What is a resting heart rate?
This is the least amount of blood your heart is pumping while youre awake.
What can your resting heart rate tell you about your health?
Your resting heart rate reflects how hard your heart works when youre quietly sitting and relaxed.
Dont measure your resting heart rate when youre anxious or under stress.
If you want to help your heart rate come back to baseline, consider doing abreathing exercise.
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Multiple other factors affect resting heart rate, including age, weight, and fitness level.
It can also depend on your overall health.
What is a normal heart rate?
Heart rate is measured in the number of beats per minute (BPM).
According to theAmerican Heart Association, a healthy resting heart rate for adults ranges from 60 to 100 BPM.
How does resting heart rate vary by age?
According to data from theU.S.
After that, the average adult male heart rate holds pretty steady at about 71 beats per minute.
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A sleeping heart rate is just what it sounds likeyour heart rate when youre sleeping.
What can your normal sleeping heart rate tell you about your health?
According to Dr. Basit, a normal sleeping heart rate in adults ranges from 40 to 100 BPM.
Sleeping heart rate fluctuates throughout the night, based on the stage of sleep youre in.
Dreaming can also have an impact.
Sleeping heart rate encompasses the entire trend of heartbeats, as one cycles through different sleep stages.
When you fall asleep you enter non-REM (light sleep).
Your sleeping heart rate continues to fall as you enter deeper stages of sleep.
While we sleep, the body relaxes, and our body temperature drops.
Our nervous system switches from a fight-or-flight system to a system that focuses on energy conservation and system repair.
Our built-in pacemaker can sense these changes and tells the heart to beat slower, explains Dr. Basit.
Once you start dreaming, though, your sleeping heart rate may spike.
Why is my sleeping heart rate higher than my resting heart rate?
you’re free to use a heart rate monitor,fitness tracker, or other verified gadget.
(As mentioned, somewearable deviceswill also track your sleeping heart rate if you wear them at night.)
Can you improve your heart rate?
Good words to live by.
Just like any other muscle, you could improve your heart by working it.
And no, that doesnt mean falling in and out of love.
It does mean exercising regularly and aerobically if youre not already doing so.
Dr. Basit recommends fitting in sustained, regular exercise for 30 to 45 minutes each day.
Reducing or managing stress, and eatingheart-healthy food, can also help lower both resting and sleeping heart rates.
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