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Your resting heart rate is the heart pumping the lowest amount of blood you need because youâre not exercising. If youâre sitting or lying and youâre calm, relaxed and arenât ill, your heart rate is normally between 60 (beats per minute) and 100 (beats per minute). But a heart rate lower than 60 doesnât necessarily signal a medical problem. It could be the result of taking a drug such as a beta blocker.
A normal resting heart rate should be between 60 and 100 beats per minute. A rate of more than 90 is, however, considered high. 1  The resting heart rate of well trained endurance athletes can be between 40 and 60 beats per minute. 2  Test your rate over a few days to get an average. One basic method is just subtract your age from 220. 2  So if you are 30, your maximum heart rate will be approximately 190 beats per minute. 3  This method is considered more accurate for those under 40. 4  A slightly more complicated recent method is to multiply your age by 0.7, and then subtract that figure from 208.