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Long term RHR in an ex athlete (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/cycling

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/103924

Around 7 years ago, I was a sub elite runner, and I did a lot of cycling as cross training. My resting heart rate got incredibly low during that time.

However, these days, even though I'm relatively unfit, my resting HR pretty much hasn't come back up from where it was when I was an active athlete.

Has anyone else found something similar? It's easy to find active athletes with low resting HR, but I don't really see much discussion about what the long term change to HR is in ex athletes.

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[–] xohshoo 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

do you still exercise at all? I bet even a little might be enough to keep some of the adaptations as opposed to being completely sedentary.
Great find on that article, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I scored a bout of pneumonia just before covid hit in 2019, and I was basically sedentary for 2 years after that. That pushed my RHR in to the high 40s.

These days, I do exercise a little now and that has reduced my RHR back down to the low 40s. That's still higher than it was when I was an active athlete though