more end of season stuff...

[Stu Merckx Man]

after a hard seasons training, just Curios to know peoples resting heart rates?
sorry if the scale is not big enough.

(beats per minute)

stu..

[Stu Merckx Man]

whos is below 39??

cheers,
stu

[Bo-Gilly]

Lance Armstrong 32-34 bpm

Go to http://www.lancearmstrong.com/ and click on key stats



Although I didn't know he got to vote on the Addiscombe forum

[Stu Merckx Man]

there just super human those tour de france riders !


some indian yoga monks, can lower there heart rate to 2 beats per minute !! (though from meditation, not countless miles of cycling) i remember reading it in a martial arts book...though how reliable it is i do not know

stu

[kieran]

haven't measured mine for ages, last time somewhere around 45 if I remember rightly, maybe I'll wear the hrm belt tonight!

[Dr Frigo]

I'm at an unfair disadvantage there - don't think I've seen mine dip below 56 at wake-up!

I've often wondered what I could do to make this particular muscle function more efficiently - endurance or high intensity work? More running maybe? Toks! Help!

[Toks]

[quote]I'm at an unfair disadvantage there - don't think I've seen mine dip below 56 at wake-up!

I've often wondered what I could do to make this particular muscle function more efficiently - endurance or high intensity work? More running maybe? Toks! Help!

[Stu Merckx Man]

also i think the average is 72, so your still well below

stu

[Dr Frigo]

Maybe if I hold my breath for long enough ...

[Steve B]

Sylv, you can breathe out now

[Steve B]

If I remember correctly, Miguel Indurain had a resting heart rate of 29.
It must have been the size of a large melon!

[Bo-Gilly]

Syl - marathon runner Frank Shorter, apparently had a resting heart rate of 75 bpm !
Guess he must of been pretty fit.

Stu - I saw my chinese buddhist master today - Dr Chi Kin Po, and asked him about the heart rate of meditating monks. He didn't have a figure but said they can average two breaths per minutes, and when they meditate they believe that they temporarily die - in the "clinicall dead" sense. Apparently when they're old and their time has come, they go to meditate for a final time and are found passed away in the lotus position.

I know that some 'free divers' claim their heart rate can drop to 7 bpm, a combination of training (deep relaxation) and the effects of holding your breath and being emersed in cold water - the bodys' attempt to self-preservation against drowning.



The outer columns of a temple have great strength , but it is the emptiness, inside the temple that gives them their purpose - that is the taoist way

[Rob]

[quote]The outer columns of a temple have great strength , but it is the emptiness, inside the temple that gives them their purpose - that is the taoist way

[John Cochrane]

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"whos is below 39??"

In my teens (when I was fit) 33/35bpm. Now in my 60's (very unfit) up at 45/47bpm. I think this may be a genetic thing, not just a reflection of fitness. My mother is now 86 years old and has a resting heart rate of 60bpm!!