what is the absolute LOWEST resting heartrate that a runner can have?

My resting heart rate is -2. It's travels back in time.

When I was a soph in college in 1977 I remember taking my pulse in the morning fairly often before I got out of bed. I was a 31:09 10k guy at the time and the lowest I got was 38. I was fairly well muscled though - 6' 1 1/2" and 168 pounds. Never took my pulse with heart monitor while sleeping, but guess it was probably in the low 30s.

When I was in high school, my resting heart rate was in the mid 20s when I would check during class. I would guess it was probably low 20s at full rest while I was asleep. Measured at the doc at 26 one time and the nurse started to panic because she thought I was dying...haha. Freshman year of college, my VO2 was measured at 78.

16 flat guy wrote:

How is this a pissing contest wrote:

I like how everyone is lieing through their teeth.

Maybe .1% of the population has a RHR under 40, yet 85% of this thread does?

Sure.

Much fewer than .1% of the population has a 5k PR of under 16. Yet would you be surprised if 50% of the posters on this thread did?

I would be infinitely more surprised if half the board had a 5k PR under 16 minutes than if half the board had a RHR under 40.

RHR doesn't matter. Max HR doesn't matter, Studies have shown that neither correlates with performance.

But heart rate reserve (max minus min) correlates with VO2max at ~90% confidence ratio.

The better question to be asking is what was your heart rate while watching Galen Rupp take silver?

Migueltheman wrote:

Miguel Indurain had a 28. Other cyclist died from too low HR when hopped up on EPO so 30 is prolly the limit.

Indurain was on some good crap in when he won his tours. I never forget the TT when he blew by and I mean blew by Lance Armstrong beating him by 5 and 1/2 mins or something. Maybe 93 or 94

Pewow wrote:

The better question to be asking is what was your heart rate while watching Galen Rupp take silver?

I'm not very high on watching 12.9 guys make believe they're fast. So I watched the real athletes that day, then turned the TV off when the 10K joggers came on.

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I know a lot of runners, it's generally accepted there is very little correlation between resting and performance. Mine was 48 first thing in the morning when I was sub 15. MV02 was 78. Sub 40 is pretty rare. I heard Jim Ryan had a resting of only 72.

coach d wrote:

I'm not very high on watching 12.9 guys make believe they're fast. So I watched the real athletes that day, then turned the TV off when the 10K joggers came on.

30 years ago when I was a 2:27 marathoner my resting pulse was 32. Now at age 61 it was 45 when I measured it a few days ago. It may be correlated to the fact that I only weigh 135 despite being 5'11" tall.

My fathers resting heart rate was recorded by sports doctors as 26, so it was likely to dip lower in less stressful situations. He was in his 40s at the time.

Resting heart rate 40, 6' 3" 180 lbs , couple hours of cardio per day. Max rate of 163 on a 15 minute Bruce stress test.

My lowest is 36. Max of 200. When I was a teen I maxed at 211 and rhr was 38. My 55+ year old dad who rides a bike a couple of times a week can max out at 195+ and has a rhr around 45-46. He literally couldn't run a mile without stopping, though. Seriously.Hr has nothing to do with anything and asserting that we're somehow lying about our hrs is just comical. Like it matters at all? If it doesn't mean anything, why does it matter if it's 35 or 55? Has nothing to do with performance.

How is this a pissing contest wrote:

I like how everyone is lieing through their teeth.

Maybe .1% of the population has a RHR under 40, yet 85% of this thread does?

Sure.

When young and training for the 800m, my hear-rate was regulary 41-42 bpm when rested and using some bio-feedback and really relaxing I recorded it at 36-38 or so a couple of times for a minute test.

My dads got down to 27 when an old guy and had a minor stroke because of it. They put in a pacemaker to keep his heart rate from going below 70. He said it was the first time in years his feet were warm. I guess he had had an inadequate heart rate for some time. Now myself being a bit overweight (40 lbs) and exercising just a little, I can still get my heart rate down to 48 if I really try (52 or so at normal rest). I wonder if I might have some of the same tendencies as my dad. I'm 51 years old.

Marty McFly wrote:

My resting heart rate is -2. It's travels back in time.

LOL!!

who gives a crap about this? it doesnt matter and after a while - everyone's heart rate will be the same.