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Resting Heart Rate
After seeing Pivot Mach 5 resting heart rate I thought I should measure mine as I haven't measured it for over 12 months. I had stopped riding in March 09 due to work and didn't start up until about November 09 so I had no idea what to expect. I did a quick test on the lounge which had it at about 49bpm. I then wore the HRM while sleeping last night and below is the profile. It looks blank but the Heart Rate tab has the info. Also amazingly I gained 27m elevation, no wonder I wake up tired 
Using Sporttracks I had a low of 36bpm and woke up with a jolt as the dog woke me up.
I will call my resting rate about 48bpm which put the quick test on the lounge pretty accurate
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If you had a cadence reading (while sleeping) I would be concerned!
I wonder if those HR spikes are to do with your actually sleep cycle or the monitor is slightly wonky i.e. the elevation gain...
I would say the spikes are me as my heart rate increases so easily.
Do we have a 35 in the house?
I'm tempted to do mine when I'm asleep just to see...
I just did it to see how close the test was when I was awake which ended up being pretty spot on.
Thought I would just update my history with another test of my resting heart rate. Did this just laying on the lounge for 5 minutes. Back in February I wore it while asleep and made the call it was 48bpm and it still is. One thing I do notice now though is it is very steady. While typing this it is 52bpm and only varying up and down by 1 bpm.
This was taken end of November 2010 when I'd been injured for quite some time and not training, think I can do better
Can't quite match pivot though - reckon he must have faulty equipment
Resting heart rate is one thing but the speed to get there (recovery) is another and is harder to record. Pivot, you would know this stuff, is there a way to quantify "fitness" with the speed of HR recovery say from MAX?
35 isn't sleeping, this is sleeping - 31
I thought (but don't quote me) cardio fitness is the ability to recover quickly but also how stable your heart rate is at rest.
Dunno really, probably. If that's the case though I must be pretty unfit looking at my graph. Either that or I'm having some pretty frootie dreams
Whilst completely rested in bed and it's around 60!!!!
Is there something wrong with me?
Gazza:
Hmmm... where to begin?
Thanks Mate!
Hey gazza, to tell the truth you can't really compare HR with other people. There would only be an issue with 60bpm if that's not what you normally are.
i'll maybe sleep with my monitor on one night.
watch this space...
Average 195bpm... for 45min.
I have hit 211 in a sprint, and can get over 200 and hold it.
Resting is high 40s.
Full ride (lap 4):
@tate. Yeah, nice... I could do that 20 years ago too
Playing squash though, not cycling. Sprint, sprint, sprint...
Thats truely awesome! the only time i had my HR that high was on sudafed many moons ago. Guess i won't be racing you anytime soon tate
Avg 195bpm for 45mins = We're not worthy
Top effort!
yeah im not sure if its a good thing or not, but it certainly makes the numbers easy! five heart rate zones: 120, 140, 160, 180, 200.
averaged 180 at dirtworks, for 5hours. felt it at the end though! i might try and pace myself a little better this year...
After reading about all this supreme fitness from you guys - i had to check my own resting (well just before i went to sleep anyway) HR. Turns out that 34, wait, 46, wait no, 54 was the lowest i could get it.... I agree with the recovery HR as being quite important - and also harder to measure (do you establish a baseline resting HR, work it up to a universal number say Base plus 100, and record how long it takes to get back to resting HR ( plus 10 - because getting back to the original low resting rate MAY be only achievable when you are asleep.))
EG Baseline HR 50
Quick work out - up to 150HR
Time how long it takes to get to 60 HR
(50 + 100 - 90)
Just a thought...
Oh and i did get my HR down to 24 BPM once - that was courtesy of an inflight "incident" and ended with a stint in hospital... Not a good feeling...
After letting myself go really badly at xmas....I thought it might be a good idea to get a baseline for the coming training to lose the 6kg I gainined in as many weeks.
6mins lying down avg. was 70bpm. room for improvement. what struck me was the amount of variation.
Has your pacemaker hung?
I think to go much lower I need Michael Jacksons Doctor oh and my wife thinks I am a nut now for wearing my Heart Rate strap to bed
@Black Flash, a mate told me that to do a heart rate recovery (HRR) test you just get HR up high, I'm talking closer to max (which for me is 180ish) then stop and rest, noting the HR at 30 seconds and 60 seconds. I seem to recall something about if the HR drops 50 beats (ie to 130ish for me) in a minute you're reasonably fit. I've only ever done this test with running as it's easier to see your heart rate getting high and to be able to stop quickly and rest while HR recovers. No doubt there's a lot more educated fitness buffs on here than me that can provide more detail on HRR but hopefully this helps. (I should add that I am giving this advice after 3 months off the bike after stupidly trying to train for an event through a chest infection that then just got nastier and nastier and wouldn't go away, still coughing now!!)
I'll have to give that a go one day...
And NorcoNut - nice numbers at night... : )