Your heart rate, or pulse, is the number of times your heart beats per minute.
The best places to find your pulse are the:wrists
inside of your elbow
side of your neck
top of the foot
To get the most accurate reading, put your finger over your pulse and count the number of beats in 60 seconds
Your resting heart rate is the heart pumping the lowest amount of blood you need because you’re not exercising. If you’re sitting or lying and you’re calm, relaxed and aren’t ill, your heart rate is normally between 60 (beats per minute) and 100 (beats per minute),
A slow heart rate can be a sign that you're healthy and fit.
An athlete's heart muscle is in better shape, so it doesn't have to work as hard to keep up a steady beat.
How Other Factors Affect Heart Rate
Air temperature: When temperatures (and the humidity) soar, the heart pumps a little more blood, so your pulse rate may increase, but usually no more than five to 10 beats a minute.
Body position: Resting, sitting or standing, your pulse is usually the same. Sometimes as you stand for the first 15 to 20 seconds, your pulse may go up a little bit, but after a couple of minutes it should settle down.
Emotions: If you’re stressed, anxious or “extraordinarily happy or sad” your emotions can raise your pulse.
Body size: Body size usually doesn’t usually change pulse. If you’re very obese, you might see a higher resting pulse than normal, but usually not more than 100.
Medication use: Meds that block your adrenaline (beta blockers) tend to slow your pulse, while too much thyroid medication or too high of a dosage will raise it.
Heart Beat Vs BloodPressure
Sometimes your heart rate and your blood pressure go hand in hand.
For example, when you exercise, or get angry or scared, they both go up.
But they're not always linked. If your heart rate is normal, your blood pressure may not be. It could be too high or too low, and you may not realize it.
Even if your heart rate seems fine, get your blood pressure checked regularly.
- Normal Heart Beat Should be between 60-90 beats per minute.
- But for Athelets it would be 40 beats per minute.
- we can hold our Wrist with thumb and count the Pulses for 20 seconds with a timer set.Then Multiple with 3 for the count you get, which results the Heart beats per minute of yours.
