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12 Months to Marathon - Episode 58 - How to Improve Resting Heart Rate
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Let’s start with the basics: resting heart rate is how many times your heart beats per minute when you’re completely at rest, ideally, first thing in the morning before you even get out of bed.
For most adults, RHR ranges from 60 to 100 bpm.
For runners and endurance athletes, it's often in the 50s or 40s; for elite athletes, it's even lower. Sometimes as low as the 30s.
So what does a lower resting heart rate mean?
It means your heart is strong. It can pump more blood with each beat, so it doesn’t have to work as hard when you're resting.
It’s linked to:
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