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Long term RHR in an ex athlete (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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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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[–] saturnonice 2 points 1 year ago

I almost completely stopped running for like 6 years and my rhr increased quite a bit (to about 60). started running seriously again 3 years ago and down to 50 atm. So at least in my case it didn't stay low...