Are there any elite sportsman who have a lower heartbeat than this?. I think I remember reading that there were some elite TDF cyclists who had lower than this but they were the exception.
Dunno whether you'd call him "elite" but Hal Higdon was certainly national level BITD. I think he once wrote about his pulse's cruising along at 32 or 33 bpm.
At a lower level, a very good Ivy League runner, Dan Predmore, was known to have a resting pulse of 28. And I believe that several (a dozen or more?) LRCers have posted in previous threads about having pulses lower than 36.
OTOH Jim Ryun was widely reported to have a resting pulse in the 70s. People are different.
Biathlete Martin Fourcade had 25 bpm
36 doesn't sound that special
This is extremely common for elite runners. I am not one, but at my peak as a 1:50.xx 800 runner, my resting heart rate was 42. Now, it's still 47ish, and I don't think I could break 2:05 for an 800 or run a 19:00 5K. It would not at all surprise me if every single Olympian in the distant events has a resting heart rate below 40.
Miguel indurain had 26 in testing heart rate i belive, and i guess alot of pro cyclists are in the low 30’s
Miguel Indurain was listed around 28 bpm.
Ghost. I generally appreciate your posts but this isn’t even close to incredible. My RHR gets almost that low (37) and I’m some random hobby jogger who runs 60 miles a week. Wanders does a lot of incredible things but this is about as mundane as saying his favorite color is blue.
Agreed. Before this post is relegated to page 2, there will be lots of posters on here with a very similar RHR including this old man runner.
highhoppingworm wrote:
Ghost. I generally appreciate your posts but this isn’t even close to incredible. My RHR gets almost that low (37) and I’m some random hobby jogger who runs 60 miles a week. Wanders does a lot of incredible things but this is about as mundane as saying his favorite color is blue.
Ok, I stand corrected and sorry for the hyperbole if it seems that way.
i’m just wondering if there’s a point of no return where the resting heart rate is so low that it is counterproductive to an elite athlete’s health overall and longevity?
2:16 marathoner and my RHR was 32 bpm.
Ghost1 wrote:
highhoppingworm wrote:
Ghost. I generally appreciate your posts but this isn’t even close to incredible. My RHR gets almost that low (37) and I’m some random hobby jogger who runs 60 miles a week. Wanders does a lot of incredible things but this is about as mundane as saying his favorite color is blue.
Ok, I stand corrected and sorry for the hyperbole if it seems that way.
i’m just wondering if there’s a point of no return where the resting heart rate is so low that it is counterproductive to an elite athlete’s health overall and longevity?
This has definitely been studies. You max out the effects of a low heart rate somewhere in the low-to-mid 30s. Falling below 30 is actually kind of dangerous.
Some references here if you scroll down to the end of the wiki article and you see all the links.
Chill guy wrote:
2:16 marathoner and my RHR was 32 bpm.
Is a low heart rate synonymous with a longer life and better health overall because I cannot find any research which shows that link? Does the very low heart rate start going up when you are not trained?
highhoppingworm wrote:
Ghost. I generally appreciate your posts but this isn’t even close to incredible. My RHR gets almost that low (37) and I’m some random hobby jogger who runs 60 miles a week. Wanders does a lot of incredible things but this is about as mundane as saying his favorite color is blue.
I am guessing you are a competitive age group runner trying to still run hard and run personal best times otherwise it would seem curious to run as much as 60 miles per week which is a lot of running in the grand scheme of things.
I’d be surprised if a lot of so-so runners (and other very fit people) don’t have resting HRs this low. My brother and I were good runners, but not winning national championships or anything like that, and we both had resting HRs in the low-mid 30s.
Little Dicky Pound wrote:
I’d be surprised if a lot of so-so runners (and other very fit people) don’t have resting HRs this low. My brother and I were good runners, but not winning national championships or anything like that, and we both had resting HRs in the low-mid 30s.
I listened to an interview of Joe Klecker recently and he said his resting heart rate was in the low 40s but he pointed out that was at altitude.
Ghost you sound like a newcomer to the sport.
Back in the day, my resting heart rate was 38.
I remember reading something that Paavo Nurmi's resting heart rate was 19. Don't remember where I read it.
Wikipedia has a citation that Nurmi had ""a freakish heart" with a very low pulse rate".
I used to have a resting heart rate in the mid 30s, and I could barely break 17 minutes for 5k.
I remember hearing Jim Ryun had a resting heart rate of ~ 70
I am 50. I run 5k in 17:30 and resting heart rate is 35. I used to run 14:30 30 years ago and heart rate was exactly the same. I guess it must be the high end that limits performance but I never check it in workouts.