stuff they pump into you to stop you from dying).

Apparently it was worth a mention on my chalkboard??

I know I do a lot of mountainbiking (a LOT of aerobic work in biking), and that when I'm fully warmed up and riding a steady pace with some mates on the mountains I never get out of breath or even hear my heart, wheras if I'm running I am dripping in sweat and out of breath and heart pumpint at god knows what pace).

Just wondering if 52bpm is maybe too low???

MY pressure is good, but sometimes I can feel my heart ACTUALLY skipping beats, and when I was hooked up it would miss every now and then.

Just makes me a bit worried thats all

the mrs thinks it's ok for fit healthy person who maintains that rate normally

what about missing beats? is that normal???

sometimes it actually hurts

doc reckons I'm fine, I reckon I'm dying!!!!

I had to do a scientific research report at college to judge the effect of exercise on the heart rate. Just had a look at it, and of the three people involved (me and two girls) two of us had a resting rate of 66 bpm and the other girl's rate was 72 bpm.

So I'd say that 54/ 52 bpm is low, but not dangerously. It could also signify that you are very fit, as of the three of us who took part in the project one of us smoked, one was overweight, two were mothers and one was over 35 years old.

If you don't suffer from light headedness when getting up quickly or feel faint when resting you should be fine. Perhaps you are very fit, and it's always better to have a low heart bpm than a high one.

As for the 'skipping' a beat, I think everyone's does this occasionally. Mine sometimes seems to 'flutter', feeling like it actually stops for a few beats then starts again with a bit of a jolt. Only does this when I'm in bed though, never notice it during the day.

If your doctor says you're fine after tests then I really wouldn't worry

I used to get light headed, but not anymore.

Mine is the opposite!!!!!!!! When I joined the gym they told me my "resting" heartbeat was too fast. It was 143bpm. They thought the machine had broken, and checked it again and again and it was still fast. After a trip to Doctors/Hospital etc it was 93bpm and they told me not to worry.. Meh...Que Sera sera for me!

your bpm is so low because you have trained your heart, just like any muscle if you train it, it will become more efficient therefore having to beat less.

if you train your heart it will become bigger aswell as any other muscles in your body. if you heart is bigger it that means the ammount of blood pumped per beat is going to be larger, also its going to increase your VO2 max which is the ammount of oxygen taken in

so eveidently your BPM is perfectly fine

keep training

Rikki

My resting is 47 bpm. Don't panic as it's usually a good sign. I have heard of a marathon runner who's is 38 bpm, that's almost comatose.

The tour de France rider's heartbeat's are about 35 BPM or something like that It just means their hearts are ultra economical and healthy. Not sure if in your case it means you are superfit or perhaps a heart problem? I wouldn't have thought so. Mine's about 60 and I'm overweight!

cheers for the backup!!!

I haven't been out on bike in 4months!!!! Heart must keep more or less the same fitness/stength/capacity, unless i was to block it up with lots of slimey collestral:yuck:

i went for a check up the other day and the doctor thought something was wrong with me as my resting heart rate was 45bpm but everything was ok. i play a lot of football and up till recently used to go for a run everyday.

Mine was never lower than 50 but under light excercise it hardly changed from rest. My results were discounted from a biology survey at school as they thought I'd measured it wrong.. well actually my mum is a nurse and she'd took my heart rate!

Lance Armstrong, 29bpm. Don't panic. Me, old fart, 62bpm and I'm a regular at the doctor cos I've had my first heart attack.

Cheers

D

do you get to put dashs on the side of your car for the number of heartattacks/ cancereous regions??

I know resting heartrate isn't much of a sign of whether your gonna have an attack or not, even the fittest people just drop dead/nearly dead every once in a while. It is quite random, although one thing I'll say, though's bums in their free houses who never worked a real days hard work in their WHOLE life tend to live the longest.

My mates dad died a few years back from a bowl cancer, it wasn't pleasent, and he was possibly one of the worlds greatest dads. Yet the scum that lived a few doors down from them (probably never even worked half a day in their whole life) is still sat there, not a single medical problem. It sucks.

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Yet the scum that lived a few doors down from them (probably never even worked half a day in their whole life) is still sat there, not a single medical problem. It sucks.

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Ah, but they do have a medical problem. They're clinically BRAIN DEAD! You really can't have a brain if you want to do nothing with your life and watch daytime TV like 'Trishia' and stuff all day, every day :shakehead:

seicentaff said:

your bpm is so low because you have trained your heart, just like any muscle if you train it, it will become more efficient therefore having to beat less.

if you train your heart it will become bigger aswell as any other muscles in your body. if you heart is bigger it that means the ammount of blood pumped per beat is going to be larger, also its going to increase your VO2 max which is the ammount of oxygen taken in

so eveidently your BPM is perfectly fine

keep training

Rikki

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couldnt of put it better myself... so i wont

basically the lower your resting heart rate, the better.... last time i read up on it the national average was somewhere in the rejoin of 73!

so anything below that is a bonus