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My resting heartbeat is apparentlyreally high?

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sowstochd
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today during lab afterschool for bio, one of the trials we had to do was take our resting heartbeat (beats per minute), then take our haertbeat after one full minute of jumping jacks, since we previously did things like this in bio and my teacher wouldnt believe that it was that high (she told me i mustv been counting wrong) i told her i got 103 for resting, and she again didnt believe me so she took it and she started shaking her head and she was like "its 108" and gave me a blank stare. so then i took it after doing one minute of full jumping jacks and i got 177. is this like really bad? whats your guys'?

        and for the record im 15

Dec 12 2007 9:33PM
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hype
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mine was just 60
Dec 14 2007 7:17PM
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samskisalot
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how long did you wait between moving, and checking your resting hr? cause walking or just moving for a little bit could shoot it up to 100 or so. check it in the morning when your still in bed. this is the most accurate time to do a resting HR. 60-70 is normal. for endurance athletes, it can get down to 30-40, for fat people it can get up to 80-90.
Dec 14 2007 7:27PM
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sowstochd
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i wanted to get accurate results so i went to the nurse yesterday, and she made me sit down for a couple min, then she took it, and got 93
Dec 15 2007 12:16AM
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aussieskier
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Its a relaxent therfore relaxes my muscles and my heart is a muscle so it slows the heart rate.
Dec 15 2007 12:31AM
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fillup
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same
Dec 15 2007 12:32AM
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49566738265
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Well if you got 177 you were probably wrong, that is almost max heart rate for a lot of people.  103 would have been reasonable after a few sets of jumping jacks.
Dec 15 2007 12:44AM
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Nick1234
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177 isn't particularly ridiculous having just done jumping jacks, higher than i would expect, but not shocking.  as for your resting heart rate, theres a whole ton of factors, some that people have mentioned, but even stuff like caffeine, sugar, stress, those will all raise your heart rate.  as for 'working out', lifting weights isn't gonna help cardio if that's what you mean, if you do some cardio type stuff 3 times a week, then, well your heart rate is super high
Dec 15 2007 10:38AM
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charmander
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yea, im 5'7" 150 and my resting heartbeat was like 57 when i broke my arm so...
you might just be fat
Dec 15 2007 10:39AM
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anxju
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that isnt healthy dude.... your max heart rate is 205 (220-age).... 120 is like what i get when working out and im like 70 normal.... stop eating fatty foods and go running, lifting weights wont do much
Dec 15 2007 12:31PM
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skiEER
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yeah there is no way that is true
Dec 15 2007 5:07PM
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Avifarer
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my resting heartbeat is really high right now.
i just looked under my parents bed and saw arv's
Dec 15 2007 7:59PM
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Alex_G
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If you work out and just lift weights, then start doing some running. If you run you will get your cardio going and that could fix it. If not, then I don't know what to tell you.
Dec 15 2007 8:17PM
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TheQuailman
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did you ask your teacher?  If she didn't know if that was good, bad, or whatever, then shes an idiot. Ask a doctor, school nurse, or athletic trainer, don't ask NS.

Dec 15 2007 10:28PM
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ButteredToast.
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haha lucky bastard
Dec 16 2007 5:12PM
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shagalabagala
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okay claim coming up...  i got 43

an it was at the doctor's office so don't say i did it wrong
Dec 16 2007 6:57PM
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