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Originally Posted by kathy
Ok I know I'm going to sound foolish but I have a really hard time gtting my resting heart rate while still in bed. Is taking it at the gym about an hour after getting up a total waste of my time. I get to the gym 6 mornings a week adn workout on either the treadmill or elipitcal.
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Taking it an hour after waking up will not give a 'true' reflection of resting heart rate, since you will have been up and moving around for quite a while; but it will give you some idea of what your heart rate is, remembering that from seated to standing the rate can alter by 20 beats. Try sitting up in bed and waiting 5 minutes and then taking it. I have problems taking mine because I apparently have an irregular regular heartbeat...I know that sounds odd, but it just means that mine beats 3 times and then skips a beat, and then beats 3 more times, skips a beat etc etc...so, to get an accurate measurement of mine I use a blood pressure monitor, one that just straps on to the wrist...that seems to work for me. If I do a manual count, I normally just count either 10 or 15 secs and multiply it to get a minute.